Let’s Pray against Fear

My Sweet Lord,

Father, I knew fear was bound to slip into my thought life as I prepare to teach on fear versus Your Love later this week. And it did. My dreams last night shook me to waking tears. My thoughts naturally settle in an old, familiar place as the nausea of things past sit with me in the present.

Father, I do not miss this old, familiar place.

In my fight, my head hurts.

In my fight, Scripture rages.

In my fight, I equally crave sleep all the while I disdain the thought of returning to ill dreams.

Lord, may I just sit here with you? Selah

Father, I knew fear would slip into my thought life. Yet, Lord God, I knew you would too! How faithful you are to restore your Words hidden on my heart. How true you are to capture my thoughts and sing songs of victory over it. How beautiful you are to gift girlfriends who rise up in prayer and understanding.

Father, I do love this new, familiar place.

In your presence, I rest.

In your presence, I find strength and resolve.

In you presence, I joy once again.

Lord, in you I am free.

Father, I pray for those who are battling fear right now. Lord, fear is born in many situations. Yet, it haunts us all the same. Will you, I pray, rehearse truth and purity, goodness and gentleness, Scripture and songs of victory, laughter and love upon her heart and in her thoughts this very moment.

Father, teach her a new cycle from old patterns to newness in You.

In you, may she remember who she is. (1 Cor. 3)

In you, help her fight to win. (Rom. 4)

In you, teach her to stand beside her friends, Sword in hand, claiming victory. (Eph.6)

Lord, shine your face upon her today. (Psalm 31)

Fear. Cast it out, we unite in prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ! Fear. You have no place. No right. No reign.


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Top Ten of 2020

As a thank you for walking with me in prayer and truth, I have linked my Top Ten posts of 2020. Interesting to see that most are from my Prayer Journal. Is there not much power in prayer?!

Also, scroll down to receive a Free compilation of 30 Prayers of 2020.

 

1. Prayer for Police Officers

I pray that you will cause a light to shine upon these men and women who dutifully stand for our constitution and for our laws and for our rights and for our safety and freedom and protection and our nation’s purity. Father, our Officers need our prayers and need Your defense.

2. Prayer for America

America is at a crossroads. This is not the first time our nation has seen a divide, nor is it the first time it has seen extreme hardship. Such is life as a nation. History tells us this. But God, history also tells us that prayer can heal a nation. That prayer can rescue a people. And that prayer can cause the enemy to fall at the sound of a trumpet. This is what a nation can see if a nation prays.

3. Prayer for China

Father, we pray salvation in China will become an epidemic as it is in other nations today. Call your creation to you, send your Spirit to turn their eyes to Righteousness, and lead your children to the souls seeking an Answer. Lord, we know You are the answer, for You were and are the Answer for each of us.

4. Prayer for Lives

Lord, may I pray for the foundation of a movement that is steering the heart of a united people down the path of division and frustration and pain? I pray, Lord, for Alicia Garza, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Opal Tometi. I pray for their hearts to be changed to the goodness of The God Almighty. Open their eyes to the evidence of Your Control. God, I pray these three women will acknowledge that Jesus is Lord of all.

5. Prayer for Pastors

The realities of 2020 are hard on all of us. But they are weighing heavily on our pastors and their wives. God, in our heaviness, we rely on these leaders to fill us with truth and promise from the Word. We trust them with our prayer requests. We lean on them as our Pastor. As we should, for you called them to do just that.

6. Prayer for School

Be with schools this fall. Protect hearts, give attention to ears, guard minds, and fill our children with wisdom, your wisdom. That promised wisdom from above given to all who ask as stated in James. Lord, I pray not these words for my son alone, but for the children in his school, for the children of my friends, and for the children who desire to learn and attain true academic knowledge.

7. Today’s Prayer List

Good morning Father, You are good. What more can I say? To sit in Your presence, to breathe in Your peace, to breathe out Your sustenance, to walk by Your side, to hold Your hand… oh, Father, you are good. Lord, there are prayer requests falling at your feet from all around this world. I pray You will hear our prayers today.

*Sister, pray with me…

8. Green Pen and a Credit Card

My grandma read her Bible. She Read her Bible. Cover to cover every year of my life. It lay open on her glass coffee table. A green pen and a credit card lay beside it. Yes, a credit card. Every morning she brewed her pot of deep, black coffee and sat on her floral couch in a beautiful polyester summer dress that tied perfectly below her bosom. 

9. When You Don’t Know What to Pray

May I pray your daughter will give herself grace to sit in this moment of sorrow. Allow her the time and freedom to cry in your arms. Lord Jesus, I pray you will hold her hand, help her stand when her strength returns within her soul and step ever so sweetly beside her as the days begin to brighten.

10. Prayer for Our Thoughts

Oh, Lord God, Where does one go with one’s thoughts. This is my question. Why are we prone to assume that our thoughts are evil and sin-filled and self-condemning? This also is my question. Personally these two questions scream within me. Daily I ponder my thoughts. Daily I sit on guard of myself, working diligently in controlling my thoughts. Fighting, as with a Sword, the cruelty that resides within my inner self-condemnation, within my thoughts.


Enjoy a compilation of 30 prayers that were posted throughout 2020. Let’s continue to pray together as we enter a New Year. Much love, Jaclyn

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Freedom From Your Weight

Freedom From Your Weight ~ Week Four

Simple Truth

~ Weight pulls us down in the most unexpected ways. Have you ever noticed that? The timing in which our weight bothers us appears to be nonsensical. But is the timing of our struggle nonsensical? Or is it comfortable, assuming, programmed, expected, protective, _____________?

For some of us, our struggle with weight is deeply connected with sin. Sin thrown at us by another person. This sin, sweet friend, is not your weight to carry any longer. This sin is not your sin. It is not your identity. It is not you. There is freedom to be found in Christ from this weight of another person’s sin.

For some of us, our struggle with weight is rooted in the soil of this broken world in which we live. Expectations and “requirements” are handed to us by the ugliness of this world proclaiming that its answer is the identity of beauty. My friend, beauty is much brighter than the fruit grown from this earth’s soil.

May we unite together on this hillside. May we walk together in the desire to receive this gift of freedom already given us from our Lord Jesus Christ.

Consider: Our weight journey is a very personal journey for each of us, but we need a person to walk this journey with us. Sometimes we need more than a person to walk by our side. At times we need a team.

What is the first/next step you need to set your eyes on in order to press forward in what lies ahead? This is your life. This is your future. Live for you.

Challenge: Give your weight “issue” to Jesus by trusting a friend with your story. Allow her to speak life into the future of your story. Trust yourself to live for your future instead of looking toward the past.


Video Lesson

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Scripture

~ Hebrews 12:1-2

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.


Have you ever wanted freedom from the cyclical pull that comes with weight? Are you sighing, gritting your teeth, rolling your eyes, and eating a brownie as your response? Or is that just my response?! Weight is a topic, for sure. I think this is one topic we would rather keep under the table. Isn’t it?

For many women, to discuss the matter of attaining freedom from our weight, we have to talk about much more than digits. And when we talk deeper than digits, things tend to get real. My prayer is that we will refrain from caloric or scaled numbers, but will touch the root of our battles.

Jaclyn