the prayer of my heart

O, Lord, my King, my Savior, my Creator, my Love

in the same way you provided and blessed in abundance...
to the point that the blessings were too many for the people to keep,
so they piled the overflow in HEAPS,

please send heaps
PLEASE SEND HEAPS
please provide in abundance
multiply
bulge the storehouses
overflow the barrels
make our sacs heavy with blessing
our nets breaking with fish
let us see in faith
move in faith
press on in faith
let us see you move, Lord.
show us Who You are.
let us make no mistake that it is by Your hand we are satisfied, fed, clothed, filled, loved, saved, and given heaps.  

God, I love You.  I love and I love and I love You.

simple gifts

...I had just started making coffee this morning and was opening the kitchen shade when I looked up to our cherry tree and saw a little downy woodpecker, hopping around and pecking away.  Then his wife (or brother or whoever) flew in.  I never get to see those little guys in our yard, so I was thinking how much of a treat that was.  Then I was thinking how if I hadn't been looking for anything in the cherry tree, I wouldn't have even seen them.  I would have missed that little gift this morning.  And so I was encouraged to continue to seek the Lord's face and then to look for His blessings and gifts and answers.

I love Him today...

God, I'm thankful for You, for your faithfulness, for your mercies that are brand new every morning.  Thank you for meeting my biggest and main need in giving Jesus to save me, to offer forgiveness, to make me friends with you once again.  Thank you for your love that envelops me and sweeps over me like a sweet fragrant meadow wind.  Please fill me with your essence, so whatever I do today, wherever I go, whoever I see, I am spreading your essence, that sweet fragrance of Christ.  Please overwhelm me with yourself that I might lovingly and persistently share you with others.  Keep me near Jesus today...amen.