Day Three
Rest for Your Soul
1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
Your relationship with God feels distant and strained. Activity crowds the Savior out of your days. Worry and stress mark the hours. Anxious one, come flood rest into your soul.
Today I Pray for You:
· To draw close to Christ and seek Him first and most
· To roll your cares onto Christ so peace will roll into you.
Today You Pray:
God of Refreshment, my soul is weary. I come dragging to Your feet to find rest. As I pause in the blizzard of activity, I sense Your presence and remember You walk beside me on this journey.
You gave me this opportunity. You worked in my life to bring it to pass. The what of my day seems insignificant here with the Whom. This realization allows me to make the great exchange – my cares for Your care for me.
Do you think this is going to hit me between the eyes every day? Because it sure is hitting it's mark (well, more like my heart than my eyes:) so far. Keep posting, I'm reading.
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Mary
Hi, I'm going to post about your blog today. Would you want to do a little blurb introducing my readers to your blog, I'll do the lead in and the finish up, you do the body? I want them to get in on this 30 days before too many days have passed.
ReplyDeleteIf you're willing, I'll use your button and could we also lift the pic of your family?
Thanks,
Mary
Mary, I am humbled and honored. I am emailing you a little blurb to the email attached to your Google account. Would love for you to include the button and any additional graphics of your choosing.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for blessing me on this prayer journey.
Needed this this morning :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting these.
what a lovely post. Hugs and VB♥
ReplyDeleteI am appreciating your posts. I think I need to put God first more in my life.
ReplyDeleteHi Shannon - that is so awesome - I love the bit - the what of my day seems so insignificant here with the Whom. Close to Jesus make s all the stuff seem less important.
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Tracy
Hi Shannon,
ReplyDeleteI came over from visiting Redo 101 and she told us about your 30 days adventure preparing for life events, so I came to check it out and think it is wonderful. So have become a new follower.
Your devotionals are great and so appreciated.
The Lord has gifted you for sure..........
Just saw in your sidebar that you are a speaker as well, wow, that is wonderful.
Blessings, and see ya again soon,
Nellie
Kelly, LOVE it when God meets us at our point of need!
ReplyDeleteKatherine, thank you for your sweet visit. YOU are a gift!
ReplyDeleteGrumpy Grateful Mom, isn't it cool that God takes us right where we are. I'm sure not perfect but He comes to where I am anyway. So beautiful!
ReplyDeleteTracy, so true "Close to Jesus makes all the stuff seem less important."
ReplyDeleteNellie, I am so honored by your visit and humbled by your follow. Isn't it amazing what God can do through the life of an ordinary girl who simply dares to whisper "yes"?
ReplyDeletePraise God for His refreshing - like the gentle rain. Then like a well springing up with pure fresh water for our thirsty soul. Thanks for your beautiful and heart felt prayers.
ReplyDeleteLove this "like a well springing up with pure fresh water for our thirsty soul." Thanks for dropping by - so thankful you were refreshed!
ReplyDeletehow good to come to God in my weariness.
ReplyDeleteFondly,
Glenda
Glenda, Oh how I need to fall at Jesus feet. Thanks for visiting!
ReplyDeleteI just shared this on FB -- such an appropriate prayer as we battle the fires (literally) around us.
ReplyDeleteOh Jen, I have prayed and will continue to pray - thank you for drawing others to God's heart in the midst of this difficult circumstance.
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes...activity does crowd the Savior out of our lives. Mine especially, busy, busy doesn't equal productive.
ReplyDeleteOH, my this is a little bit of oasis for me tonight! Thank you for these encouraging words tonight. I'm so glad you linked up to Playdates. I found a wee bit of rest in my stop here.
ReplyDeleteAmy, wow - that is so true "busy doesn't equal productive." I so easily fall prey to that but also so desperately want to live an uncrowded life where God has room to move and breathe in me.
ReplyDeleteLaura, so thankful for the rest you found here. I pray it stays with you and infuses your soul with God's care.
ReplyDeleteLove what you are doing here. I've fallen at His feet tonight -- oh so weary and knowing He gives strength -- even joy in the weariness.
ReplyDeletePamela, falling with you, sweet sister. Worshipping the One who gives us strength.
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