Prayer Thoughts for the Heart

Give yourself a checkup and find out which Track you are on and which Track is the best one to be on when you want certain results.

Are you on the Right Track today or the Wrong Track? Are you on the Slow Track or the Coasting Track? Are you on the Fast Track or the Don’t Care Track?

You really should be on the Track that is going to help you know what God has planned for you each day, and then you can know that you are on the Right Track.

The Coasting Track can be a Track that you get on and just have a pity Party, but it can be the time you can pray, reflect on God’s wisdom that you need at that moment. Also, the Slow Track can be a good time to take inventory, reflect on helping others, taking time to be with your family, and to have some slow down time.

Get off of the Don’t Care Track the moment that you find that you are on it. Satan wants you to stay there day after day, but don’t do it. Be very careful to never get on the Wrong Track because it will only take you the wrong way.

At all times you need to be on the Right Track and this will take some help from God’s Word. This is how you will build you faith, your Christian faith. It is what gives you what it takes to trust in God, as trusting conquers fear, doubt, anxiety, discouragement, and the impossible.

A trusting faith, which is found on the Right Track, is what will build courage and confidence. These will determine your level of obedience. This is where you learn that to obey is pleasing to God and brings many blessings, like love, joy, and peace that will surpass all understanding.

You may need to get on the Fast Track some time, but be very careful it can take you where you might not want to go. It is hard to get off of the Fast Track and it is difficult to make fast decisions on the Fast Track.
Godly wisdom is found on the Right Track and will keep you on the Right Track, going in the right direction, at the right speed and doing the right things.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make you paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV).

We all get excited when we think of someone giving us a gift. A gift is something we give to show love, friendship, make a person laugh or to give comfort.

The words gift or gifts appear in the Scripture approximately 65 times. It describes many kinds of gifts. Some are good, some helpful, some needful, some interesting and some are expensive.

Scripture says we have been given spiritual gifts for the work of the ministry of Christ. We have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit, the gift of justification, the gift of salvation, the gift of eternal life, and the gift of grace. But the best gift of all is the gift of Jesus Christ.

Give the gift of praise and thanksgiving to God for His Gift of Gifts.

“Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift” (2 Corinthians 9:15).

Prayer Thought: Thanksgiving Day comes but once a year and it is a wonderful time to enjoy delicious food and good fellowship with family and friends. And don’t forget to take some time to be sincerely thankful for what you have.

Thank God for His blessings and the help you have received from others. Also, be sure and be thankful for all our Service men and women, who are far away from family and putting their lives on the line each day.

We must pause and give thanks, because a thankful heart is a loving heart and a loving heart is a joyful heart and a grateful heart knows the true meaning of the peace of God. Knowing this, should produce a wonderful day of thanksgiving on Thanksgiving Day and on each day of the year.

Please remember to be thankful for God’s greatest gift to all mankind, His Son Jesus Christ. God has also given us the earth and all it beauty and goodness. These should bring gladness and thanks to our lips, as well as praise and worship and the deepest heartfelt gratitude. Your overflowing heart should verbalize your thanksgiving loud, and clear, and often.

If happiness puts a song in your heart, then it stands to reason that remembering God’s goodness with thanksgiving will also put a song in your heart.

Worship and praise singing is a way of showing God we have a thankful heart. What are you thankful for? Name them one by one and you will be surprised at how rich you are in blessings from God, your family, and friends.

Our life is a circle of love from God, to God, and then reaching out with His love to others. Let our thanksgiving to God be spontaneous and a wonderful expression from your heart. Also help others to have a Thanksgiving Day that only you can help provide.

The Book Stores, the Libraries, and even our own shelves at home are full of How to Books. No matter what we start to do, we usually decide to go to the book store and see if we can find a How to Book for our new project.

There are How to Books on building a house and decorating a house. Some books on fashion design and wood working. Some books on landscaping and planting a garden. Some books on weight loss and exercising. We could make this list longer and longer.

However, the How to Book we all need most, and need to spend time searching through, is the bestselling book of all times, the How to Book on Christian Living, The Bible.

The information in the Bible, covers every area of a person’s life, and their relationship to God, and to other people. The information is to help us live a godly life.

If you have a copy of the Holy Bible, you have a treasure chest that is overflowing and waiting for you to take out the gift of salvation with eternal life. Then take out the pearls of wisdom and all the golden characteristics of God, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

The Bible has many books in one book. Included are books of poetry, history, sermons, prophecy, evangelism, romance and much more. These all have something in them that God wants to teach us.

Below is a list that can be helpful as we live our daily routines of life.

1. Let the mind of Christ be in you, Philippians 2:5.
2. Grow in grace and knowledge, 2 Peter 3:18.
3. Overcome evil with Good, Romans 12:21.

Prayer Thought: Believers in Jesus Christ, His birth and resurrection, have received a Son-Tan from head to toe. Most people that we know, including ourselves, have relaxed in the sun to get a Sun-Tan.

Prayer and serious reading of His Word will give us a Son-Tan on the inside too.

Jesus’ gift of a permanent Son-Tan also, has some good side effects and they are that we can have joy in the valleys of life and when we are on the mountain top.

We will want to let people that we come in contact with, know how we got our Son-Tan. The Sun is 93 million miles from the earth and it can tan our skin. Jesus sits at the right hand of God and he is not too far away to hear us ask for His Son-Tan.

It is not good for us to sit in the Sun too long or we will get over exposed and it will cause harm to our skin. However, we can sit in the light of the Son and never get over exposed to His rays. His rays are helpful and not harmful.

What could be better than relaxing in a comfortable lounge chair and soaking up the Son’s love and fellowship? While doing this we can also enjoy plenty of water, the Word, the Living Water. Let it wash over you and cleanse you from any unrighteousness.

To live is to have the Son-Tan. Let us give the Son praise as we enjoy our Son-Tan and think about all His benefits. We can soak up His peace, comfort, and goodness and they can make our life a lot better.

Go for it and get your Son-Tan, you will be glad you did.

The words think and thank come from the same root word and one reminds us to demonstrate the other in our speech and actions.

Think means to ponder or reflect. Thank means to express gratitude.

A thankful heart and mind most often will be a thoughtful heart and a thoughtful heart and mind most often will be a thankful heart and mind.

Therefore, when we are thoughtless, we are usually thankless. Very seldom is a thoughtless person thankful for what he has and therefore he is forgetful to be thankful to himself or to anyone else.

Scriptures urges us to think and to thank. It is a choice that we need to make. No one can make it for us, but it should be the desire of our heart.

If we pause a moment to think, most likely we will pause to give thanks. Pausing gives us time to remember, as thankfulness comes to the mind from the heart.

If we are thankful to God for His goodness and believe it deeply and it rules our mind and heart, thoughtfulness and thankfulness will rule our actions. Another way to say this is, to let divine love and wisdom, umpire our life.

The Bible is a treasure chest of wisdom and knowledge for us to open and take from to use and share with others. Give thanks and think to praise God for such a wonderful gift as this.

If our speech and actions are covered with God grace, it will be gracious, wholesome, truthful, respectful, thoughtful and thankful.

Forget not! Remember the above, think and thank about the fact that these two words are interdependent. They go hand in hand and remind us what our response should be at all times.

“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV).

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7 KJV).