“The Ten commandments are the rule of our life, the creed is the sum of our faith, and the Lord’s prayer is the pattern of our prayer”
Thomas Watson
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.”
Matthew 6: 9-13 ESV
Summer is beautiful here, the Lord has sent rain to clean the air we breath, the grass is green and the flowers are all in bloom. But the highlight of our summer has been taking the time to study more in depth about prayer.
I have been reading about prayer, and have been meditating about it. I still have more books on the shelf to read, but one thing is certain:
or should I say…
We should long to build a house of prayer…
What else could be more beautiful than that?
“If we only tried seriously to live up to our praying—it would have a powerful effect upon our character and conduct!.. If our lives were as good as our prayers, we would be saint-like in character.” J.R. Miller
“We often wonder . . .
why we fail,
why so little comes of our efforts,
why we do not get along better with people,
why we are not happy,
why joy is so lacking in our experience,
why we are so easily fretted and vexed,
why we are so discontented,
why we fall so easily into surliness and bad temper.
It is because we cease to pray!” J.R Miller
Related posts you can read in the former blog:
Day by Day
A Mom’s Prayer
From My Bible Reading -Nehemiah-
Would You Join Me in Prayer Today? –Bakwé Missions-
New Year’s Prayer
The beautiful photographs you see were taken by my precious daughter.
Such an amazing gift the Lord’s rain has brought!
We don’t know the name of this flower, it grew over on the road to our house, so if you know the name of this flower , please share it with us.
Daily On My Way to Heaven 
Becky, It is such a joy for me to see younger families with children such as yours leading them in this way.
I regret not being more consistent over all the years in a formal family worship time when we were raising our family. We would have “family devotions” as we called them in those days, for seasons and then would get lazy when circumstances changed. Although the Word of God and Christ and church were always central in our overall family focus and daily conversation, we did not have a consistent , formal family worship time year in and year out.
Looking back I believe this would have helped our children to develop solid personal habits as well as bringing Christ even more to the center of the home.
Thank you for sharing this.
Blessings dear sister!
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Awesome! 🙂
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