One yellow daffodil outside a brick building. Alone.
When you are alone, remember God has said: “I will never leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).”
He is always there to hear your prayer.
Good work continues in locked-down Chicago. The ultimate good work is prayer. “Prayer is the work. Ministry is the fruit.”*
Let’s remain faithful!
*Ben Patterson, Deepening Your Conversation with God.
This sign stops cars. Covid-19 stops people. As you’re stopped, pause and consider:
Just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people (Hebrews 9:27-28).
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16 bold mine).
You can pray, believing.
Conceived
and wanted.
Prayed for
Loved.
Mother
with father beside her
delivered
baby girl;
named her Jaema Kaye.
Now we praise.
Through prayer,
sharing God’s joy.
For baby,
our granddaughter,
Who is loved by God.
Conceived
yet unwanted.
A handful of us
who knew prayed.
Mother
abruptly
ended
baby’s
life.
Now we mourn.
Through prayer,
sharing God’s sorrow.
For baby.
For mother.
For grandmother.
Who are loved by God.
I called upon the Lord . . . and my cry reached his ears (Psalm 18:6).
“Prayer is the link that connects us with God. It is the bridge that spans every gulf and carries us safely over every chasm of danger or need.”*
*L.B. Cowman, Streams in the Desert, p. 412.
Jesus went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone (Matthew 14:23).
“Oh, the thought of having God all alone to myself, and knowing that God has me all alone to Himself!”*
*Andrew Murray as quoted in Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman, p. 403.
