prayer warriors (following Jesus Christ, everyone welcome)

[Flock Master64]

@Flock Master64, this ones for you


HAPPY TRIALS

We’ve all heard the great cowboy song “Happy Trails,” right? Well, after a long day of working cattle and some not-so-happy events, I renamed this song “Happy Trials.” If you’ve ever worked with cattle, you know it can be very trying. In just one day I was kicked by a heifer and knocked to the ground, had fallen off the platform of the cattle tub, and knocked my elbow on the working chute. To top it off, I had this one cowboy yelling at me all day, ‘cause for some reason he thought he was in charge. I wanted to break his nose! Needless to say, I wasn’t a very happy person that day and it was one day I wished I never had to face.

Trials are inevitable. The world’s definition of happiness is the absence of trials, heartache, persecution, pain, death, and loss. And because of all of these trials, many people aren’t happy! Depression diagnoses are at the highest they’ve ever been. There’s suicide, divorce, and abandonment, all of which are high because people don’t know how to deal with the trials of life.

In today’s verse, the word “blessed” literally means happy, but not in the sense that the world views happiness. The Lord’s definition of “blessed” or “happiness” is not the absence of trials, but the victory over them.

If by the Lord’s strength we will endure and choose to face our trials with Him, we will overcome! We can’t get rid of trials, but we can find victory over them.

Philippians 4:13 tells us, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

CHEW ON THIS
Have you allowed your trials to steal your happiness? Are you living for the world’s definition of happiness or God’s?

PRAYER
Lord, help me find victory over my trials through you. Heal my pain and comfort me through the trials of life so that I can overcome! It’s in your holy name I pray, Amen.



Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
James 1:12 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jas.1.12.ESV

thanks

 

[ShrekDawg]

Lunch

Lol same

 

[yorkie6]

SO good to hear i have a fellow Christian on this site! I'm sorry for what your going through and will pray! Just keep holding on God can get you through this! You caught my eye by your user name and the fact that your fist name is the same as mine

I'm glad i have an opportunity to pray for you. Thank you for trusting our Savior!

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

SO good to hear i have a fellow Christian on this site! I'm sorry for what your going through and will pray! Just keep holding on God can get you through this! You caught my eye by your user name and the fact that your fist name is the same as mine

I'm glad i have an opportunity to pray for you. Thank you for trusting our Savior!

Welcome to the thread!!

 

[shortgrass]

Good morning peeps

I had to share something that was stuck on me yesterday.. funny how you can find Christ anywhere without even looking

And the devotion for the morning is directed at women, mothers... But feel free to replace the mom part with sister, brother, father, friend, it all works, everyone is a role model to someone





Who am I?

You are the determining factor in how a situation will go. How you think about life, what God has given you, who you are as a person, who your children are in God’s eyes, and what your purpose is will determine how quickly you can recover from a spill.

Do you know that there are only 940 Saturdays from the time your child is born until he or she is eighteen? And 260 of them are gone by your child’s fifth birthday. Waaahhh! I could cry just thinking about it. It is such a short amount of time. Let’s not waste it by blowing up over little things and letting spilled crackers ruin our days.

How do you think of life? Is it a gift? Do you thank God for it every single morning? Being aware of the value of life, both yours and your child’s, is essential to changing your attitude about hard situations. You can see even the spills as gifts. You get to stop whatever you’re doing and teach a lesson on whatever needs to be done to clean up the mess. You can spot a weak area in your child and make plans to work on that (as in, eats crackers when he’s supposed to be putting his shoes on). Every obstacle is an opportunity for something!

What has God given you? Oh my word, so much! If you are reading this, then you have been given more than most people in the whole world! Not because of this plan, but because you own any writings at all, because you can read, because you get to learn how to grow in your faith through freedom, because you have half an hour to spend on yourself, and the list goes on. See what God has given you? Ask Him to open your eyes. Everything around you is a gift, even the hard things.

Who are you? You are a child of the King, you were created for a purpose, you are blessed among women, you are beautiful and talented and amazing. You have the capability to be a light for this world through your faith, and you are a gift to your children.

Who are your children? Gifts, not just to you, but to the world. Your children can be world changers, life explorers, and hopefully Christ followers. They are special, brilliant, beautiful, and talented, and you are not the only one who sees that. God sees, other people see, and He is preparing a path for each of them filled with people who will serve their lives in some way. Don’t ever forget that you being their mom is only a part of their identities.

What is your purpose? In three words, to glorify God.



So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV
http://bible.com/59/1co.10.31.ESV


For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalms 139:13‭-‬16 ESV
http://bible.com/59/psa.139.13-16.ESV


But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:4‭-‬9 ESV
http://bible.com/59/eph.2.4-9.ESV

 

[ocap]

Bible hidden in songs:

SONS OF THE PIONEERS


Twilight On The Trail Lyrics


When it's twilight on the trail,
And I jog along,
The world is like a dream
And the ripple of the stream is my song

When it's twilight on the trail,
And I rest once more,
My ceiling is the sky
And the grass on which I lie is my floor . . .

Never ever have a nickel in my jeans,
Never ever have a debt to pay,
Still I understand what real contentment means,
Guess I was born that way . . .

When it's twilight on the trail,
And my voice is still,
Please plant this heart of mine
Underneath the lonesome pine on the hill . . .

( Underneath the lonesome pine on the hill . . . )
When it's twilight on the trail . . .



Philippians 4:11-13 New International Version (NIV)
11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

 

[AmySellersARt]

Hello! I am a new (EXCITED) member of BYC and stumbled upon the "Jesus Freak - Prayer Warrior"... YES!!!!! I'm so excited to share! Please excuse my burst of excitement and over-reaction.... I'm just happy to share my latest Christian paintings with your group! But, for some reason, I'm not seeing the upload photo icon?! If you are interested... I have 3 paintings in mind. The first is called "Recording Revelation" (with John the Apostle on the Island of Potmos). The second is the Book of Revelation (All 22 chapters in order of the book). The third is The Revelation of Jesus Christ. (This includes what has happened in the past 18 months). Go to my website and look in the Impressionist Section! (Or send me a message and I can email you). amysellersart.com

 

[Flock Master64]

Hello! I am a new (EXCITED) member of BYC and stumbled upon the "Jesus Freak - Prayer Warrior"... YES!!!!! I'm so excited to share! Please excuse my burst of excitement and over-reaction.... I'm just happy to share my latest Christian paintings with your group! But, for some reason, I'm not seeing the upload photo icon?! If you are interested... I have 3 paintings in mind. The first is called "Recording Revelation" (with John the Apostle on the Island of Potmos). The second is the Book of Revelation (All 22 chapters in order of the book). The third is The Revelation of Jesus Christ. (This includes what has happened in the past 18 months). Go to my website and look in the Impressionist Section! (Or send me a message and I can email you). amysellersart.com

I WANT TO SEEEEE. Post a link please.

 

[Flock Master64]

Oh yeah. Welcome to BYC

 

[AmySellersARt]