A Note from Our Friend Pat

No matter how busy we become, we must set aside time which is quiet and undisturbed - time where we can enter into the presence of God, worship Him, and listen. God desires to encourage us and give us clear direction today. Let's love Him with all our heart and listen intently for His gentle whisper.

Psalm 14

Psalm 14

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 14

For the director of music. Of David. ¹ The fool^[a] says in his heart,
   “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
   there is no one who does good.
 ² The LORD looks down from heaven
   on all mankind
to see if there are any who understand,
   any who seek God.
³ All have turned away, all have become corrupt;
   there is no one who does good,
   not even one.
 ⁴ Do all these evildoers know nothing?
   They devour my people as though eating bread;
   they never call on the LORD.
⁵ But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,
   for God is present in the company of the righteous.
⁶ You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,
   but the LORD is their refuge.
 ⁷ Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
   When the LORD restores his people,
   let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 14:1 The Hebrew words rendered fool in Psalms denote one who is morally deficient.

Updated Daily Prayer Conversation with God

Good Morning Papa God,

Dear Papa,

I thank you for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me. Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you. I ask now for Your forgiveness.

Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day to clear my mind so that I can hear from you.

Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over. Let me continue to see sin through Your eyes and acknowledge it as evil. And when I sin, let me repent, and confess with my mouth of my wrongdoing, and receive  forgiveness.

When this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus' example -- to slip away and find a quiet place to pray. It's the best response when I'm pushed beyond my limits. I know that when I can't pray, You listen to my heart. Continue to use me to do Your will.

Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong that I may help the weak. Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others. I pray for those who are lost and can't find their way. I pray for those who are misjudged and misunderstood. I pray for those who don't know You intimately. I pray for those who don't believe. But I thank you that I believe.

I believe that You change people and You change things for good reasons. I pray for all my sisters and brothers, for each and every one of my family members and friends and their families. I pray for peace, love and joy in their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs are met.

I pray that they know there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than You. Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight. I pray that these words be received into your heart.

In Jesus Name.

Ps 143:8-12

8 Cause me to hear Your loving-kindness in the morning, for on You do I lean and in You do I trust. Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for I lift up my inner self to You.

9 Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies; I flee to You to hide me.

                     

10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; let Your good Spirit lead me into a level country and into the land of uprightness.

11 Save my life, O Lord, for Your name's sake; in Your righteousness, bring my life out of trouble and free me from distress.

12 And in your mercy and loving-kindness, cut off my enemies and destroy all those who afflict my inner self, for I am Your servant.

Ps 139:13-18 NIV

13 For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me

were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

Matt 7:7-8

7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

I am asking that I may walk so close to you that I can hear your heart beat and know who you are and know the works of your Hands. I want to know you.

Help me to accept me for who and what I am.

As I becoming real this means I need to accept myself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

I acknowledging that in God's eyes I am a work-in-progress.

Please give me a heart to want to decrease so you could and would increase in me.      

Thank you Papa

So I am Asking Papa, please show me what is blocking our relationship and blessings. What do I need to change?

Thank you for showing me the abundance you have already given me. Please clean the garbage out of my life. Please show me how to access and walk in the Glorious abundance you have stored up for me. Help me to break down walls so I can accept, and absorb the abundant love you have for me and the others you have placed in my life so I will be so full of you that your love will just pour out of me.

You said I would be blessed to abundance, (like a freight train coming at me full speed) overwhelming abundance. Please show me what do I need to do different?

Show me what would be blocking your abundant blessings on me.

Papa, Thank you that you have forgiven me for setting myself up as judge, jury and jailer.

I do not want to be an angry judgmental person and have my prayers blocked and blessings to be hindered. I understand you will not bless angry people.

Thank you for forgiving my anger, frustration and self pity and for showing me how to deal with them. Please free me from all of these things and as soon as I start to come out from under you blessing and covering please stop me, so I can repent and retreat back to you.

Please help me.

Give me wisdom.

Trim a way anything in me that hinders your love.

In Jesus Name.

Amen.

I am asking you to break wide open the flood gates that are holding back the blessing you want to give us.

Ps 28:1-3

UNTO YOU do I cry, O Lord my Rock, be not deaf and silent to me, lest, if You be silent to me, I become like those going down to the pit [the grave].

2 Hear the voice of my supplication as I cry to You for help, as I lift up my hands toward Your innermost sanctuary (the Holy of Holies).

3 Drag me not away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but malice and mischief are in their hearts.

Psalm 139 17-18

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them,

they would out number the grains of sand.

When I awake, I am still with you.

Papa please forgive me for all my sins I want nothing between you and I. Open my eyes and ears, pull back your veil (curtain) so we can speak clearly to each other, I want to be able to hear your heart beat and know your secret things and what you want me to share and not share.

In Jesus name.

Amen

Eph 3:14-21

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 6:10-20

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

11 Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,

15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.

16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

19 Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.

Papa, You said in Psalm 20:4 NIV

4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

My heart is to see souls saved Papa, so that no one will be lost.

Israel and America:

The Bible states in Isaiah 54:17 that “no weapon against Israel will prosper.” I hold this scripture before your throne o God as I ask you Papa to be merciful to your people, Israel. I am asking for you to defend Israel from being split in two.

May there be peace in your beloved, Israel.

I Thank you for all you have done, all you are doing, and all you are going to do in Israel, America and the world.

Please have mercy on us for the sake of the Christians and Messianic Jews. 

Protect us from our own leaders that want to give away our rights and try to squelch our freedom of speech, So many people fought and died for.

I pray for our Leadership that they would be willing to hear you and would respond in the way you would have them to. Give them the measurer of faith to know and accept the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

Papa I ask that they would rebuild the temple in Israel.

I pray Messiah that you would speak to your chosen, the Jewish people  give them dreams, visions and visitations of who you are.

Tell them how much you love them.

Draw them to you. Let them know you are the Messiah they are looking for and who will and wants to save them. Let your voice be heard through out the streets of Israel and the entire world asyou lift the veil off your beloved people and give them a chance to turn there hearts back to you.

I pray that all the descendents of Abraham will all come together at this time and rejoice in Jerusalem and worship you in unity and truth.

Saying: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

Thank you Papa, for the release of your revival fire in the city of Jerusalem, the nation of Israel and the entire world.

The Bible states in Isaiah 54:17 that “no weapon against Israel will prosper.” I hold this scripture before your throne o God as I ask you Papa to be merciful to your people, Israel

World Governments and Peoples:

Papa Please forgive us for disappointing you.

I have herd you are deeply saddened with the state of world Governments.

Please forgive us.

Please make yourself known to us in a way we cannot deny your existence.

So everyone across the world would say Jehovah God is the only true God and He is real and alive today.

Papa the Islamist strategy of world domination is largely misunderstood by naïve politicians open there eyes to this agenda.

This is why I am asking for our President as well as all of our government officials across the world to be given dreams and visions showing them what you want them to know. Please show them how to stop the radical Muslim Ghad.

I pray Papa that you would speak to the Muslims, giving them dreams, visions and visitations of who you are. Tell them how much you love them.

Draw them to you.

Let them know you are the one and only true God who will and wants to save them.

I pray for, Sudan that your will be done there. That slavery and rapes and murder would end.

I pray for Russia, China, North/South Korea, the middle east and all the countries of the world.

Prayers for the Family

Papa You said in Psalm 20:4 NIV

4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

In Matt 7:7-11 NIV 7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

9 "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Pray for your Family by There name.

Papa I thank you that Insert name here and there family is doing well.

I ask that they will see You pour out your spirit upon them That they will develop a heart for you, Your Word, and Your ways That they will grow in wisdom, discernment, and revelation. That they will find freedom, restoration, and wholeness That they will understand Your purpose for their lives That they will work successfully and have financial stability That they will have a sound mind and a right attitude That they will resist evil influences and destructive behavior That they will avoid all sexual pollution and temptation That they will experience good health and God's healing That they will enjoy a successful marriage and godly children That they will maintain strong and fulfilling relationships That they will be protected and survive tough times That they will walk into the future God has for them. Open up there minds and spirit so they will understand how and what to pray for.

Help them to understand each others cultures. End the strife between them.

Thanks Papa that they will have good sleep, rest and peace through the night and through things and seasons of life that surpasses everything they could understand.

Thanks, in Jesus name. So-be-it

Today We Join With Operation World in Praying for

Nauru

Republic of Nauru

Pacific

See Prayer Information

Geography

Area: 21 sq km
A raised coral atoll ringed with sandy beaches, with a central plateau of phosphates from fossilized bird droppings; 300 km west of Banaba, Kiribati.
Population: 10,254    Annual Growth: 0.28%
Capital: None, but administrative centre in Yaren
Urbanites: 100%

Peoples

Official language: Nauruan, English    Languages: 9 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	9,382	91.50	0.3
Evangelicals	1,245	12.1	2.3

Answer to Prayer

Offshore banking on the Internethas been shut down, having been revealed as a front for the money-laundering activities of Russian criminals. It was a courageous move, forfeiting the flow of money through the country - an amount approaching tens of billions of dollars per year. Pray that God may reward the prioritizing of righteousness over riches.

Challenge for Prayer

Economic meltdown has struck this tiny nation. After years of boom, Nauru has gone bust. The mining industry is a shadow of its former self, and the two other major income sources have also dried up. Almost all food must be imported, and freshwater supplies are insufficient. Half of the indigenous population has diabetes; 90% are overweight and unemployed. Pray for sustainable economic solutions that will provide livelihoods for those making the island their home.
     For an additional Challenge for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

More Information

The Operation World book, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM provide far more information and fuel for prayer for the people of Nauru.

Luke 15 (with text - press on more info.)

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 15

A psalm of David. ¹ LORD, who may dwell in your sacred tent?
   Who may live on your holy mountain?
 ² The one whose walk is blameless,
   who does what is righteous,
   who speaks the truth from their heart;
³ whose tongue utters no slander,
   who does no wrong to a neighbor,
   and casts no slur on others;
⁴ who despises a vile person
   but honors those who fear the LORD;
who keeps an oath even when it hurts,
   and does not change their mind;
⁵ who lends money to the poor without interest;
   who does not accept a bribe against the innocent.
   Whoever does these things
   will never be shaken.