Month: March 2021

Stre✞ch in FORBEARANCE

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Meditation for PATIENCE

Be completely humble and gentle, be patient, bearing with one another in love

EPHESIANS 4:2 (NIV)

Good News

By choosing to be patient with others, we are choosing to allow God to work it out in His ultimate plan. When we choose to give grace and see that the other person is growing; God is giving us an opportunity to grow as we allow Him to work on them as He also works on us. By choosing to be forbearing in anger, bitterness and our sense of justice in situations; we are choosing to wait on others in the same way the Lord patiently waits on us.  Worship Him in the waiting and praise Him for gifting us His love and mercy. This is how we stretch our spiritual muscle; FORBEARANCE.

A Prayer for FORBEARANCE

Heavenly Father, I am asking in Your grace, that You would help me to overcome my impatience and sense of justice with others and help me instead to humbly dress myself in the same long suffering that You have so graciously given to me. I am choosing forbearance in love as You work all things out in Your ultimate plan. Father, I pray that you continue to work on me and enable me to grow in grace and to develop a patient spirit and humility of heart. I pray this in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit, Amen

Breath Prayers for PATIENCE

repeat these with even breath throughout your practice

Inhale: I am slow to speak

Exhale: slow to anger

Inhale: I am gentle and patient

Exhale: bearing with others in love

Inhale: in God’s will

Exhale: I am strong

Stre✞ch in FAITHFULNESS

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Meditation for TRUST

“You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

JOHN 13:17 (NIV)

Good News 

In our seasons of waiting on the Lord, He is waiting on us. He uses our time of waiting to mature our faith by anchoring our trust in Him again and again. We must stay focused on Him during this time because our faith will be tested. During our trials we can ask God for patience and to help trust that He knows what is best for us, He has a plan, He does everything for a purpose, and He will see it through.

As our faith grows, we no longer need to ask God why something is happening to us. We can allow Him to work through us during the wait and instead ask, “What is it you want me to learn, Lord?” This is how we stretch our spiritual muscle,; FAITHFULNESS..

A Prayer for FAITHFULNESS

Father God, I praise you for teaching me what it means to have faith in silence. As I release these clenched hands, I am reminded to not make idols out of my heart’s desires but to instead cling tightly to Your goodness and faithfulness in complete trust of Your intended plans for me.

Lord, as I face trials that are beyond my understanding, help me to find peace in Your plan as You set things in accordance to Your time. Help me to be more joyful in hope, patient in affliction and faithful in prayer as You strengthen and develop my character through the wait. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

Breath Prayers for Trust

repeat these with even breath throughout your practice

Inhale: I trust in Your will

Exhale: with all my heart

Inhale: I walk by faith

Exhale: when I cannot see

Inhale: the Lord is my refuge

Exhale: and my strength