morning attitude

There are only two kinds of people in the world - there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Lord," and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it's morning."

dozing... zZzZzZz...

i think this is most precious!!!!!

Q. "What do you do when you realize you have been dozing during prayer?"

A. "If you doze off, don't give it a second thought. A child in the arms of a parent drops off to sleep occasionally, but the parent isn't disturbed by that as long as the child is happily resting there and opens its eyes once in a while.

Prayer

If Jesus needed to pray - being what He was, how must we need it - being what we are.

---James Stalker

Peace

Just few verses that have been on my mind lately:

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

that is the same peace that Jesus talks about in John 14:27

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Be blessed!!!

Hungry?!

Do you have a hunger for God? If we don't feel strong desires for themanifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunkdeeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at thetable of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there isno room for the great. If we are full of what the world offers, thenperhaps a fast might express, or even increase, our soul's appetite forGod. Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is the pathof pleasant pain called fasting.

---John Piper

Don't Lie to God

i thought this was very neat. it's a great reminder actually. as sad as it is, but as Christians sometimes we start to pretend with God and forget that He wants to see is the way that we are, not some puffed up people.

Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for prayer. And the chief of them is this: "Do not lie to God." And that curt piece of advice, so bluntly thrown down for us, is indeed all-important. Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exaggerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth.