You are a child of God and it is God's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. This kingdom includes everything you need to live an abundant life.
It is God's good pleasure to provide me with an abundant life.
I take a gentle breath and feel God's presence surrounding me and filling me with love. In my mind's eye, I see God lovingly giving me a beautiful package. As I open the package I see that my gift is perfect health & healing, confidence & self-love,
opportunity & wealth, and creativity & special talents. I easily accept these gifts from God that will assure my life is abundant.
I imagine these gifts easily maifesting into my outer life. I see myself enjoying health, confidence, self-love, opportunity, wealth, creativity and special talents. I thank God for these gifts and for meeting my every need. I combine these images with the feelings of joy and let them go, knowing that they will create the good things I am visualizing and thinking.
Thursday, 18 December 2008
Thursday, 4 December 2008
A prayer of Thanks
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
As you reflect on your life you’ll see the mercy of God woven into the tapestry of your experiences. He has graced you with prosperity from his hand, healing from his lips and comfort from his touch. Guard against becoming consumed with the enjoyment of blessings that giving thanks to him becomes simply an afterthought or forgotten. Worship is a lifestyle, not a momentary experience.
A prayer of thanks
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
For each new morning with its light,
Father, we thank you,
For rest and shelter of the night,
Father, we thank you,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything your goodness sends,
Father, in heaven, we thank you.
As you reflect on your life you’ll see the mercy of God woven into the tapestry of your experiences. He has graced you with prosperity from his hand, healing from his lips and comfort from his touch. Guard against becoming consumed with the enjoyment of blessings that giving thanks to him becomes simply an afterthought or forgotten. Worship is a lifestyle, not a momentary experience.
A prayer of thanks
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
For each new morning with its light,
Father, we thank you,
For rest and shelter of the night,
Father, we thank you,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything your goodness sends,
Father, in heaven, we thank you.
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
The Fast before the Nativity
In the Malankara Church, this fast lasts for 25 days, from the first of December till the Christmas day, and all the faithful observe it with great vigour.
Fasting must be undertaken voluntarily and it must be of divine dispensation’. This is the primary teaching of our Church on Fasting. Fasting becomes highly acceptable when it is joined with humility of hearts, charity towards all men and continuous prayers. The Lenten prayers and liturgy of our Church extols this kind of fasting by giving the Old Testament figures as good examples (Moses, Daniel, Elijah etc.).
Fasting is the root by which all the fruits of sanctity are sustained and on this same root grows purity, delights virginity and rejoices patience. Fasting dispels immodesty, controls the lust and offers the body as a holy temple of God. Therefore, the Church exhorts the faithful to love and practice this highly acceptable form of Christian life. Through fasting, the strength of the soul is confirmed, the riches of the body are increased and good aspirations are aroused in the heart.
Fasting must be undertaken voluntarily and it must be of divine dispensation’. This is the primary teaching of our Church on Fasting. Fasting becomes highly acceptable when it is joined with humility of hearts, charity towards all men and continuous prayers. The Lenten prayers and liturgy of our Church extols this kind of fasting by giving the Old Testament figures as good examples (Moses, Daniel, Elijah etc.).
Fasting is the root by which all the fruits of sanctity are sustained and on this same root grows purity, delights virginity and rejoices patience. Fasting dispels immodesty, controls the lust and offers the body as a holy temple of God. Therefore, the Church exhorts the faithful to love and practice this highly acceptable form of Christian life. Through fasting, the strength of the soul is confirmed, the riches of the body are increased and good aspirations are aroused in the heart.
Promises
Psalm 31:3
Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
Let God's promises shine on your problems. Words of hope and encouragement from the Bible to bless and protect those Who Seek His Face.
1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.
Psalm 25:9
He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and will be secure, without fear of evil.
Proverbs 3:5
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 your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:6
in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 6:22
When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
Isaiah 58:11
The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
Luke 11:9-10
"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
1 Cor. 10:13
...God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Philippians 2:13
It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
Let God's promises shine on your problems. Words of hope and encouragement from the Bible to bless and protect those Who Seek His Face.
1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.
Psalm 25:9
He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and will be secure, without fear of evil.
Proverbs 3:5
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 your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:6
in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 6:22
When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
Isaiah 58:11
The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
Luke 11:9-10
"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
1 Cor. 10:13
...God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Philippians 2:13
It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
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