DARKNESS

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How do we find God in the darkness?   By clinging to one another! Roger Miller

Scripture

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

    Why are you so far from saving me,

    so far from my cries of anguish?

 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,

    by night, but I find no rest. Psalms 22:1,2

Song

Hard to Get Rich Mullins

http://youtu.be/yEVFSGtD1I4

"You who live in heaven

Hear the prayers of those of us who live on earth

Who are afraid of being left by those we love

And who get hardened by the hurt

Do you remember when You lived down here where we all scrape

To find the faith to ask for daily bread

Did You forget about us after You had flown away

Well I memorized every word You said

Still I'm so scared I'm holding my breath

While You're up there just playing hard to get

You who live in radiance

Hear the prayers of those of us who live in skin

We have a love that's not as patient as Yours was

Still we do love now and then

Did You ever know loneliness

Did You ever know need

Do You remember just how long a night can get?

When You were barely holding on

And Your friends fall asleep

And don't see the blood that's running in Your sweat

Will those who mourn be left uncomforted

While You're up there just playing hard to get?

And I know you bore our sorrows

And I know you feel our pain

And I know it would not hurt any less

Even if it could be explained

And I know that I am only lashing out

At the One who loves me most

And after I figured this somehow

All I really need to know

Is if You who live in eternity

Hear the prayers of those of us who live in time

We can't see what's ahead

And we can not get free of what we've left behind

I'm reeling from these voices that keep screaming in my ears

All the words of shame and doubt blame and regret

I can't see how You're leading me unless You've led me here

Where I'm lost enough to let myself be led

And so You've been here all along I guess

It's just Your ways and You are just plain hard to get"

Sentence Prayer

Father;

Today I am in a dark place

I am in a tomb there seems no way out

May I hold on to Jesus till you roll away the stone.  Amen R.M

VALENTINES DAY

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Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. Danielle Steel

Scripture

Set me as a seal upon your heart,

As a seal upon your arm;

For love is as strong as death,

Jealousy as cruel as the grave;

Its flames are flames of fire,

A most vehement flame.

 Many waters cannot quench love,

Nor can the floods drown it.

If a man would give for love

All the wealth of his house,

It would be utterly despised  Song of Solomon 8:6,7 NKJV

Song

You light up my life Debby Boone

http://youtu.be/j3ssmH8vjf4

So many nights

I'd sit by my window,

Waiting for someone

To sing me his song.

So many dreams

I've kept deep inside me.

Alone in the dark

But now you've come along.

(Chorus):

And you

Light up my life.

You give me hope

To carry on.

You light up my days

And fill my nights

With song.

Rolling at sea,

Adrift on the waters.

Could it be finally

I'm turning for home?

Finally, a chance

To say, "Hey, I love you,"

Never again

To be all alone.

(Chorus x2)

It can't be wrong,

When it feels so right.

'Cause you...

You light up my...

Life

Sentence Prayer

God of Power and might,

Thank you for the gift of

Love this

Valentines Day,

And for all the people whose

Love shines in my life.

Continue to fill

My heart with your love

And let me share that love

With the world. . .

This Valentines Day and Always. Amen.

http://www.odysseynetworks.org/sites/default/files/pdf/

A_Valentines_Day_Prayer.pdf

FALLING IN LOVE

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“we are a ‘doing’ people.  We always want to be doing something.  Once in a while someone will say, ‘Don’t just stand there, do something.’ I think God is crying out  and shouting to us, ‘don’t do something. Stand there!  Enter into a love relationship with me.  Get to know me.  Adjust your life to me.  Let me love you and reveal myself to you as I work through you. Henry Blackaby

Scripture

For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 NLT

Song

More Like Falling In Love

Jason Gray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1ZgtCRO-KY

Give me rule

I will break them

Show me lines

I will cross them

I need more than

A truth to believe

I need a truth that lives

Moves and breathes

To sweep me off my feet, it's gotta be

More like falling in love

Than something to believe in

More like losing my heart

Than giving my allegiance

Caught up, called out

Come take a look at me now

It's like I'm falling, oh

It's like I'm falling in love

Give me words

I'll misuse them

Obligations

I'll misplace them

'Cause all religion

Ever made of me

Was just a sinner

With a stone tied to my feet

It never set me free, it's gotta be

More like falling in love

Than something to believe in

More like losing my heart

Than giving my allegiance

Caught up, called out

Come take a look at me now

It's like I'm falling, oh

It's like I'm falling in

Love, love, love

Deeper and deeper, it was

Love that made me a believer

In more than a name

A faith, a creed

Falling in love with Jesus brought

The change in me

More like falling in love

Than something to believe in

More like losing my heart

Than giving my allegiance

Caught up, called out

Come take a look at me now

It's like I'm falling, oh

It's like I'm falling

More like falling in love

Than something to believe in

More like losing my heart

Than giving my allegiance

Caught up, called out

Come take a look at me now

It's like I'm falling, oh

It's like I'm falling in love

It's like I'm falling

(Falling in love)

It's like I'm falling

Sentence Prayer

Holy Spirit capture our hearts with your loving strength.  Fill them with your heavenly comfort and joy so that we may always rest assured in God and face our concerns with joy and contentment, and so as children of God overcome this evil world.  Praise be to you forever and ever, Holy Spirit along with God the Father and the Son!  Amen  Amish Prayers Beverly Lewis Bethany House Publishers Bloomington Minnesota pg 64 2011 

GOOD THING

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Billy Graham

Scripture

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13: 6-7 NIV

Song

Good Thing Going Carolyn Arends

http://youtu.be/_xmCBLGx4lk

We've got a good thing going so we've got to protect it

They say people lose it when they least expect it

Baby I know it's true-But I don't worry 'bout us

And all the friends we thought were gonna make it forever

They all ran into trouble and now they're not together

Baby I know it's sad-but I don't worry 'bout us

'Cause how could anybody turn my head

When my heart is forever lost to you

How could I fall into another's arms

When I've fallen so deep into a love so true

We've got a good thing going so we can't get lazy

Got to keep working at it, but then

You know I'm crazy for you

It's not so hard-so I don't worry about us

How could anybody turn my head

When my heart's forever lost to you

How could I fall into another's arms

When I've fallen so deep into a love so true

We've got a good thing going and we've got to protect it

Because there's nothing better, baby-don't you forget it

I know I never will, so I don't worry 'bout us

Oh no-baby I never will-I don't worry 'bout us

Sentence Prayer

Lord, help us to remember when we first met

And the strong love that grew between us.

To work that love into practical things

So nothing can divide us.

We ask for words both kind and loving.

And for hearts always ready to ask forgiveness.

As well as to forgive.

Dear Lord we put our marriage into your hands. Amen

(http://www.prayers-for-special-help.com/Relationship-Prayer.html)

ROMANCE

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French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Stephen King

Scripture

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. Genesis 2:24,25 NIV

Song

Sadie Hawkins Dance Reliant K

http://youtu.be/Vn5W1E6nI38

All the girls in the bathroom talking

who they gonna take to the Sadie Hawkins

My ears are burning but I kept on walking

smile on my face and an air guitar rocking

The Sadie Hawkins Dance

in my khaki pants

There's nothing better

oh oh oh

The girls ask the guys

it's always a surprise

There's nothing better

baby do you like my sweater?

Sitting in the back of my next class napping

Got up, gave a speech, then bowed to the clapping

Told a funny joke got the whole class laughing

think I got a tan from the light which I was basking

[x2:]

The Sadie Hawkins Dance

in my khaki pants

There's nothing better

oh oh oh

The girls ask the guys

it's always a surprise

There's nothing better

baby do you like my sweater?

Scan the cafeteria for some good seating

I found a good spot by the cheerleaders eating

The quarterback asked me if I'd like a beating

I said that's one thing I won't be needing

And since I'm rather smart and cunning

I took off down the next hall running

Only to get stopped by a girl so stunning

only to get stopped by a girl so stunning

She said, "You're smooth, and good with talking.

You're going with me to the Sadie Hawkins"

The Sadie Hawkins Dance

in my khaki pants

There's nothing better

oh oh oh

The girls ask the guys

it's always a surprise

There's nothing better

baby do you like my sweater?

The Sadie Hawkins Dance

in my khaki pants

There's nothing better

oh oh oh

The girls ask the guys

it's always a surprise

There's nothing better

baby do you like my sweater?

Sentence Prayer

Father, praise to you for making us male and female

Praise to you for making us fearfully and wonderfully

To be joined together in intimacy.

Jesus; you give Your life to purify your bride.  May I give my live to purifying and strengthening my lover.

Holy Spirit Give me a burning passion for the wife/husband of my youth.  Please stoke the ember of romance into a roaring fire.

Help us both grow so others may see your love for the church.

Amen  R.M.

MIRACLES

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.  Bill Cosby

Scripture

Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. Proverbs 21:21 NIV

Song

Two Sets of Jones  Big Tent Revival

http://youtu.be/KQE5PNRLZ40

This here's a song about two sets of Jones'

Rothchild, Evelyn, Rueben, and Sue

And just for discussion through random selection

We've chosen two couples who haven't a clue

Rothchild was lucky to marry so wealthy,

Evelyn bought him a house on the beach.

Rueben and Sue, they had nothing but Jesus

And at night they would pray that he would care for them each

Chorus:

And the rain, came down,

And it blew the forewalls down

And the clouds they rolled away

And one set of Jones', was standing that day

Evelyn's daddy was proud of young Rothchild,

He worked the late hours to be number one

Just newly weds and their marriage got rocky,

He's flying to Dallas, she's having a son.

Rueben was holding, a Giddeon's Bible,

And he screamed "it's a boy" so that everyone heard

And the guys at the factory took a collection,

And again God provided for bills he incured

(Chorus)

So what is the point of this story,

What am I trying to say

Well is your life built on the rock of Christ Jesus

Or a sandy foundation you've managed to lay

Well needless to say Evelyn left her husband

N' sued him for every penny he had

But I truly wish that those two would find Jesus

Before things get worse than they already have

(Chorus)

And the rain, came down,

And it blew the forewalls down

And the clouds they rolled away

There's two sets of jones'

Which ones will you be?

Li de di, li de di, li de di, li de di

Li de di, li de di, li de di, li de di

Li de di. li de di, li de di, li de di di di di

Sentence Prayer

Creator;

Praise be to You maker of heaven and earth

Praise be to You maker of Man and Woman

Thank you for my help mate;

Open my eyes to how I can burn with passion

For the lover of my youth.

May our union be good sketch of Your love

For the Bride of Christ.  Amen  R.M.

A.dore God as your maker and your spouses maker

C.onfess the times you have not been true to your spouse and God.

T.hank God for all the little things your help mate means to you!

S.upplication  Pray for those marriage is not working out so well.

EXTRAVAGANT LOVE

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Love is extravagant in the price it is willing to pay, the time it is willing to give, the hardships it is willing to endure, and the strength it is willing to spend. Joni Eareckson Tada

Scripture

And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. Mark 14:3 RSV

Song

Alabaster Box CECE Winans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ls8ZfeBmHA

The room grew still

As she made her way to Jesus

She stumbles through the tears that made her blind

She felt such pain

Some spoke in anger

Heard folks whisper

There's no place here for her kind

Still on she came

Through the shame that flushed her face

Until at last, she knelt before his feet

And though she spoke no words

Everything she said was heard

As she poured her love for the Master

From her box of alabaster

[Refrain]

And I've come to pour

My praise on Him

Like oil from Mary's alabaster box

Don't be angry if I wash his feet with my tears

And I dry them with my hair

You weren't there the night He found me

You did not feel what I felt

When he wrapped his love all around me and

You don't know the cost of the oil

In my alabaster box

I can't forget the way life used to be

I was a prisoner to the sin that had me bound

And I spent my days

Poured my life without measure

Into a little treasure box

I'd thought I'd found

Until the day when Jesus came to me

And healed my soul

With the wonder of His touch

So now I'm giving back to Him

All the praise He's worthy of

I've been forgiven

And that's why

I love Him so much

[Refrain]

And I've come to pour

My praise on Him

Like oil from Mary's alabaster box

Don't be angry if I wash his feet with my tears

And dry them with my hair (my hair)

You weren't there the night Jesus found me

You did not feel what I felt

When He wrapped his loving arms around me and

You don't know the cost of the oil

Oh, you don't know the cost of my praise

You don't know the cost of the oil

In my alabaster box

Sentence Prayer

Jesus;

I pour myself out to you

May my love for you

Be as priceless as Mary’s heart

Amen