Happy Prayer Warriors

Monday, April 22, 2024

One Thousand Gifts: Monday, Week Thirty-Seven

Happy Monday, Sweet Friends! What did you do this weekend? Did you get outside and enjoy some beautiful spring weather?

This week's devotion is entitled "one-hundred-times-a-day grace," and I hope it is half as good as last week's, which I loved!

Here is this week's scripture:

Prayer Requests:

Pray for Kitty's son Mike to get a job. AI has taken away many jobs in his industry.
Pray for Kitty's SIL Eric's continued recovery from surgery. Also pray for her daughter as her responsibilities have increased while Eric recovers.
Please continue to pray for our military and military families.
Continue to pray for Carla's son Sam and the 157th!
Pray for leadership in our country, leaders who will care about America and Americans above global interests.
Today is our son-in-law Christopher's birthday. Please pray special birthday blessings for him!

Have a beautiful week!

Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill

One Thousand Gifts: Friday, Week Thirty-Six

Adam and Eve mosaic

St. Vitus Cathedral

Prague Castle Complex

Prague, Czech Republic

Happy Friday, Friends!

Have you had a good week? Mine has been busy with events including a party. I was also able to spend quite a bit of time with Shelley this week, too, so it's been a very good week!

This week's devotion is entitled "love song grace." It is my very favorite of all the lessons so far because of its "rightness" in how to think. My grandmother always taught me that it isn't any of my business what other people think about me. However, this is the only and the very best exception, isn't it!

What are your thoughts?

Here are this week's scriptures:

Prayer Requests

Pray for Kitty's son Mike to get a job. AI has taken away many jobs in his industry.
Continue to pray for Kitty's SIL Eric as he recovers from surgery. Pray that he won't get any infections. Also pray for her daughter as her responsibilities have increased while Eric recovers.
URGENT: Eric's surgery is today where they do an implant in his chest that will coordinate with the brain implant. All this will need programming and may take awhile to tweak everything. Pray for his continued recovery.
Please continue to pray for our military and military families.
Please pray for my friend Charlotte's son Connor. He is struggling with mental illness.
Please pray for my friend Dawn who is fighting leukemia.
Sam has another extended Drill Date this month. He cannot tell us much... just that several teams will be deployed. Pray for the 157th!
Pray that war won't be escalated in the Middle East and elsewhere, and that God's will be done!

Have a lovely weekend, Sweet Prayer Warrior Friends!

Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill

One Thousand Gifts: Monday, Week Thirty-Six

Happy Monday, Friends! How was your weekend? We went to the lake to get our cabin ready for the summer season. We haven't been down there in a long time. Although we mostly worked, it was nice to go!

This week's lesson is entitled "love song grace." I'm intrigued by the title, aren't you?

This week's scripture is one of my very favorite Bible verses:

Prayer Requests

Pray for Kitty's son Mike to get a job. AI has taken away many jobs in his industry.
Continue to pray for Kitty's SIL Eric as he recovers from surgery. Pray that he won't get any infections. Also pray for her daughter as her responsibilities have increased while Eric recovers.
Please continue to pray for our military and military families.
Please pray for my friend Charlotte's son Connor. He is struggling with mental illness.
Please pray for my friend Dawn who is fighting leukemia.
Sam has another extended Drill Date this month. He cannot tell us much... just that several teams will be deployed. Pray for the 157th!
Pray that war won't be escalated in the Middle East and elsewhere, and that God's will be done!

Now go have some coffee, read your Bible, pray, and let your little light shine this week!

I love you all!

Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill

One Thousand Gifts: Friday, Week Thirty-Five

Hand-painted Easter eggs from the Easter Market

Old Town Square, Prague, Czech Republic

Happy Friday, Friends! I hope you've had a wonderful week. The world has completely greened-up here in Central Alabama because we've had a lot of rain. The woods and gardens near our home are stunning!

This week's lesson is entitled "wedded grace." Kitty enjoyed it, and said it was one of her favorite lessons so far. I agree...I found my face hurting from my big grin when I finished reading it! Weddings are indeed a sacrament even though many in today's world do not view it as such. In that context, isn't the wedding metaphor for how Christ and the church are one both exciting and comforting?

Below is this week's featured scripture.

There is also at least four other verses mentioned in this week's lesson. I won't post all of them, but I will leave you with this one:

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband...And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
~Revelation 21:2,4 (KJV)

If these verses don't make us smile until our faces hurt, then I don't think anything can!

Prayer Requests

Pray for Kitty's son Mike to get a job. AI has taken away many jobs in his industry.
Continue to pray for Kitty's SIL Eric as he recovers from surgery. Pray that he won't get any infections. Also pray for her daughter as her responsibilities have increased while Eric recovers.
Please continue to pray for our military and military families.
Rita's daughters have competed their studies for the semester, and both did well. Praise God!
Please pray for my friend Charlotte's son Connor. He is struggling with mental illness.
Please pray for my friend Dawn who is fighting leukemia.
Sam has another extended Drill Date this month. He cannot tell us much... just that several teams will be deployed. Pray for the 157th!