25 Ways To Help You Pray

1. Pray the name of God.
2. Pray a Psalm a day.
3. Pray the Lord’s Prayer.
4. Pray From The Book of Common Prayer.
5. Pray a chapter a day in the Gospels.
6. Write, memorize, and pray individual verses.
7. Pray a verse of the week.
8. Pray a devotional book.
9. Pray a Proverb a day.
10. Pray your Bible reading schedule.
11. Pray and repray favorite Scriptures.
12. Pray in the Spirit.
13. Pray the Jesus Prayer. -Lord Jesus Christ, Son Of God, have mercy on me sinner.
14. Pray your prayer list.
15. Singing is a form of prayer.
16. Walk and pray.
17. Pray for the lost.
18. Pray for God to fill you with His Holy Spirit. Luke 11:13
19. Pray for God to send workers to do his work. Matt 9:37-38
20. Look up to pray. John 17:1
21. Look down when you pray. Luke 18:13
22. Join a prayer group.
23. Join in public prayer.
24. Journal your prayers.
25. Silence is prayer. Ps 46:10

Living Hope's Prayer of the Week

O God, who declares your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Mercifully grant us such a measure of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may be made partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Virgin of The Rocks

-Leonardo da Vinci.
-The Angel in his painting "Virgin of The Rocks"
-I thought it was nice.

Living Hope's Prayer of The Week-Anxious

Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

-I am no good a predictions, especially about the future.

-Bad things will happen but most likely it will not be what I am worried about.

-I am no good at predicting the future.

-I got a feeling everything is gonna be alright.

-Future is so bright I got to wear shades.

Living Hope's Verse Of The Week- Matthew 6:3-4

Matthew 6:3-4 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

-Challenge of the week:  Pick a person this week and give them something secretly.  Or at least as secret as you can.

Delight In The Lord Song Of The Week- We Fall Down

Living Hope's Prayer of The Week

O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Marked By Heaven

Living Hope's Verse Of The Week- Matthew 6:2

Matthew 6:2 So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

-When you help someone out, don’t think about how it looks.

-Just do it—quietly and without drawing attention to yourself.

-That is the way your God, working behind the scenes, helps you out.

7 Deadly Sins Prayer

Let me use all things for one sole reason: to find my joy in giving You glory.

Therefore, keep me, above all things, from sin. Keep me from the death of deadly sin which puts hell in my soul. Keep me from the murder of lust that blinds and poisons my heart. Keep me from the sins that eat a man's flesh with irresistible fire until he is devoured. Keep me from loving money in which is hatred, from avarice [greed] and ambition that suffocate my life. Keep me from the dead works of vanity and the thankless labor in which artists destroy themselves for pride and money and reputation, and saints are smothered under the avalanche of their own importunate zeal. Staunch in me the rank wound of covetousness and the hungers that exhaust my nature with their bleeding. Stamp out the serpent envy that stings love with poison and kills all joy.

Untie my hands and deliver my heart from sloth. Set me free from the laziness that goes about disguised as activity when activity is not required of me, and from the cowardice that does what is not demanded, in order to escape sacrifice.

But give me the strength that waits upon You in silence and peace. Give me humility in which alone is rest, and deliver me from pride which is the heaviest of burdens. And possess my whole heart and soul with the simplicity of love. Occupy my whole life with the one thought and the one desire of love, that I may love not for the sake of merit, not for the sake of perfection, not for the sake of virtue, not for the sake of sanctity, but for You alone. Thomas Merton

1. Sin puts hell in our souls. Unrepentant sinners not only will perish but are perishing.

2. Merton prays against the 7 deadly sins. Lust and greed seem to be twins. Their focus is different but their appetites the same.

3. Waiting, waiting, waiting, silently, peacefully. That's what gets the sin out of my soul.

Living Hope's Prayer Of The Week

Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as
you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength,
so you never forsake those who make their boast of your
mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

-What if we bragged about God's mercy?  What would the world say about that?  What would many in the church say about that?  But more importantly what would God say about that?