Silent Treatment

Would you choose to go a day without talking to your husband? No matter how you feel toward your husband, you probably wouldn't. Going a day without speaking to him would damage your relationship! No one wants that to happen. On the contrary, you want to do everything possible to improve your relationship. And good communication is essential to strengthening your relationships!
How then can we expect to go a day without speaking to God and our relationship with Him not suffer? We must seek Him daily through prayer! Some form of the word pray is found over 300 times throughout the bible. Prayer is an essential part of our Christian walk! 
A few facts about prayer:

• God only hears the prayers of the righteous (Those who are saved)

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.(1 Peter 3:12)

 The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. (Prov 15:29)

• Pray at all time 

Pray without ceasing.(1 Thes 5:17)

• Pray that God's will be done

And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.(Mat 29:15) 

•  Have faith that God will answer your prayer

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.(Mark 11:24)

• Be humble 

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.(Luke 18:10-14)

• Give thanks

 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; (Col 4:2)

• Pray for others

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;(1 Thes 1:2) 

• It's okay to ask for prayers

Brethren, pray for us.(1 Thes 5:25) 

• Prayer works

 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.( James 5:16)

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Recovery Break

If you haven't seen my Facebook update, I'm in the hospital. I slipped in the mud and dislocated my ankle and broke my tibia and fibula in 3 places. I had surgery yesterday to insert plates and screws. Thankfully that went well. But I am still in a lot of pain. I am glad I have some pain because that means that I didn't damage my nerves. I just hope and pray it lessens soon.
I will be taking at least this week(through 2/17) off to focus on recovery and physical therapy.I may need longer than a week; I'll just have to wait and see how I feel.  No other posts-including the link up-will be made during this time. I have extended the dates available on Homemaking Link Up #28. So feel free to add more posts to last Friday's. I will choose one entry to feature whenever I get to feeling better 
I will be on bed rest for 3 weeks! I will have plenty of time to blog and fold laundry since that's the only "chore" I'll be able to do. I hate that I won't be able to get up and wash dishes, sweep, and scrub my counters. I enjoy taking care of my house. Thankfully my wonderful mother-in-law is flying out today to help us out during my recovery!  Thank you to everyone who prayed for me! I would appreciate prayers for a quick, full recovery without too much pain.  Thank you so much for stopping by! 

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Pray for Baby Webb

This is Webb Cannon, the grandson of a couple I have known all my life. He was born on May 21st, 2012. with Ventricular Septal Defect (a hole in his heart). Shortly after birth Webb had to have a pacemaker. Due to various complications he has spent all but a few days in the hospital. 

On August 31st, Webb had another set back. He suffered complete cardiac arrest.  After 70 minutes of CPR he was placed on an echmo machine. He has since been removed from this.

The doctors are unsure how much brain damage occured due to the length of time that CPR was needed. 

Today(September 11th) Webb will have surgey and have a pulmonary band placed. This will allow oxygen to go through the hole in his heart rather than the pulmonary artery and the hole. This is a temporary fix until his heart is strong enough to go on bypass. After recovery, he'll go to children's to begin therapy 

on his brain.

Webb and his family have gone through so much. Please keep them in your prayers during his surgery and recovery!

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They're Teaching Me

Via

I teach ages 4-6 during Wednesday night bible study. One of my favorite things about teaching, is hearing the boys pray. They don't know that through their prayers they're teaching me.

They are all so eager to pray. When I ask, "Who wants to lead a prayer tonight?" little hands shoot up, each one stretching as high as they can, and at least one voice calling "Me, me!". Are we this eager to pray or do we view it as a chore? Often times we are quick to turn to God when things aren't going quite the way we would like for them to. And there's nothing wrong with us seeking God's help with our problems.

"Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you." (1 Peter 5:7)

But are we as quick to talk with Him at other times? Or do we take for granted the blessing of being able to speak to him? We are so blessed that we have a "high priest that cannot be touched" so that we can "come boldly unto the throne of grace" (Hebrews 4:15-16).  We must not forget the cost He payed to intercede for us.

And then there's the words they pray. About 95% of their prayer is saying thank you. They're thankful for their family and friends, church, trees, the sick people to get better and us not to get sick. They mention everything they can think of and are sure to call out each classmates/friends by name. Do we thank God as often as we should? I know I don't and it's something I'm working on. So often we take our blessings for granted.

Last night one child thanked God for the air. Air is vital to our exsistance and yet I can't remember ever thanking God for it. It's so much easier to thank God for those things we can see. However, we need to thank God for all our blessings.

"In everything give thanks..." (1 Thessalonians 5:18)

Challenge: Every time you pray, thank God for something. And us people need thanks too! :) Give an unexpected thank you to someone each day.





Linking up with these blogs: A Mama's Story, Changed by the Maker, Raising Arrows, The Better Mom, The Modest Mom, Working Kansas Homemaker, What Joy is Mine