Jesus Listens For Advent & Christmas, Friday: Week Three

 

Happy Friday, Friends!  What a week!!!  First of all, thanks for all your emails and concern for Finlay.  He was finally back to normal yesterday morning when he ate every bite of his breakfast (his normal-sized portion).  I was so thankful because I felt good about going to the last Bible Study class of the season yesterday afternoon.  When I got home, all he did was beg for treats.  He's a piece of work!

Although I read all the lessons this week, I was distracted.  So I spent some time last night going back through all of them, and the one that stuck out for me is the one on page 46.  The quote on page 47 says it all:

Since I have invested My very Life in you, be well assured that I will also take care of you.

Wow.  When you stop to think about it like that.... Jesus gave his very life for us because he loves us so much.  He does have quite a bit (EVERYTHING!) invested in us, and he not only wants to be our God of Eternity, but he also longs to be our constant companion while we're living here on Earth.  

God is so good!

Here are the Bible verses for this prayer/lesson:

Please share what you most enjoyed this week from our prayers and scripture.

Prayer Requests

• 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 that uses his talents.
• Rita asks for prayers for her sweet daughters for their fall graduate school semester.  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 travel mercies for Shanley Belle and Christopher.  They are traveling abroad.
• Please keep Rita's sister and youngest daughter in your prayers:  big life changes about to happen.  PRAISE UPDATE:  God showed his hand with a miracle with Rita's youngest daughter last weekend, which greatly helped her relax in peace over the life change her daughter is making. The transition has begun. They are blessed by Him.  She prays the transition continues peacefully and amicably.
• Pray for Rita's sister as she's moving, and also pray for her sisters helping her to move.
• 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.  UPDATE: from Steve and Jessica...Clean up has begun. Everywhere you look a mess, the streets are lined with everyone's former household possessions stacked everywhere. People are cleaning and working... and look like Zombies. It is emotionally tiring.  The only normalcy to the mix, are the kids. Our little daughter brings us such joy and a reason to keep going.
• Let's pray that we are blessed by our Advent study.
• Kitty asks if you could pray for Cissy’s emotional and mental wellbeing, please.  You may recall that she was in a car accident a couple of weeks ago.  She also requests that we pray for Eric also because he's miserable with his job.   Pray that he can find something suitable for him with insurance.

This weekend, we will be at the lake.

We're hoping to go to the Fall Festival at Russell Crossroads and the Cool Vintage Street Market in Waverly, Alabama on Saturday.  

It will definitely be a Hallmark Fall Weekend!

What are your plans?

Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill