each morning is a blessing, and since tomorrow isn't promised to us, i cannot go to sleep without thanking Him for letting me see and survive another day.
Good night people!
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
13 April 2019
the conversation
each morning is a blessing, and since tomorrow isn't promised to us, i cannot go to sleep without thanking Him for letting me see and survive another day.
Good night people!
28 March 2019
Mawning
23 February 2014
30 December 2013
03 November 2013
morning prayer
Dear God,
You know that which I fear the most. You know what it is. I pray to You about it at least 10 times a day. In a few days, if it's Your will, I'll be older than I've ever been. Please give me the desires of my heart, that which others take for granted; that which I would cherish and I would praise Your Holy name for the rest of my life.
Amen.
You know that which I fear the most. You know what it is. I pray to You about it at least 10 times a day. In a few days, if it's Your will, I'll be older than I've ever been. Please give me the desires of my heart, that which others take for granted; that which I would cherish and I would praise Your Holy name for the rest of my life.
Amen.
30 July 2012
Sharing a friend's Facebook status
Dear God,
Please give me the strength and the ability to detect shade whenever it’s being thrown at me.
Amen.
--Alex Al-Ouadim
Please give me the strength and the ability to detect shade whenever it’s being thrown at me.
Amen.
--Alex Al-Ouadim
06 July 2012
The Prayer of Mathematics
"Dear God,
I'm not always a good judge of character. I try to see the good in people, and sometimes there is no goodness in them, but I will still look for it. Sometimes I think that people can't possibly mistreat people who treat them well, but I know that's me being naive. My mother raised me to believe in reaping and sowing, so being evil on indifferent in return is not in my DNA. Dear Lord, please subtract from my life, people who don't mean me well, people who are anchors whose only purpose in life is to weigh me down, instigators, liars, hypocrites, fair-weather friends, users, those who call me friend but treat me like that friend of the family that always assumes he's invited and shows up to events, those who invite me to events only after everyone else has been invited and they made the mistake of mentioning the event to me, those who don't have the courage to tell me to leave them alone, those who make me feel like I don't measure up to them, and people who will prevent me from being who and what You and I want me to be, and, dear Lord, please add to my life, the exact opposite, and that is, people who actually care about me, who want me to be happy and want me to do well on this journey I call life. Amen "
This is my prayer every morning. Interesting though; I try to be as cool as receptive and as funny and as sweet and as reliable as I can be, and sometimes I wonder why some friends automatically drop off, never to be heard from again. Sometimes I even call and text them, leaving messages, 'hoping that they're okay,' and they don't respond.
Then I realize, God is answering my prayer. He's filtering out all the anchors, all the albatrosses, all the fakers, all the liars, the fair-weather friends, those that either don't mean me well or don't care about me. Like I asked.
19 March 2012
14 July 2011
in need of a verse?
12 July 2011
15 March 2011
02 December 2010
In need of a verse?
10 November 2010
11 October 2010
Is any one among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.
--James 5:13
when i was in high school and began to rediscover the existence that all of life i perceive and even that which is beyond is One- i recall my return to prayer being an allowance of hope. that if God does exist, than my prayer is this...and may it reach your ears.
shortly after i remember being at Thursday night bible study at the Rose Of Sharon COGIC, in Racine Wisconsin, where the leader said- everyone must share their prayer request because everyone needs prayer. i recall praying with someone who was battling darkened depths and asking for God to rescue him from that pit. i can trace the rollercoaster of my faith journey by how much I’m willing to surrender in prayer.
but what is the purpose of prayer? i really struggled to grasp why if it was so important there was no formal structure and no clear outline. why my prayers could be unlimited and i had the promise that God heard all of it. why praying to Him is a service, when to me it’s a listing of all my requests and my petitions to win over the Omnipotent Creator to my way.
and anyone who's taken part in Evangelical Christianity for at least a bit of time has learned that the purpose of prayer is to change our hearts, not His. but i can’t just elect to work on my heart when it’s convenient or when it fits into my schedule. prayer is still really fuzzy in my mind and really complex. but what's sunk in as of late is this: prayer is like the classroom for working on my soul and my spirit. we hash things out there, and that it’s really beneficial for me to try to be silent and still at least for a handful of moments a day. prayer is where we turn to elevate our souls to our spiritual level. prayer is where i'm to turn to in every emotion and every circumstance-- and thru this lens i will begin to see the greater reality in all of living.
18 February 2010
The Prayer Of Mathematics
Dear Lord,
“I pray that you subtract from my life, people who don’t mean me well, and who will prevent me from being who You and I want me to be. I also pray that you add to my life, people who will help me to be whom You and I want me to be.”
I can’t take credit for this prayer; I remembered hearing my mother’s pastor say it, and it stuck with me. I named it The Prayer of Mathematics for obvious reasons.
There’s a popular saying about people being in your life for a reason or for a season, and I’m inclined to believe that. I have had long-distance friendships that have lasted for decades and some local friendships that have only lasted a year or less. I used to wonder what happened to those people with whom I lost contact, and I’d be disappointed. These weren’t fair-weather friendships; some of those people have had my back when I really needed them and vice versa, so it’s not as if we had even had a disagreement of any kind. They would just dwindle off, and I would always wonder why.
When I started praying that prayer, I had found that even when I try to maintain friendships by initiating an email or text or phone call, there are some that suddenly stop corresponding. I used to wonder why I have to do all the communicating, but I had to remind myself that God is doing what I had prayed for him to do; He’s removing those hindrances. Only thing is, I don't always know that they're hindrances. Every now and then, I still wonder what happened to certain people, but that prayer washes away every bit of frustration I have. I remember 3 yrs ago, I was trying to get back in my chosen career field after a 4 year absence. I was disappointed because about a dozen recruiters were saying they were helping me. In rare instances when I did get an interview they always centered around the question "What have you been doing the past 4 years ?" It was as if I had been sitting home, doing nothing. When I had almost given up, I went to my mom’s church and heard her pastor recite that prayer. A new recruiter called me shortly afterwards and said he saw my resume on Monster.com, and he found me an ideal position in my field! The recruiter asked the question "What have you been doing the past 4 years ?" and he informed potential employers, and I was never asked that question again.
What is it that I want to be? I want to be happy. I have a great job where I have been almost 2 yrs. I want to be in the company of people who will inspire me to be a better Christian, a better human being, and even better employee, a better man, a better writer, a published writer, a better cook, someone who will instill the confidence I need to approach the people I want to get to know. And so now, when I call or text or email people and they don't follow up with me, I don’t even worry about it anymore if they don’t. If they don’t, then that’s God’s way of purging them from my life.
This is a repost
“I pray that you subtract from my life, people who don’t mean me well, and who will prevent me from being who You and I want me to be. I also pray that you add to my life, people who will help me to be whom You and I want me to be.”
I can’t take credit for this prayer; I remembered hearing my mother’s pastor say it, and it stuck with me. I named it The Prayer of Mathematics for obvious reasons.
There’s a popular saying about people being in your life for a reason or for a season, and I’m inclined to believe that. I have had long-distance friendships that have lasted for decades and some local friendships that have only lasted a year or less. I used to wonder what happened to those people with whom I lost contact, and I’d be disappointed. These weren’t fair-weather friendships; some of those people have had my back when I really needed them and vice versa, so it’s not as if we had even had a disagreement of any kind. They would just dwindle off, and I would always wonder why.
When I started praying that prayer, I had found that even when I try to maintain friendships by initiating an email or text or phone call, there are some that suddenly stop corresponding. I used to wonder why I have to do all the communicating, but I had to remind myself that God is doing what I had prayed for him to do; He’s removing those hindrances. Only thing is, I don't always know that they're hindrances. Every now and then, I still wonder what happened to certain people, but that prayer washes away every bit of frustration I have. I remember 3 yrs ago, I was trying to get back in my chosen career field after a 4 year absence. I was disappointed because about a dozen recruiters were saying they were helping me. In rare instances when I did get an interview they always centered around the question "What have you been doing the past 4 years ?" It was as if I had been sitting home, doing nothing. When I had almost given up, I went to my mom’s church and heard her pastor recite that prayer. A new recruiter called me shortly afterwards and said he saw my resume on Monster.com, and he found me an ideal position in my field! The recruiter asked the question "What have you been doing the past 4 years ?" and he informed potential employers, and I was never asked that question again.
What is it that I want to be? I want to be happy. I have a great job where I have been almost 2 yrs. I want to be in the company of people who will inspire me to be a better Christian, a better human being, and even better employee, a better man, a better writer, a published writer, a better cook, someone who will instill the confidence I need to approach the people I want to get to know. And so now, when I call or text or email people and they don't follow up with me, I don’t even worry about it anymore if they don’t. If they don’t, then that’s God’s way of purging them from my life.
This is a repost
23 October 2009
23 September 2009
Wise words
“If you're gonna pray, then there's no sense of worrying. If you're gonna worry, then there's no sense of praying.” Irma P. Hall’s Mama Joe character in the movie Soul Food
16 September 2009
Like an eagle
"But they that wait upon the LORD
shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as EAGLES
they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint."....Isaiah 40:31
Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks? The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come.
When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages, below the eagle is soaring above it. The eagle does not escape the storm, it simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm.
When the storms of life come upon us ... and all of us will experience them ... we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief toward God.
The storms do not have to overcome us, we can allow God's power to lift us above them. God enables us to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness, tragedy, failure, and disappointment into our lives. We can soar above the storm.
Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh us down, it is how we handle them.
~ Author Unknown ~
I can't take credit for this. I found it, online. I can't even remember what I was looking for. You know like, how, when you do a Google search, and everything pops up except what you're looking for? This was how I came across this. I'm sure I was meant to read this at this exact time in my life. Thanks for Divine Intervention! Always at the right time!
shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as EAGLES
they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint."....Isaiah 40:31
Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks? The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come.
When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages, below the eagle is soaring above it. The eagle does not escape the storm, it simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm.
When the storms of life come upon us ... and all of us will experience them ... we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief toward God.
The storms do not have to overcome us, we can allow God's power to lift us above them. God enables us to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness, tragedy, failure, and disappointment into our lives. We can soar above the storm.
Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh us down, it is how we handle them.
~ Author Unknown ~
I can't take credit for this. I found it, online. I can't even remember what I was looking for. You know like, how, when you do a Google search, and everything pops up except what you're looking for? This was how I came across this. I'm sure I was meant to read this at this exact time in my life. Thanks for Divine Intervention! Always at the right time!
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