Prayer Thoughts for the Heart

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The word Apply means to put to a practical or a specific use. We have to learn to Apply knowledge and wisdom to our problems, so we can solve them. But we can only Apply what we have stored up in our mind and heart.

The Psalms remind us that we should Apply our hearts to wisdom and we must seek it diligently as it doesn’t automatically come to us. When we understand this and know that it is a treasure that the Lord gives out of His mouth and it is laid up for the righteous, then it is ours for the taking.

We are also to cry out for His knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, as well as seeking it as eagerly as we would seek silver and gold.

Receiving the goodness of God starts when we learn the fear of God, which is when we develop a deep reverence for Him. Reverence means we will have a deep respect and a thankful heart towards Him. The fear of God, according to scripture, is the beginning of wisdom.

Our attitude will be one of deep awesomeness as we will want to praise and worship Him for His worthiness, faithfulness and holy love.

True wisdom is taught by God because it is in His Word and it means to justify God and not ourselves. To justify God is for us to agree with Him about who He says He is and that His Word is truth.

The wise person will Apply his heart to godly understanding and wisdom, and knows that it is on ongoing process. We will definitely have to spend time in the Scriptures so to build our knowledge, line upon line and precept upon precept.

The scriptures have some things to say about a person who thinks they are wise and don’t need godly wisdom. This is self-conceit, self-importance, and self-exaltation. Overestimation of self can close the door to godly wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, which teaches us a true picture of how we are to see ourselves.

Our friends and family and strangers are watching when we least expect it and what they see will impress them in some way. Will it be in a wise way or ………………..?

Be diligent about learning and then storing godly wisdom in your heart because only then will you have the knowledge of knowing what to Apply, and how to Apply it, and then be quick to Apply it when it is needed.

“Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips” (Proverbs 22:17-18 NIV).

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.

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).

Joy keeps us kind.
Prayer keeps us humble.
Troubles keep us kneeling.
Success keeps us inspired.

Love keeps us faithful.
Sadness keeps us caring.
Patience keeps us considerate.
Failure keeps us trying.

Service keeps us pleasing.
Guidance keeps us going.
Promises keep us steadfast.
Truthfulness keeps us genuine.

Rules keep us observant.
Trusting keeps us encouraged.
Understanding keeps us peaceful.
Wisdom keeps us wise.

Worship keeps us connected.
Actions keep us alive.
Dependable keeps us honest.
Confidence keeps us hopeful.

Prudence keeps us practable.
Respectful keeps us likeable.
Merciful keeps us generous.
Stubbornness keeps us rebellious.

Laziness keeps us poor.
Supplication keeps us concerned.
Arrogance keeps us conceited.
Meekness keeps us gentle.

Rejoicing keeps us blessed.
Obedience keeps us submissive.
Principles keep us moral.
Faithfulness keeps us loyal.

Character keeps us believable.
Scripture keeps us grounded.
Application keeps us practicing.
Pride keeps us self-centered.

Peace keeps us content.
Humility keeps us grateful.
Goodness keeps us praise-worthy.
Kindness keeps us gracious.

Grace keeps us responsive.
Mercy keeps us receiving.
Respect keeps us polite.
Gentleness keeps us compassionate.

Faith keeps us confident.
Fellowship keeps us in-touch.
Integrity keeps us sincere.
Weakness keeps us strong.

Confession keeps us admitting.
Sanctification keeps us set-apart.
Jealousies keep us green-eyed.
Giving keeps us accountable.

Chastening keeps us learning.
Eternity keeps us delighted.
Comforting keeps us comforted.
Intercession keeps us petitioning.

Preaching keeps us built-up.
Resurrection keeps us celebrating.
Self-Control keeps us correcting.
Reconciliation keeps us persuaded.

Adoration keeps us singing.
Rewards keep us pumped-up.
Discernment keeps us perceptive.
Christmas keeps us overjoyed.

Discord keeps us clashing.
Thanksgiving keeps us appreciating.
Communion keeps us remembering.

Greedy keeps us wanting.
Vengeance keeps us planning.
Gossip keeps us distracted.
Revival keeps us regenerated.

Unity keeps us harmonizing.
Preparation keeps us ready.
Stealing keeps us malicious.
Compromising keeps us changing.

Deceitfulness keeps us devilish.
Worry keeps us preoccupied.
Inspiration keeps us enthusiastic.

The Continental Congress passed a resolution on July 2, 1776, to declare independence from England. Two days later, on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

THE FIRST WORDS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…..”

Let us give thanks to God for how He led our Founding Fathers and gave them wisdom to establish a new Nation, as we celebrate another anniversary of Freedom.

When the Colonies were seeking God’s will to break ties with England, George Washington wrote in his diary. “Went to church and fasted all day”.

America is a very unique nation, built upon the most unusual documents, that has served us well for over 200 years. The original constitution of the American states, the Articles of Confederation, was ratified by the states. On September 13, 1788, the Congress passed a resolution to put the new Constitution into operation.

PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”.

George Washington served in the Continental Congress and after the Revolution began, He became the Commander of the Army July 1775. The war was over in1783 and he retired from the Army and returned to Mount Vernon. Washington and others joined to reorganize the Articles of Confederation and in 1787, he presided over the Constitutional Convention, which wrote the Constitution of the United States.

Many people who knew George Washington up close and personal, report that he was a truly dedicated man and a God fearing man. They said that many times he spoke of seeing how God had answered his prayers.

When the Revolution was winding down and he and his army could smell victory, he reported that he knew that God Almighty gave them the victory.

“Righteousness exalts a nation” (Proverbs 14:34 NIV).