Welcome! I'm so glad that you're here. I'm Michelle, the founder of Pray God's Way. My mission is to help women grow closer to God through prayer and Bible study. I encourage you to pray more confidently, more frequently, more intimately, more boldly, and more expectantly. Check out my About Page to learn more, peruse some past posts, and subscribe if you'd like to receive regular email content. (When you subscribe, please check your inbox to confirm that you want to receive emails from me. Otherwise, you'll probably never hear from me again. š) I hope to "see" you in our Pray God's Way family! BLESSINGS, Michelle | To God Be The Glory
As we enter the season of giving . . .
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As we enter this season of giving, what do you give someone who has everything? We typically think about this question in the context of well-off parents or grandparents who don't need one more material thing. But I challenge you today to think about the question in the context of God. What do you give Someone who has everything? God literally owns everything. He gave us everything that we haveālife, material items, talents, spiritual gifts, even people. When someone gives me a gift, I am grateful and want to thank the giver with a gift of equal or greater value. Yet, as I write this, I feel compelled to sing The Little Drummer Boy. I have no gifts to bring. I don't even know how to play a drum! The Bible tells us what God wants: Your heart You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Matthew 22:37
Your time So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16 and Your obedience Whoever says āI know himā but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.
1 John 2:4-5
God wants a relationship with you. He wants you to know Him. See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1
LET'S PRAY Heavenly Father, You have given me life, salvation, family, friends, and everything I own. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. But I have no gifts that are fit for the King of kings and Lord of lords. So I will give you my heart. I will abide in Your Word and pray. I will learn Your commandments, do my best to follow them, and confess and repent when I fail. You are my Father, and I am Your child. I can do nothing and want to do nothing without You. In Your Son's, my Savior's, Name, Amen Reader, If you have not given your heart to Jesus yet, please consider praying Romans 10:9 below. If you have any questions, please reply so I can help. During the month of December, let's focus on abiding in and obeying God together. Please see my invitation below, and let's enjoy this Advent season together! AN INVITATION I love to read the Book of Luke in December. I read one chapter each day, and by Christmas Eve, I've read the whole book (24 chapters): From Jesus' birth through His Resurrection and Ascension. If you'd like to join me, click on the Yes option as your answer (to the poll) below. You're only committing to reading (independently) one chapter a day and, possibly, receiving a mid-week email or two. Staying in the Word during this busy time of year puts everything from the world into perspective. I'd love for you to join me!
Blessings, Michelle | To God Be The Glory Helping women nurture a deeper relationship with our one and only living God through prayer and the Bible
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Pray God's Way
Welcome! I'm so glad that you're here. I'm Michelle, the founder of Pray God's Way. My mission is to help women grow closer to God through prayer and Bible study. I encourage you to pray more confidently, more frequently, more intimately, more boldly, and more expectantly. Check out my About Page to learn more, peruse some past posts, and subscribe if you'd like to receive regular email content. (When you subscribe, please check your inbox to confirm that you want to receive emails from me. Otherwise, you'll probably never hear from me again. š) I hope to "see" you in our Pray God's Way family! BLESSINGS, Michelle | To God Be The Glory
In my last post, I talked about creating a List of Rights about someone or something rather than keeping a List of Wrongs. [Love] keeps no record of wrongs.1 Corinthians 13:5d NIV During my prayer time this week, I realized that Iāve been keeping a different kind of List of Wrongs. I call it the List of Gone Wrongs, as in, this and that have gone wrong. I donāt know about you, but when Iām in a spiritual valley, I notice everything that goes wrong. Nothing gets past me! I was feeling like...
When we were teenagers, my friend and I used to save the āLove Isā comic from the newspaper each week. They were sweet little cartoons about everyday secular loving and living š„°. But in 1 Corinthians 13, the Bible tells us what real, holy, unconditional love is. āļø Today, I'm focusing on a small portion of one verse, so we can make a simple but not so easy change in our lives. . . . [Love] keeps no record of wrongs. 1 Corinthians 13:5d NIV This verse is about God's forgiveness . . . an...
As I mentioned in last week's email, I'm reading a chapter a day in the Book of Luke as is my tradition each December. Any time I read the Bible, I learn something new or recall something that I've heard but have forgotten. This week was no different. In Luke chapter 2, Jesus is presented at the temple. Babies were not baptized, but they were brought to the temple to be dedicated to the Lord (Luke 2:22-23). The prophet Simeon "took him [Jesus] up in his arms and blessed God . . ." (Luke 2:28)...