Happy First Monday in our Advent & Christmas Study, Friends!
I am so excited about beginning Advent early. We will be reading Sarah Young's Jesus Listens for Advent & Christmas beginning this week until the end of December. What I love most about this book is that we will be praying quite a bit. I've already started marking with flags a couple of my favorites that I will probably pray multiple times. In Sarah's letter to us at the beginning of this devotional, she states that she often prays:
Jesus, help me relax in Your peace.p. 5
We all need to pray this daily and often. Our world is spiraling out of control, and our only hope for peace that surpasses all understanding is through staying in close relationship with Jesus.
Also on page 5, Sarah references Proverbs 3:5.
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I'm looking forward on Friday to sharing with you my favorite scripture and thoughts from pp. 1-21. I want you to share with us your favorite takeaways in comments, too.
Prayer Requests
- Please be in prayer for those recovering from the impacts of Hurricane Helene.
- Pray for our military and military families, and the Wisconsin National Guard deployed in Iraq.
- Pray for Kitty's son Mike to get a job. AI has taken away many jobs in his industry. Mike might have the opportunity to redo a game with a friends. Let's pray that this works out for him, and it will lead to more opportunities.
- Rita asks for prayers for her sweet daughters as their graduate school semester is beginning. Pray for them to have a healthy and productive work/school/life balance.
- Pray for Christian leadership in our country. Also pray that God will turn our hearts to him, and he will lavishly bless us with his steadfast love.
- Pray for free and fair elections in the Unites States in every precinct!
- Please pray for a job opportunity for our oldest daughter Shanley (her post doc will be coming to an end). Also, our son-in-law Christopher is applying for a CMO position within the pediatric practice/company he works for. He has an interview this week! Please pray that God's will be done for their job opportunities.
- Please keep Rita's sister and youngest daughter in your prayers: big life changes about to happen.
- Be in prayer for Carla's Florida friends who lost 1/2 of their home. Today they received a forbearance on their mortgage payments until February 1st. PRAISE GOD!
- Pray for the folks in Florida who will be impacted by Hurricane Milton later this week.
- Let's pray that we are blessed by our Advent study.
With all the Halloween surrounding me both at home and in the community, I'm trying to get in the Christmas spirit for our study.
Our local coffee shop is already serving Christmas drinks, and I had an iced pecan latte with cookie dough cold brew. It was delicious!
Until next time...
Blessings!
Ricki Jill
Ricki Jill
I am also very, very excited to have this Advent devotional before us now! I love that your coffee shop is serving liquid Christmas already!
ReplyDeletePrayer warriors, I must let you all know that God showed his hand with a miracle with my youngest daughter this weekend, which greatly helped this mama relax in peace over the life change my daughter is making. The transition has begun. We are blessed by Him. I pray the transition continues peacefully and amicably.
Good Morning RJ and prayer warriors. I am excited you have the Christmas devotional starting. I will be reading along with all of you. I have been in touch with Rita and God is listening and embracing life changes in her family. Prayer works I agree we all have to do it more often and with deep purpose. Glad Carla's friends in Florida are getting a little help too. Now with a new storm heading towards Florida this week I will pray it will not be a destructive as Helene was. Thanks for all the prayer for our move and all the life changes. Prayer has worked and I am so appreciative. God is good. Have a good week. Hugs. Kris
ReplyDeleteThe art work in our Advent reading is something I just love. I share some of the pages with my husband, because it makes me smile so.
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