BE ENCOURAGED!

Snippet

For those who feel that their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept the love of Christ, which knows no shadow or alteration or change.  When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavey burdened,"  he assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way.  These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus.  He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship.  He knew that physical pain, the loss of loved ones, failure, loneliness, rejection, abandonment, and betrayal would sap our spirits, that the day would come when faith would no longer offer any assurance, and drive or comfort, that prayer would lack any sense of reality or progress, that one day we would echo the cry of Teresa of Avila, "Lord,  if this is the way you treat your friends, it is no wonder you have so few."   (Reflections for Ragamuffins Brennan Manning Pg. 63

Scripture

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:5

Song

Love the Lord Lincoln Brewster

http://youtu.be/U8mr839-TVs

Love the Lord Your God with all your heart

With all your soul

With all your mind and with all your strength

Love the Lord Your God with all your heart

With all your soul

With all your mind and with all your strength

With all your heart with all your soul

With all your mind with all your strength

Love the Lord Your God with all your heart

With all your soul

With all your mind and with all your strength

I will serve You Lord with all my heart with all my soul

With all my mind and with all my strength

I will serve You Lord with all my heart with all my soul

With all my mind and with all my strength

With all my heart with all my soul

With all my mind with all my strength

I will serve You Lord with all my heart with all my soul

With all my mind and with all my strength

I will love You

I will praise You

I will serve You

I will trust You

With all my heart with all my soul

With all my mind with all my strength

With all my heart with all my soul

With all my mind with all my strength

I will love You Lord with all my heart with all my soul

With all my mind and with all my strength

Sentence Prayer

John Wesley’s Prayer

I am no longer my own but yours,

Put me to what you will

Put me to doing, put me to suffering.

Let me be employed for you or laid aside for you.

Let me be full, let me be empty.

Let me have all things, let me have nothing.

I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal

And now glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

You are mine and I am yours. So be it.

And this covenant now made on earth, let it be satisfied in heaven.

Amen