May Prayer Focus
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Be Real
Be real when you pray. Let the real you show up to meet God.
Not the “you” you think people expect you to be. Pray that God’s will for you becomes your desire.
~Cheryl Craft
Alone with God
Time spent with family and our church friends is necessary and beneficial.
Yet there are times we need to leave them behind and get alone with God.
What does it mean to us to be alone with God?
- To always be surrounded by others drains our strength. We have to be alone to regain consciousness of who we are and our purpose. In our aloneness we sense our weakness and dependence on God. We need time alone to maintain our Christian life and to renew our power to influence men for God.
- When we are alone with God we face spiritual realities. We withdraw from things that are seen to things that are unseen. We yield ourselves to the power of the heavenly realm and allow it to work in us. We consider the power of God: how he overcame the evil world and how we also can live free from sin in the power of God. In this time spent in God’s presence we are transformed and conformed to His likeness.
- In our time alone with God, we are refreshed in spirit. We meditate on His word taking it into our minds and spirit. We receive strength to witness to others of His goodness we have experienced after we have spent time alone with God.
- To be alone with God is a privilege. We examine ourselves and ask for his wisdom and strength. He imparts to us all that His Word means and gives guidance and direction to our lives. He works in a moment of time, but it takes us awhile to lay off cares and burdens and allow Him time to work in us as we wait on Him alone.
Our flesh is always in a hurry irritated and agitated by daily life. It takes time alone with God to lay our flesh aside and become quiet and calm before Him. We master our flesh and its tendency to rule our time, when we enter into our prayer closet and close the door. I am reminded of this song we used to sing:
Shut in with God in a secret place.
There in the spirit beholding His face.
Gaining new power to run in this race.
I love to be shut in with God.
Step out of this world and into eternity. Take time to be alone with God.
~Cheryl Craft
A Prayer to Pray
Philippians 1:9-11
“And this I pray that your love may abound still more and more.”
in real knowledge and all discernment so that you may approve the things that are excellent in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.”
Paul is speaking to the Philippian church as well as all of us today and he desires that we grow in love which leads to knowledge and discernment. This allows all of us to make right life choices. In making right choices we will live blameless lives until the day Jesus returns. This is true because we produce righteousness in our lives through Jesus Christ.
He helps all of us in our life’s decisions. This brings glory and praise to God.
Book Suggestion: Love on Its Knees by Dick Eastman
Sincerely,
Cheryl Craft
Waiting on God
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Author: Andrew Murray
“Andrew Murray shares thirty-one heartfelt meditations, one for each day of the month, to help renew our vision and quicken our desire to turn to the Lord for His quiet, peaceful strength.”