This Week With Jesus

As the day and this week draws to a close, we thank you for your love and guidance. Thank you for the blessings and challenges, and we look to your guidance, protection and provision for the coming week, in hope and faith. We are humbled by the vastness of Your creation and the diversity of Your people. We lift our hearts in prayer for the entire world, acknowledging Your sovereignty over all nations and peoples. We pray for peace to reign in every corner of the globe. May conflicts cease, and may understanding and compassion prevail. Touch the hearts of leaders and inspire them to seek peaceful solutions, fostering harmony and cooperation among nations. We pray for those suffering from injustice, poverty, and oppression. May Your divine hand bring relief to the afflicted and empower them to rise above their circumstances. Grant them strength, hope, and the resources they need to rebuild their lives. For a lady in Australia who will need to under cancer surgery next month For the Pasto...

Image contributed by Coral Keogh As the day and this week draws to a close, we thank you for your love and guidance. Thank you for the blessings and challenges. May we rest peacefully tonight, knowing that You are always with us. We lift up our hearts in prayer for all humanity. For Peace: May peace reign in every nation, and may conflict be resolved through dialogue and understanding. For Justice: May justice prevail, and may the oppressed find relief. For Healing: May the sick be healed, the wounded be comforted, and the brokenhearted be mended. For Love: May love abound, and may we learn to love our neighbors as ourselves. For Hope: May hope ignite the hearts of all, and may despair be replaced with faith. For a lady in Australia who will need to under cancer surgery next month For the Pastor in India who's wife needs your healing for her stage 4 cancer For a lady in India who need your healing and relief for her back pain For Jerry who was diagnosed with early-stage pancreas ...

And Jesus said : Come to the water Stand by My side. I know you are thirsty You won't be denied I felt ev'ry tear drop When in darkness you cried And I strove to remind you That for those tears I died Lord Jesus, you have called us and we have found you. You feel our pain, our joy and our challenges and are with us through it all. we thank you for providing us with parents who brought us to you. We pray for all those who have gone before us to you, parents, father, mother, husband, wife, aunts and uncles and friends, as we remember them not only today but every day. We thank you for our time with them. Thank You for the gift of this new day. May this Saturday be a day of rest, renewal, and peace. Fill our hearts with gratitude for the blessings in our lives. We pray for healing for the sick, comfort for the grieving, and hope for the discouraged. For financial health, physical health and healing and emotional strength for those who need it. For a Pastor in India who's wife ...

In management, there is a concept of self-talk. There is nothing crazy about talking to oneself. Self-talk is the internal dialogue that people have with themselves, and it can have a big impact on how a person feels and acts. Positive self-talk can help people feel better about themselves, and can have many benefits, including goal attainment and building an overall positive attitude. Drawing a cue from this concept, when we do our daily devotions and or read the Bible, instead of a mechanical tick in the box, if we relate what is being read to our own lives, each phase or period, we will be able to spot where we went wrong and what we did right. This knowledge will help to correct ourselves for future, aligning our life to Christ and Gods ways and will. That is exactly how computers also work. They analyze the past to predict the future. What does it mean to "preach to ourselves"? "Preaching to ourselves is essentially the biblical call to "meditate" on Scrip...

RC Sproul once related a possibly not so well known story: "After the Korean War ended, South Korea was left with a large number of children who had been orphaned by the war. We’ve seen the same thing in the Vietnam conflict, in Bosnia, and in other places. In the case of Korea, relief agencies came in to deal with all the problems that arose in connection with having so many orphan children. One of the people involved in this relief effort told me about a problem they encountered with the children who were in the orphanages. Even though the children had three meals a day provided for them, they were restless and anxious at night and had difficulty sleeping. As they talked to the children, they soon discovered that the children had great anxiety about whether they would have food the next day. To help resolve this problem, the relief workers in one particular orphanage decided that each night when the children were put to bed, the nurses there would place a single piece of bread i...