Good Morning Peace-Bringing Hands and Feet of God! Do you know peace and bring it into all the situations and relationships you experience. Are others thankful for your peaceful presence or glad when all that grumbling and complaining and bad news leaves them with your exit? Jesus said that he gives us peace and leads us to it. As such, peace lives in us and should come alive through us. Help me Lord! Forgive all the grumbling and negativity. Help me to speak life and bring Your peace alive always. Thanks! Amen! Check out The Word for You below about creating a peaceful atmosphere. There is so much chaos, strife and noise all around us. people need some peace and calm and we have the tools and ability to bring it, of we choose. Are you a peace bringer or chaos/strife stirrer? Talk to God about that and ask for help as you receive His peace to share it . Are you still working on Sarah's challenge about no grumbling and complaining? (I am) Help us be peace bringers like You our God of peace. Amen! Shalom shalom means perfect peace...may we know it and bring it . be still and know that he is the God who leaves us with peace. may we leave a peaceful atmosphere wherever we go . Amen
The Connection Blog and Upper Room both speak of ways to be peace bringers and Jesus' hands and feet that help, show love and compassion and fill others with His peace. Check them out and pray into them and process with some friends. What's God saying to you? What will you do about it? Be the Good News and peace bringer! Shalom shalom! (Dwell in and share perfect peace )
TWFYT
UR: Rescuing Hands
A Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. - Luke 10:33-34 (NIV)
One evening while checking on our cattle, my dad and I found an orphaned newborn calf with one of her hooves stuck in barbed wire. She was exhausted and unable to stand. We carried her through the pasture to our car, then drove her home, worried she wouldn’t survive the night.
Our family bottle-fed the calf for over a month until she could eat grain. She grew quickly and regained the ability to walk. Now she has raised calves of her own. She still remembers my father and walks up to him to lick his shoes.
Often when all hope seems lost, God reaches out to us through others to offer a rescuing hand. Recall how the good Samaritan assisted the man who was beaten half to death: first bandaging the man’s wounds, then placing him on his donkey and taking him to an inn to receive care.
Opportunities to spread the love of God to others abound. God may direct us to help others when they are struggling with illness, addiction, grief, financial hardships, or other difficult situations. Opportunities to receive help are also all around us. We never know how a life may be uplifted when we offer loving assistance.
's Prayer
Merciful God, help us to reach out to others when we witness their struggling. And may we not hesitate to reach out when we need a helping hand. Amen.
Connection:
- Being the Answer to the Prayers You Pray
It happens to all of us! We see a homeless person, come upon the scene of an accident…or hear of a family in financial need. Immediately, we may think to pray in each of these situations, "Lord, please help that person. Send someone to meet that need!" What if God wants to use you and your family to be the answer to your prayer? Are you prepared to back up your prayers with action if the Lord directs? I believe that our Father wants us to learn how to be the hands and feet of His Son to hurting or lost people.
Since Jesus lives in us we should consider as we pray what He would do to meet this need or help this person if He were physically present – because He is! He is physically present in the midst of every situation because He is incarnate – in us! Could this thought and realization change the way you respond to the prayers that you pray? Instead of thinking that you have done the right thing by praying and then moving along to the next activity of your day…do you need to take your prayer to the next level by listening to what the voice of the Spirit speaks to your heart? How many opportunities have we missed because we have not acted in response to the impulse of the Spirit urging us to make Jesus known in the midst of lives or situations?
I believe that many prayers we pray can be answered quickly and with amazing results if we become better listeners to the voice of the Holy Spirit. If we could learn to change our mindset as we pray, I believe we would be used of God in mighty ways to be His agents of transformation. Can you imagine how fulfilling and exciting your lives would be if your family would continually wait upon the Lord to see how He may want to use you to be the answer to prayers that you pray?
Gracious Lord, so often I feel like I’ve done my part if I pray for someone in need, or pray for someone who has requested it. Sometimes I’m not very good at listening to Your voice speaking into and through my prayer so that I am aware of the ways You intend to use me to be the answer. Please give me a compassionate heart to respond to the voice of Your Spirit on behalf of those for whom I am interceding. Tenderize my heart when I want my own way, or feel like I am too busy to meet the needs of others. Help me to fully grasp Your kingdom work in ways that will bring honor and glory to Your Name. I want to be Your hands and feet, Father. Here I am! Send me!
