Week 6 Pave the Pathway with Prayer

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3

National Day of Prayer - May 7th

I Thessalonians 5:16-18

" Be joyful always;

pray continually;

give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."

Week 5 Our Battle Hymn

2 Corinthians 10:4

"The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds."

Helpful or Harmful

Good Morning! FYI It's 7:15 am eastern.

Read Matthew 14:22-33. Are you focusing on the things that can cause harm to the work Christ has set before you? Are you crying out to Him in your time of need? Why is it that we constantly are learning the lesson that if we just cry out to Jesus in our time of need He will immediately come to our rescue? And why do we get ourselves is the predicament that we become 'urgent' with our request? Ugh!

What is harmful to you as you pursue Christ? Doubt; Fear; Worry; Loss of Focus (on Jesus); Crowds (of the wrong kind).

What is helpful to you as you pursue Christ? Trust; "Getting out of the Boat"; Prayer (a crying out); Faith; Peace; Solitude (alone time with Christ away from people, different from feeling lonely - which we are never alone when our focus is on Christ).

My prayer: LORD, Save Me! Save me from my selfish ways.

Sleep

Hello its 7 am Eastern.

I wanted to let you know that I was in bed before 9pm and set my alarm for 6a and made myself stay in bed until it went off. I woke up before it went off but I don't knwo when because I refused to look at the clock. I was determined to stay at rest until 6a.

I did dream so I don't know really how much sleep I now feel really good about what I can accomplish today.

We read about how we need sleep just as much as we need to eat so doing both without starving either will help us make us strong to do what Christ has set before us.

Thank you for your prayers and encouragement. You guys helped me realize that I was not giving myself enough rest. Your commitment to the First Place meetings is crucial to helping each other through these times when we cannot see looking out but you can see looking in.

Love,
Leigh Anne