Daily Devotional – 10/20/12 Day 7 “Prayer for the weary”

Our Father,

As I come petitioning your throne on Day 7 of our prayer fast, I’ve got to thank you once again. I’m thanking you for giving me a regulated mind that is stayed on you. God, I thank you because my storm has become harder during this fasting of prayer but you never let me down so my faith, in you, never wavered. God, thank you for never taking your hands off of me and for always being a whisper away. Now, God I ask you to send a special blessing to the person reading this because they’re coming to you for a specific thing today, so God have your way in their life now. Grant them the request they’ve been crying out for. God, if its healing send it now because I know that you’re capable of doing surgery without cutting open the flesh; I know you’re able to heal a broken heart without doing a triple bypass and I know you’re able to regulate blood pressure without medicine. God, if its a financial blessing that they stand in need of now, send it like only you can because I know that you’re able to given them an increase in their bank account without them applying for a loan; you’re able to zero out balances without making a payment and able to release debt without a second thought. God, I know you’re able to do it now. Father, for the person whose burying a loved one, for the one making funeral arrangements, for the one searching for a loved one and for the one whose loved one is consumed by an addiction; comfort them today. God, send hope to the person whose hope is slowly leaving, send joy to the person whose allowed the world to take theirs away, send love to the person whose only felt hurt from others and guide the person whose taken the wrong turn on their journey. God, somebody wants to know you but they’re too concerned about what others say, somebody wants to come back to you but they are too scared to let the world go and someone is fighting the calling you’ve placed over their life but I know that you’re able to deliver them on today. God someone is fighting a battle that’s not theirs to fight, strengthen them on today. Someone is about to give up because they can’t seem to stop drowning but I know you’re a life jacket in the time of need. Someone is about to give in because they feel like they can’t hold on to the cliff they’ve fallen over but I know you to be a cushion when they fall. Someone is about to let go of their rope because its breaking but I know you’re able to give them the strength they need to reach beyond the break. God someone’s legs is buckling under the pressures of the burdens that are on their shoulders but I know you’re able to help them carry them even without them knowing it. God, I ask you to do it now because I’m claiming victory! Yes sir, I’m claiming that we shall not be defeated in this round because you are patiently waiting to be tagged in. Yes, I’m claiming that we shall not be moved while in our storm because you’re the best raincoat that we can have. Yes, I am claiming victory during our sickness, our financial troubles, our heartaches, situations, circumstances, trials and tribulations because there isn’t anyone who can do us better than you! God, I thank you now and I’m still believing this things and I’m still claiming these things and I’m still speaking these things because you’ve given me the power too! Do it God! Do it God! Do it God! These things I ask in your name, in Jesus name and in the name of the Holy Ghost. Amen

Daily Devotional – 10/19/12 “Daily Prayer – Day 6 “Finances”

Our Father in Heaven,

As our petition your throne today I thank you for all you’ve done for me and God I even thank you for those things you haven’t done because they weren’t meant for me. God I thank you for my family, my friends and even my enemies because they make me stronger. God, I come today praying for the financial situation of your people. Somebody is struggling to pay their bills and no matter how hard they work they just can’t seem to push their way through, God do it for them now. Somebody got paid today and their checking account is still negative but I know that you’re able to turn it around to positive, so I ask you to do it if it’s in your will. God, somebody needs their medicine, somebody needs to see the doctor, somebody needs a lawyer and somebody is hungry and they can’t afford it; provide for them today like only you can. God, somebody has money in their pocket but steals from others; deliver them now. Deliver the mother who is drinking and the dad who is smoking away their children’s future. Deliver the one who finds it easy to steal from their grandma/momma. God I know that you can do it. Father, somebody is sitting now trying to figure out how to pay their rent that is late, make a way for them now. Someone is crying because they have to go to court with no money and no lawyer, make a way for them now. Someone needs money for surgery, chemo, dialysis, high blood pressure medicine or insulin; God make a way for them now. Yea God! I’m petitioning today for all the prayer requests that need to be heard today. God I come asking you to make this a fruitful Friday. God turn negatives into positives, turn the no on yesterday to a yes on today and increase balances and decrease debt. God, I know you can and I believe you will because you said ask and it shall be given. God, I am asking you to bless the person whose been praying for a job. God someone has been trying to get their mortgage or car loan refinanced, do it for them. Someone has been trying to get a loan to restore their credit or pay off bills, do it God! Somebody filed bankruptcy and still can’t get ahead but I know that you’re able to wipe out debt and clear credit reports so I ask that you do it now. God I claim victory and I declare victory and payoffs over high mortgages/rent, high light bills, check advances, title loans, personal loans, credit card debts, overdrawn accounts and short checks. God I know that we get ourselves in debt by spending when we shouldn’t and going when we really couldn’t and wanting instead of needing but God I’m asking for help on today. Show us how to be lenders and not borrowers and how to first instead of last. God show us how to not beg but how to save. God show us how to multiply what we have so that we won’t be in debt any more. God do it now! Father, I ask you to bless the business of your child that’s on the verge of closing because I know that you can change it. Bless the business of your child who has just opened it in your name; make it profitable if it’s your will. Oh, God I ask you now to bless my testimony that is my book, blog and eBook so that it is fruitful and that it touches the lives of all those who need to read your word. God I ask these things because I believe that it is already done. God, thank you now for the blessing you’re getting ready to send. God I thank you for the finances you’re getting ready to increase and for the debts you’re about to write off. God I’m thanking you for my financial increase and my debt that you’re going to erase even before it’s done because I believe that is shall be! God move in the lives of your people now like I know you can and will! Do it God. Deliver God! Increase oh God! And bless your people now. And God, I pray a special prayer now for comfort and for strength for the family and friends of Karen Thomas whose life was taken so senselessly. God, guide the hearts of the family so that they may forgive the one whose hands have caused this pain. Then God cover and protect her children who are now motherless. I know you can. Oh God, I submit this prayer to you and I believe it to be done. Amen!

Daily Devotional – 10/18/12 “Daily Prayer – Day 5 “Children” “

Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come on Earth as it is in Heaven. God, it is once again that I petition your throne this day; first to thank you for all the blessings that I’ve already received that are too numerous to count. Then God I must thank you because you woke me up this morning, regulated my mind, gave me full use of my limbs, allowed all my senses to work the way they are supposed to, gave me an appetite and then food to eat, you blessed me with a car to drive and then money to put gas in it, you blessed me with a job and then strength to go to it and you gave me joy that this mean world can’t take away. God, I thank you. Now, Father I come this morning standing in the gap praying for our children because they need you more than ever before. Gangs are growing and education is slowing; violence is greater and common sense is being pushed off until later; disobedience is more and respectfulness is out the door, parents aren’t parenting and kids aren’t listening; God, we need you here. God, I am asking you to bind peer pressure, bullying, teenage pregnancy, STDs, HIV, gang violence, disobedient attitudes and disrespectful tongues. Release the grip that social networking has placed around the necks of our children and remove the desire to steal, rob, kill, lying and cheating from their hearts and minds. Remove the taste of cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and ecstasy and prescription drugs from their mouths. God protect the child who has to go home to an abusive father/mother, the one who goes home with no food to eat, no lights to see how to do their homework, no warm water to bathe in, no warm house to sleep in, no clean clothes and decent shoes to wear. God protect the daughter who has to sell her body in order to eat and protect the son who has to steal to provide for his younger brothers/sisters. God comfort the children whose mother has died and now they are left without a home. Wipe the tears of the child who has never known their daddy yet they are longing too. Heal the child that is fighting cancer, juvenile diabetes, lupus, arthritis, sickle cell and strengthen their bodies to be able to handle the treatments that seem to be taking a toll on them daily and give their parents the necessary blessings they need to endure these trials with them. Father, some child somewhere is contemplating suicide because of social networking; bind that spirit. Father, some child has already taken their life because of the meanness of others; strengthen the family they’ve left behind. Father, some girl is pregnant and has yet to seek medical attention because she is afraid, guide her now. Some young man is thinking about joining a gang because he doesn’t have the love at home like the streets give but God, show him that you are love and you’ll be all that he needs. Some child is being sexually molested by someone who is supposed to love them, oh God, shine the light on this dark situation so that he/she may get help and that monster put in jail. For the child who is struggling in school and thinking about dropping out, send someone into their lives to help them today. For the child who is homeless, send help for them now. For the child who has no one to talk too, send them someone that can teach them about you. God, a child now is dealing with the sickness of grandma when she has been all they’ve known; strengthen them. God I ask you now to bind the hands and minds of those who choose to harm our children. Touch that teacher who goes above and beyond for her students to ensure they survive in this mean world, give them the blessings to continue to be a blessing. Fill the gap for the child missing their mom or dad and even the one who feels like they are all alone. For the young adult who is in college, strengthen their minds with knowledge so that they continue even when the going seems to be getting harder. For the young adult who is working, touch their minds to save instead of always spending. For the young adult whose heart has been broken by someone they thought loved them, show them that healing is only a heartbeat away. God, I again today, stand in the gap for our children claiming victory over their lives because they shall not lose; they shall not be defeated because I claim defeat over the enemy who seems to distract them so easy. I am claiming victory over their lives so that they get to know you in the midst of their sins. God, I am asking you now to do these things for our children. Bless the babies that are being born into this mean world so that their days may be happy, healthy and blessed. Bless now, heal now, cover and protect now, sustain their minds and guide their walk while lighting their path. Do these things like I know you’re able to do because I am asking like they’ve already been done. This prayer I submit to you. Amen

Daily Devotional – 10/17/12 “Daily Prayer – Day 4 Marriage”

Our Father in Heaven,

It is me once again petitioning your throne with praise in my heart and thanksgiving on my lips. God, I come to you humble because you didn’t have to let my eyes open to see this new day but you did. You didn’t have to allow me a mind to want to pray for others but you have, so I’ve got to thank you. You didn’t have to bless me with your anointing but you did, so I must thank you. God somebody is wishing for this gift I have, yet you deemed me worthy of it, so I shall not stop using it because if you continue to use me, Father, I will continue to be used until the day you close my eyes to open no more, my hands to work no more, stop my feet from moving, my heart from beating and my brain from functioning. God, I must work for you because you work for me. Now, oh God, I come to you in prayer today on behalf of marriages because many have forgotten the terms of the contract they’ve entered into. God, divorce rates are up because there aren’t enough of us down on our knees so we need you more than ever because husbands are no longer providing and wives are barely surviving. Husbands don’t love like they should and wives don’t support like they could. Husbands are supposed to be the head yet they are standing in the back because they’re scared of the nagging wife who is too stubborn to learn what her role really is. Oh, God we’re on a downward spiral and we need your guidance. Deliver the minds of the husbands and wives who find it easier to walk away instead of growing stronger in their storms, deliver the husband who has turned to alcohol instead of his wife after losing his job, deliver the wife who has turned to prescription drugs instead of her husband after the diagnosis of breast cancer, deliver the mind of the husband who finds joy belittling the wife that God has blessed him with and the wife who finds joy in beating her husband down with her negative attitude instead of helping him back up. God, deliver the mind of the husband who is too stubborn and mean because his wife makes more money than him and deliver the mind of the wife who finds it easy to spend all the money simply because it is there without even thinking of the household. God, heal the marriages that are on the verge of divorce, if it is in your plan. Heal the pain that has been caused by adultery, lying and stealing. Heal the hate that has been caused by past relationships that are now causing hell in the new relationships. God, strength every husband who believes in you so that his Christian life is stronger, so that he can be the head of his household, so that he can pray over his family without being ashamed, praise in the midst of his storms without caring about whose looking, so that he can admire/compliment his wife without harsh criticism, make her smile when he walks into a room and make her feel like a million bucks even though she is dressed in Wal-Mart clothes, so that he can raise sons who wants to follow in his footsteps and so that he can continue to work for you. God strength every wife who believes in you so that her Christian life is stronger, so that she won’t be ashamed to stand behind her husband who is the head, so that her prayer life is stronger in order to pray over her family, so that she can rejoice in the midst of their storm no matter who is looking, so that she can shout even when times are good, so that she can teach her daughters how to be a helpmate instead of always being hellish, so that she can pick up the pieces when her spouse needs helps, take care of her family during sickness, feed her family with just a few morsels of food, make her husband feel like he is a King on a poor man’s salary, who isn’t ashamed to shop at Goodwill to clothe her family or the Foodbank to feed her family and who isn’t scared to stand with her husband when the world is telling her to leave. God I am claiming victory over divorces because we shall not be defeated. God, I’m claiming victory over physical, mental and emotional abuse from those who find it so easy to give it out. God, you’ve given me the power so I claim victory right now to erase debt, past due notices, overdrawn bank accounts, cutoff notices, title loans, check advances, student loans, overpriced mortgages/rent and car loans and hospital bills. I am asking you to bless those who have stepped out on faith and started a business; allow them to means to make it fruitful so they have a legacy to leave their children and grandchildren. I am asking that you grant the requests of those who have applied for a loan they so desperately need right now because I know that you have the ultimate authority to stamp approve even when man wants to say no. Do it now God. Somebody is standing at the bedside of their spouse, over their casket or even at their gravesite right now but I know that you are able to give them the strength they stand in the need of now. Comfort those who need to feel your arms around them, give hope to those who feel theirs slipping away and wipe the tears of those who can’t seem to stop theirs from flowing. God do it now because I know that you can and I believe that you will. God I am claiming these things as if it is already done. Husbands will not be defeated! Wives will not be defeated! Marriages will not be defeated because I am speaking all these things as though they are. Yea, you might not have money in the bank and all your bills are due but you will not be defeated. You may be sick and tired of going through but you shall not lose. Your body may even be filled with pain but you will not die. I am speaking deliverance over your life, your marriage, your situation and your battle RIGHT NOW! You will not die but you shall live! You will not be hungry but you shall eat! You will not be broke but you shall prosper! You shall live! You shall overcome! You shall reap from a harvest that is plentiful and never ends IF YOU BELIEVE. Oh God I thank you for prayer and now I submit this too because it shall be so; in your name God. Amen

Daily Devotional – 10/16/12 “Daily Prayer – Day 3, For women”

A prayer for women

Our Father, holy is thy name; may your kingdom come on Earth as it is in Heaven. Thank you, God, for allowing another chance to see this day that wasn’t promised. Thank you for giving me another opportunity to petition your throne of mercy and for letting me get up from my sleep with the activity of all the limbs you saw fit for me to have. Thank you for letting me find my family alive and well, for the air that I breathe, the sun that’s shining, the few clouds that are in the sky, the birds that are singing and the wind that’s blowing. God, thank you for the small things that many take for granted on a daily basis. Now, oh God, I come to you today praying for the women of this world, for they need your strength to carry on, they need your direction to walk on, they need your comfort to hold on and they need your hope to help on. God, somebody is fighting a battle that is not theirs to fight, give her the confidence she needs to walk away victorious even though she may be deemed a loser in man’s eyes. God, somebody is dealing with the pressures of being a single mother, she can’t seem to keep food on the table, her lights on, her car note or rent paid, the medicine she needs, she can’t take the kids to the dentist/doctor like they need to go and she can’t buy them the clothes/shoes they need but show her now that you are her provider. God, some mother has been up all night long crying because she had to say goodbye to her child who was killed due to violence, comfort her like only you can. Then comfort the mother who is searching for a missing child because no one can understand the pain that she is feeling at this very moment. Now, God, go into the hospitals and sit with the mother who is sitting by the bedside of the child the doctors have given up on, wrap your arms around the mother who is waiting on the surgeon to return, the one who just received the news that the cancer has returned and the one who hasn’t had sleep in days because the chemo is taking a toll on their child’s body. God, protect the woman who is being abused and too afraid to leave, show her the way out. Protect the mother who has to work all night long, allow her to make it home safely every night. Guide the mother who has lost her way and too scared to ask for help. Deliver the woman who has thoughts of suicide when it seems like she is being knocked down every way she turns. Deliver the teacher who is standing in front of a class after drinking all night long. Deliver the principal who finds courage from the drugs she is pushing through her veins. Deliver the lawyer who finds joy sleeping with other women’s husbands. Deliver the executive who has a desire for young boys or girls. Deliver the police officer who abuses her power by abusing others. Deliver the minister who is spreading false doctrine to a congregation she is supposed to guide. God, do it like only you can because the women are getting weaker and we need your strength. Build them up to be the woman of their house, build them up so that they can pick up the pieces and live when their hearts have been broken, build them up so that when friends walk away, they’ll keep walking on and build them up so that they can take care of their household when their husband is no longer there. God, build up their self-esteem so that they pull down their dresses and become the virtuous woman you speak about in your word. Build up her self-confidence so that she knows she is beautiful every time she looks in the mirror. God, go in now and remove the hate that she has held against her daddy so that she can see the love in her man, remove the hurt from all the things she has been through in her past so that she can trust folk again, remove the gossip from her lips so that she can help folk and remove the judgment from her eyes so that she can see the good in folk. Oh, God I thank you for making women stronger, for making us wiser, for making us willing to work for you, for making us helpers of men, for making our shoulders strong enough to carry the burdens of this world, for making our knees strong enough to endure the long prayer sessions for our families and for making us able to smile when we want to cry. Now, God I am yet again claiming victory over women today and I am claiming healing from cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, low iron, heart disease, strokes, fibroids, tumors, ovarian cancer, migraines, sinus pressure and any other sickness or disease that tries to claim our lives. God, cover and protect all the women who are pregnant; allow the blessing that is growing inside of them to be healthy and allow them to be able to provide their every need. God, touch the woman who is reading this so that everything she touch, that is in your name, is bountifully blessed and enlarge her territory and allow her to see that her gift will make room for her. Continue to bless us God and continue to make us stronger on our Christian walk. These blessings I ask and this prayer I submit in your name. Amen