All are invited to participate in this interactive devotional throughout the month of May. Please read through this introduction to Praise, which includes our intent and instructions on how to participate.
Pray for our nations, who are all God's inheritors, that we may choose blessing instead of war, that we proclaim God as our Lord, that He may fully bestow upon us His support.
Jeremiah 29:7 A Call to Pray for our Global Political Climate And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Being still does two great things: it creates a check-point to make sure we are acting out of God's Will and not our own; it is a time of refreshing, renewing ourselves in God's presence - receiving completed nourishment from his bosom...
We may practice these commandments from the Lord in our personal lives, but can you imagine what would happen in the world if God's people were to do them as a collective!?
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
The body of Christ has many parts. Particularly, the parts of the body that the Gospel of Matthew seems to be highlighting through Jesus - with Peter - are the Ears that Hear and the Eyes that See.
Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not get tired; they will walk and not become weary.
