Category Archives: Morning Prayer

My Mind at Work

“So even though I do not understand myself fully, I experience so much that I marvel at you even more because of that ignorance. Without understanding fully, my mind can still perceive stars in motion or growing things in the … Continue reading

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Beyond My Mind

  I can’t wrap my human mind around everything God says and does.    1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (NIV) … as it is written:    “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,      and what no human … Continue reading

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Reason Together

Isaiah 1:18 (EXB) The Lord says, “Come, let us talk about these things [reason together; or settle this matter; or consider your options].”   Reason together. Talk it over, consider the options. God isn’t looking for mindless agreement. He’s OK … Continue reading

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Balanced Thought

  Matthew 22:37 (NIV)  Love the Lord your God … with all your mind.   Matthew’s “with all you mind” uses the Greek word dianoia—diá, from side to side, and noiéō, to use the mind. It represents balanced thought. God … Continue reading

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Using My Mind

“Take my intellect and use every power as thou shalt choose.” Frances Havergal, 1874 From the hymn “Take My Life and Let It Be”   The wisdom of the world says that faith and intellect can’t coexist.  Matthew 22:37 (NIV)  … Continue reading

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Giving Is Good for Me

God doesn’t need my offering. Psalm 50:9-10 (NLT) But I do not need the bulls from your barns or the goats from your pens. For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a … Continue reading

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Content with Less

Leviticus 23:22 (AMP) When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the edges of your field, nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the poor and for the stranger.  … Continue reading

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Give Cheerfully

2 Corinthians 9:7-8 (NIV) Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly.   I give, God blesses. The … Continue reading

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First Fruits or Leftovers?

Deuteronomy 26:2 (ESV) You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you … Continue reading

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My Mite, My Silver and My Gold

Continuing with more wisdom from this old hymn: “Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold.” Frances Havergal, 1874 From the hymn “Take My Life and Let It Be” These lyrics speak to something Jesus noticed. … Continue reading

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