Breathe and pray extra today.

 Some days we need a few extra prayers. Many people in our families are hurting, emotionally, physically and financially. Lord, we ask that You be over all that concerns us and our loved ones. We ask for special favor, blessing, a touch from You, to be held in Your great Father arms when we weep.

I thank You, Father, that a day of great favor is coming for those who are clinging to You, watching for You and Your answers to our prayers. We ask that You search the hearts for the unspoken or secret petitions and that You help us to pray in line with Your will for us.

We sometimes can only breathe the name of Jesus as our prayer when things seem hard. Breathe and pray, breathe and pray and may your day be blessed. Thanking the Lord for each tender mercy that He sends us.

Today, we pray for the one who is already dreading Christmas because of their grief. Their feeling of loss because there is going to be someone missing from their table, life, their family this year. We pray that You, Lord, send great Father arms of comfort to them. Give them the gift of peace that can only come from You in Jesus’ name. Help them to get their eyes off their own situation and be a source of love and comfort to others.

When I was reading about the children of Israel in Exodus 3, I felt like the Lord had a word for us, too. I am paraphrasing it a bit.

And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Somebody's Mother Group and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, (The hurt and pain of the love they have for their family members who have are struggling) for I know their sorrows. So, I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the of the enemy and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, a land where you can have peace and praise the Lord

For the real deal read Exodus yourself.