Prayer Thoughts for the Heart

Archive for June, 2010

The meaning of the word Integrity is: We are a serious minded person and believe in practicing honesty, sincerity, and straight as an arrow purpose for our dealings with others.

We would be wise to seek Jesus’ word for integrity, and that is to have a pure heart. A good conscience that has been taught Biblical Principles, can sleep well, and not be concerned about how we acted or reacted the day before.

Purity of heart is a Spiritual thing where we have taken our standard of conduct from the Bible and not the world. We need to free ourselves from the pollution we may see and hear each day and not mix it in with our godly integrity.

A Believer desires to be clean and pure and pleasing to God in our walk with Him. This mind-set must come from within and renewed every day.

Remembering that God is Love and to show others God’s Love, we must walk in Integrity.

The Apostle Paul was a disciple that was sold out to walking in Integrity. Most of us may not be called to preach and teach, but we are called to be a good example that is demonstrating godly integrity.

“Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God” (Ephesians 5:1-2).

“The integrity of the upright guides them” (Proverbs 11:3a).

Time is a period necessary, available, or allotted when something specific is accomplished. There is a time to work and a time to play, a time to spare and a time to give.

Father’s Day brings to mind many thoughts and hopefully they are pleasant and heart-warming times, and understanding and loving times.

When we think of our Heavenly Father, many thoughts of Him will flow through our mind, as Believers in Jesus Christ. We think of His mighty love, His everlasting mercy, His enduring faithfulness, and His desire to fellowship with us.

The best thing a father can spend on his children is time. There are many demands on his time and sparing some for family can be a hard thing to do, but no one said that this would be easy. Just be careful in your choosing as to how you use it.

Spending time on your children will give many opportunities that are needed in rearing them. When time is gone, it is gone and it can never be put back and used again.

A Christian father is a servant of God and the spiritual head of his home. There must be time for teaching, guiding, and developing the children. It can’t be done by osmosis.

All this is done with a loving wife and mother by the father’s side, helping to carry the load. It takes a lot of cooperation to keep the home moving forward. God’s rule book is the glue that will hold the family together until time is right for the children to leave the nest.

May God Bless your Family and the time you gave to your children, and it will pay off big time, and they will never forget to honor Dad, Mom, and most of all, God.

“Hear, YE children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding” (Proverbs 4:1 KJV).

We would be hard pressed to find anyone that doesn’t like to receive a gift. Today, I have good news that there are some exciting gifts we can receive.

First one is God’s gift of salvation and it is your free gift today. “…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31 NIV). All we have to do is receive it by faith and it is yours to keep. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV).

“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:7 NIV).

“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2 NIV).

God has another gift for us and it is His gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a wonderful gift because He is our teacher and guides us in the things of the spirit. He is the one who helps us discern biblical truths and to know right from wrong.
“But the man who isn’t a Christian can’t understand and can’t accept these thoughts from God, which the Holy Spirit teaches us. They sound foolish to him, because only those who have the Holy Spirit within them can understand what the Holy Spirit means” (1 Corinthians 2:14 LB).

Our next gift is the gift of godly wisdom that we receive when we know God as our Lord. “For the reverence and fear of God are basic to all wisdom. Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding” (Proverbs 9:10 LB).

Another gift to receive is the privilege of prayer. We can pray at any moment in time and God hears us. “Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them” (Hebrews 7:25 NIV).

One morning at our church, during our Thursday morning prayer time, a young woman said to me. “I have been thinking that God wants me to divorce my husband”.

I was shocked and couldn’t believe what she was saying to me. She and her husband had three children, came to church, and seemed happy.

I ask her if her husband was abusive to her or the children and she said no. I then asked if she or her husband were having an affair and she said no. As we talked on about her situation, I could see that she just wanted her freedom.

After we had prayer for her and others, I told her that God didn’t want her to divorce her husband, but that the ideas of the world were making her think this way.

I felt bad that she was unhappy and our prayer was that she could see and do what God really wanted her to do. When children are involved, there is much more to consider than just self.

They moved away from our area and I don’t know what happened in this situation. However, I hope that she heard from God, worked on her marriage, learned to love again, and kept the family unit intact.

She had made a commitment when she was in love and got married. The most important thing to remember is the commitment that we make to each other. We will fall in and out of love and if there is no commitment then what. We have to work at keeping our love alive and well.

“Delight yourself in the Lord; and he will give you the desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4 NIV).