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May 29, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth.”  Ecclesiastes 3:1 This verse gets quoted at many different occasions in life.  Some are pleasant and others are difficult.  There is one that is the same for each of these occasions.  Each separate occasion gives […]

May 22, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way;  when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.  Wash! Cleanse yourselves!  Remove your sinful deeds  from my sight. Stop sinning! Learn to do what is right!  Promote justice!  Give […]

May 15, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “The expert in the law said to him, ‘That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.   And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your […]

May 8, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.”  II Tim. 1:5 As a parent, this has to be one of the greatest compliments you could ever hear.  Knowing that people have seen your faith […]

May 1, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem.  …  He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. … Ahab’s son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria.  He ruled for two years over Israel.  […]

April 24, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “Little children, guard yourselves from idols.”   I John 5:21  NET The translation above is the usual translation and very literal.  Most of us think of something carved or molded into an image to represent a deity as an idol.  We would next include things like money, position, or power in […]

April 3, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.  For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are living according to the truth.  I have […]

March 20, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “This law scroll must not leave your lips! You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Then you will prosper  and be successful.”  Joshua 1:8 There is a lot more scripture for us to meditate on and memorize than just the […]

March 13, 2016 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.  Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.”  Eph. 4:31-32 NET The difference that is seen in a life that characterizes verse 32 rather than verse […]

March 6, 2015 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends, “However, through all this you did not have confidence in the Lord your God,  the one who was constantly going before you to find places for you to set up camp. He appeared by fire at night and cloud by day, to show you the way you ought to go.”  Deuteronomy […]