Eliza's Prayer BoxEliza's Prayer BoxA blog dedicated to prayer and to all those who believe in the power of prayer Articles
Buying a Wooden Prayer Box
2007-12-27 16:00:00 For those who are interested in buying a wooden prayer box for themselves or as a gift, here is a website I came across, where you can order them online and pay via Paypal. The boxes are usually delivered within one week.My Prayer Box by Heavenly Wood Works Inc. More About: Buying , Wooden
The Orphans of This World
2007-12-27 15:34:00 In God's eyes we are all the same,He knows each one of us by name.He calls the orphans of this worldUnder His wings, far from the cold.When you feel lonely in the night,He'll come to you and hold you tight.When tears burn like acid rain,He'll come to you and soothe your pain.You are so precious in God's eyes,He paid for you such a high price.He send His son into the worldTo face the darkness and the cold.To share the mortals' destiny,To give you hope, to set you free.The little babe Jesus was born,For you, the orphans of this world. More About: World , Orphans
LET'S WELCOME JESUS
2007-12-24 06:13:00 And the light came into the darkness... and the Word came into the world to break the silence of death...He came and lived among us, full of grace and truth. His words healed hearts and minds, his call arose people from the death, his touch brought light to the blind.His message was simple and full of power. His words strong and compassionate. His presence life-changing. His love for us had no limits.He didn't come to judge or to punish, but to save and to heal. To help us find a meaning in a meaningless world. To comfort us and give us a hope in a hopeless world. He came to the orphans of this world, to make them sons and daughters of God and heirs of eternity.He came as a humble baby, sharing all our pain and suffering in a body like ours, bearing all the burdens of our frail human frame. When the whole earth and sky was his, he chose to live and die for us out of a love that defies our understanding.Let's welcome the baby born in Bethlehem. Let's welcome Jesus , Son of God and ...
Don't save it all for Christmas Day
2007-12-15 20:47:00 www.christianphotos.net There isn't enough love in the world. As Victor Hugo said, we never pray and never love too much. One single smile could make miracles and yet sometimes we grudge even that. Let the lights and the magic of Christmas change your heart this year. Smile more, even to the people you don't know. Bring a smile on sad faces by a kind word. Touch the hand of a lonely man. Pray for those who have no hope. Visit someone who's dying. Give a piece of bread to a hungry person. Make a surprise to a sick child. Give a present to someone who's forgotten. Make a woman feel loved. Make a man feel special. If you do any one of these things, you make the world a better place and you honour Jesus, who's coming into the world once again as a little baby, to live and die for us, to comfort and counsel us, to give us a creed and a meaning, to be our our Lord, our friend and our brother. YouTube - Celine Dion - Don't save it all for christmas Day More About: Save , Christmas Day
Improving Your Prayer Life
2007-12-15 17:16:00 Here you can find a few ideas on improving your prayer life. If you feel that something is not w orking as it should, don't get discouraged and don't give up. God can see your struggles and his heart is always with you. Wherever you go, whatever you do, keep that in mind and turn to him like you would turn to a friend.Prayer Central More About: Life
At the Approaching of Christmas
2007-12-15 17:04:00 My Lord, I can remember Christmas as it used to be in my early years, with all its lights and all its magic. Things have changed in time and I'll never regain that magic again. The years of my childhood are gone forever and with them so many sensations and feelings that can be neither recovered nor put into words. Please, Lord, let me feel your love this Christmas once more, let me feel how lucky I am to be your child. Remind me of the way you changed my heart and of all the miracles you've made in my life. Teach me not to take anything for granted, but to give you thanks for everything. Let me escape the daily routine and see the hidden beauty of each day. Let the child in me take over once again, let me see the world through the innocent eyes of a child. Open my eyes to the wonders around me. There are so many miracles we pass by every day and don't even notice. Help me rediscover the world this Christmas, with all the amazing things you put in it for us to rejoice. AMEN More About: Prayers
Pray As You Go
2007-12-15 16:42:00 This is a link that will take you to a site where you can download and listen to prayers in mp3 format. Whether you're at home or on the road, driving the car or travelling by train or by bus, you can feel closer to God by listening to these prayers. Pray -as-you-go . . . daily prayer for your MP3 player
Longing for Intimacy
2007-12-09 09:16:00 www.christianphotos.netRight now when I?m writing this, the wind is roaring like a wild animal and the rain is tapping on my window, but neither of them can hurt me. It feels like it?s part of our genetic heritage to long for warmth and cosiness, for the sweet touch of intimacy. As I look back at my life, I can see this longing in everything I?ve done, in every step I?ve taken. The Webster dictionary defines ?intimacy? as ?a state of close relationship, familiarity?. Intimacy is usually between two persons, but it can go much further and deeper than that. Intimacy with yourself, with the world around you, with God. Feeling close to things and to beings. However, in order to feel close to something or someone, you need to feel that you are safe, that there is no threatening. Since we are so fragile and vulnerable, feeling safe is very important to us.There are three images that come to mind when I think of intimacy. An evening by the fire with someone you love. Lord Jesus sharing bre... More About: Longing
The Job God Gave Me
2007-12-08 07:10:00 One night I woke up and cried. Tears came uninvited and they wouldn?t stop. Ever since, I have been crying inside. For all the combinations of words no one has ever written. For all the books no one has ever read. For all the people no one has ever loved. There are so many things to cry for in a lifetime. For every little part of me that has been wasted along the years. For every lost soul. For every shattered dream. For every little thing that has been left outside in the cold. For every car that has passed by my window without stopping for me. For every night that has gone by without revealing its mystery. For all the secrets unknown and unshared.I could cry for almost anything. Both sadness and joy can bring tears into my eyes. Hatred and love. The beginning and the end of life. Alpha and Omega. And all that?s in between. The easiest thing in the world is to find something to cry for. Once you have come to a certain stage, it?s all a matter of looking around ? or looking inside....
Two prayers
2007-12-04 16:31:00 http://www.christianphotos.net/When I was a kid, my greatest wish was to have a little brother or sister. So I wrote a long and touching letter to the stork, the bird that is supposed to bring babies in a basket. I left the letter on a field where one could see storks occasionally and I waited for the result. Of course, nothing happened. I wrote another letter to Father Christmas, or Santa Claus or whatever you like to call him. Christmas came and I got a lot of presents, but no trace of the one I?d been asking for. People say that in order to have your wish granted, you have to think of it when you see a shooting star. So I used to come out in the evenings and stare at the sky, hoping to find a shooting star. When I finally discovered one, I felt like I had finally touched the shores of heaven. Still nothing happened.Not long after Christmas, my friend next door got a little sister. I was convinced that the stork, or Father Christmas or whoever was in charge with the delivery had s... More About: Prayers , Thoughts
For Those Who Have Prayed for Me
2007-11-30 12:21:00 http://www.christianphotos.netDear Lord, holy spring of life and light of divine love, thank you for all the people who have prayed for me along the years and for those who are still praying, for those who are close and for those who are far away, for those whom I?ve met and for those whom I haven?t met, for those without whom my path would have sunken into darkness so many times. Thank you for in the moments of spiritual crisis, they lifted me up and gave me strength to go on. Don?t leave any of their prayers unrewarded, nor any of their kind acts unpaid. Touch them with your rich mercy and fill their life with blessings. Surround them with love and people who are willing to pray for them with an honest heart, just like they prayed for me. Never leave them alone in times of trial, nor without help in danger. Never leave them without comfort in times of suffering. Give them a healthy body and a peaceful mind. Guide them with your right hand and when the way seems too long and too ha... More About: Prayers
A fresh start...
2007-11-28 15:12:00 Dear Lord,This day is a new page in the book of our lives. We thank you for giving us the chance to write yet another page in it; a page of joy, gratitude, compassion and love for all those who desire to read it. Give us the fortitude and wisdom that we need to live this day according to your perfect teachings; purify our spirits and fill our hearts with your presence, so that we can be light among the darkness. Once again, Lord, we thank you. Amen. More About: Start , Fresh
An Exercise for the Imagination
2007-11-27 16:03:00 www.christianphotos.netThe clock on the wall indicated a few minutes to eight PM. In a second floor apartment of a block, in a provincial town, a 16 year old girl was writing in her diary:?I am the last creature on Earth. A pathetic animal who can?t find its place in this world. I?m fed up with living in fear. Fear. Always fear. With every step I take. With every breath of air I take. A life based on fear, from A to Z. I?m scared that my mother will die and I?ll be left alone in this world. I?m scared that men will break my heart. I?m scared that no one will love me for what I am. I?m scared that I?ll grow old and sere like a flower without water. I?m scared of the monotony of life. Of the agony of death. Of the life after death. And so on and so forth. I?ve got to stop this. And the only way I can stop the fear of death is by facing it.?At the same time, at the other side of the world, in the corner of an old country side a spider was weaving his web. The light filtered through the... More About: Exercise , Imagination
Make Us Worthy to Serve
2007-11-22 09:42:00 "Make us worthy, Lord,To serve our fellow-menThroughout the worldWho live and die in poverty and hunger.Give them, through our hands,This day their daily bread;And by our understanding love,Give peace and joy."Mother Teresa More About: Worthy , Wort , Serve
Show Me the Meaning of Suffering
2007-11-22 09:34:00 My Lord, my Redeemer, help me find a meaning in my suffering, in the hardships and the humiliations I?m facing. Make my life and my being part of your divine plan. Give me the strength to see beyond this ?here? and ?now?. Show me a glimpse of what we cannot know, let me find the answers I?m looking for. Speak to me like you spoke to Job at the end of his suffering. Reach out to me and scatter the darkness that surrounds me. Open my eyes, so that I can see your love in everything. Open my ears, so that I can hear your voice in everything. Teach me to be strong in times of weakness. To carry forward the message of faith, hope and love. When my heart is breaking, touch it with your healing touch and make it whole again. Your mercy is endless. Your greatness is beyond compare. You can turn wrong into right and darkness into light. You can make me strong by the very things that make me weak. Change my heart. Let me be a messenger of your love here on Earth. Where there is bitterness, pou... More About: Prayers , Meaning , Suffering , Erin
The Poem of the Orphan Child
2007-11-20 20:47:00 "My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child. Why did they send me so far and so lonely, Up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled? Men are hard-hearted, and kind angels only Watch o'er the steps of a poor orphan child. Yet distant and soft the night breeze is blowing, Clouds there are none, and clear stars beam mild, God, in His mercy, protection is showing, Comfort and hope to the poor orphan child. Ev'n should I fall o'er the broken bridge passing, Or stray in the marshes, by false lights beguiled, Still will my Father, with promise and blessing, Take to His bosom the poor orphan child. There is a thought that for strength should avail me, Though both of shelter and kindred despoiled; Heaven is a home, and a rest will not fail me; God is a friend to the poor orphan child."From Jane Eyre, by Charlotte... More About: Poem , Child , Orphan , The Orphan
Words About Prayer
2007-11-20 20:40:00 "Prayer does not and cannot change the purpose of ... God. For every right and good thing we might ask for He has already planned to give us. But prayer does change the action of God. Because He cannot give against our wills, and our willingness as expressed by our asking gives Him the opportunity to do as He has already planned."S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon More About: Words
Let me be a prayer
2007-11-18 20:16:00 Lord God,Let my every word be a prayer.Let my every thought be a prayer.Let my every action be a prayer.Let all I?ve gotand all I am be a prayerForever and ever.AMEN More About: Poems , Prayers , Prayer
The Two Parts of Prayer
2007-11-18 20:01:00 "In its simplest analysis prayer--all prayer--has, must have, two parts. First, a God to give. "Yes," you say, "certainly, a God wealthy, willing, all of that." And, just as certainly, there must be a second factor, a man to receive. Man's willingness is God's channel to the earth. God never crowds nor coerces. Everything God does for man and through man He does with man's consent, always. With due reverence, but very plainly, let it be said that God can do nothing for the man with shut hand and shut life. There must be an open hand and heart and life through which God can give what He longs to. An open life, an open hand, open upward, is the pipe line of communication between the heart of God and this poor befooled old world. Our prayer is God's opportunity to get into the world that would shut Him out."S. D. Gordon More About: Prayer , Thoughts , Parts
Words about prayer
2007-11-18 19:47:00 Prayer is one of the ways of communicating with God, perhaps the most important one. That?s why it is essential that we pray regularly. There were periods in my life when I neglected prayer. Sometimes out of laziness or because I was caught up with other things. Other times because words seemed dry and my heart had nothing to say. It always felt like breaking a relationship, like turning my back on God. Then a time came when I felt like starting over. Let me tell you this, it wasn?t easy. I could feel the gap I?d created, it was as real as you and me. The words wouldn?t come without a struggle. It would take a while to reach the spiritual level I had reached before. Lack of exercise or practice in any area leads to lack of performance. So a good relationship with God requires a lot of prayer exercise. It?s so easy to say: ?I?ll take a break today.? But then tomorrow it gets worse, and the day after tomorrow worse, and so on and so forth. By the time you want to pray again you might ... More About: Prayer , Words
A Prayer for Purity
2007-11-16 21:28:00 A Prayer for Purity By Trudy (a daughter of Christ)Lord God Father, Son and Holy Spirit please give me a grace of purity in all manner.Purity of heartPurity of soulPurity of mindPurity of bodyPurity of spiritPurity in my sensesPurity in my speechPurity in my thoughtsPurity in my wordsPurity in my deedsPurity in my dressPurity in my actionsPurity in my conductPurity in my attitudePurity in loveHelp me each morning to ariseand be conscious that I amYour daughter/sonTherefore I can no longer bea child of the world,I must be differentHelp me to havea conduct of deep desireto be pleasing to YouPour Your Holy Spirit ontoand within me,in a new way todayI want to be set apartfrom this worldand belong to You entirelyPlease Lord God,give me the gift of purityin all manner of self and livingPlace Your garment of holinesson me and make me ChristlikeThank You amenwww.allforyourglorylord.comTrudy (a daughter of Christ) is a transformed woman by the Word of God made flesh Lord Jesus Christ. Her des... More About: Poems , Prayers
Save me from myself
2007-11-16 21:22:00 So many times I was on the point of falling. So many times I stood on the edge of the abyss, ready to take the next step. You saved me every time. I am nothing but dust. The most insignificant creature who has ever lived. And yet you saved me. You restored me. Now I?m scared of all the times that will come when I get there again. Are you going to save me every time? I?m so out of control sometimes. So helpless. I can?t pray. I can?t love. I can?t see the light ahead. Everything around seems to sink into darkness. An ocean of blackness. Will you rescue me from that pit over and over again? Will you rescue me from the darkness inside? My life is in your hands. Don?t let go of it. Not even for a second. Cause sometimes a second is all it takes for the bridge to be crossed. More About: Prayers , Save , Save Me
To Our Heavenly Father
2007-11-14 09:45:00 Lord God of love, our comforter and our friend, our light in the dark, let our hearts find a refuge in you from all the worries and the troubles of the day. Let us bring our burdens to the feet of the cross and renew us over and over again with the living water of your presence in our lives. Make us strong in our everyday struggles. Help us distinguish between right and wrong and choose the things that can make us grow. Help us make a difference in the lives of the people around us and in our own lives. Rather than ask for miracles all the time, let us be a miracle. You created us according to your own image, help us live that way. Let us prove ourselves worthy of the gift of life you gave to us and of all the love you invested in us. Let us feel the magic of every moment and give thanks for all the things in our life. Let us see the rainbow glistening behind every tear. Teach us that the great crisis can be overcome. That there are answers to the big questions of humanity. That we ... More About: Father , Fath
Motto
2007-11-13 21:13:00 Our purpose in life is to make sure that light is always one step ahead of darkness. More About: Motto
My psalm, my prayer
2007-11-12 12:47:00 Lord God,You are the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. It is safe to place my heart in your hands. In a restless and troubled world, you are a realm of peace and comfort. In a sea of doubts, you are the certainty. In an ocean of darkness, you are the light. Guide us through the night. Your mercy is endless. Your grace is eternal. Your love has no boundaries. Without you, we would be lost and alone. With you, we are saved and loved, we have a purpose and a meaning. Teach us to love and to forgive, the way you love and forgive us. Teach us to find our joy in you. Teach us to find our strength in your name. Make us a candle for others' steps, so that they can see where they are going and do not stumble on the way.Make us a light for the blind, a song for the deaf, a hope for the lost and the lonely. Give us the passion and the courage of the first Christians. Give us the power you gave to your apostles. Teach us to say the right word at the right time, to choose the righ... More About: Prayers , Prayer , Psalm
Prayer Resembles a Flower
2007-11-11 21:12:00 Prayer Resembles a Flower By Vanessa FerrisFirst one plants the seed, inquiring God's very existence. One must believe, even slightly, or he would not have questioned the fact by any means.Once questions multiply, they gradually become words converting into a prayer. The more one prays, the more water will develop his flower.One's maturity through spiritual walk will elevate the flower connecting him with Christ.Once the flower flourishes, one may dwell in God's mercy and peace as they too embark on their journey in ministry assisting others to create a flower of their own.I am Vanessa Ferris an eighteen year old from Toledo, Ohio. I have been writing poetry and short stories since I was in 7th grade. My words is basically my soul on paper. I write about how I feel at the time. I am not afraid to write what I think. I believe in God as my Savior; I am not ashamedArticle Source: http://www.faithwriters.com More About: Prayer
What they have said...
2007-11-11 19:30:00 Emily Dickinson:"If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain." More About: Poems
How to pray
2007-11-11 09:36:00 Approach God with confidence.If you think you don't have enough, don't worry. Ask for it.Approach God with faith.If you think you don't have enough, don't worry. Faith is the only thing you can ask for without having faith.Approach God with tears.If your eyes are dry, don't worry. Keep on praying. The tears will come as God melts the ice around your heart.Approach God with thanks.If you think you have nothing to thank for, don't worry. At the end of your prayer you'll realize you have more than you think.Approach God with an honest heart.If you think your heart is not honest, don't worry. The very fact that you thought about it proves the contrary.Approach God with all you've got.If you think you've got nothing, don't worry. Take your nothing in front of God. After all, he created the world out of nothing.Approach God full stop. More About: Pray
What they have said...
2007-11-11 09:09:00 Charlotte Bronte:"Biblical promises, heard first in health, but then unheeded, come whispering to the couch of sickness: it is felt that a pitying God watches what all mankind have forsaken; the tender compassion of Jesus is recalled and relied on: the faded eye, gazing beyond Time, sees a Home, a Friend, a Refuge in Eternity."
What they have said
More articles from this author:2007-11-10 10:12:00 Victor Hugo:"To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying.""With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are sincere.""Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.""To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.""We never love or pray too much." More About: Prayers 1, 2, 3 |
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