A Remarkable Prayer

Last night when I am about to sleep, I am thinking of what gift I will ask from God on my birthday. I am pondering and searching my heart what will I ask Him in prayer. Yes, I have one material gift I want to receive but I am planning to buy it for myself and that is a guitar. I want to learn playing guitar in preparation for a higher calling. Aside from studying His Word, I also want to play praises and worships to Him while singing. If He will bless me with this talent, I want to use it for His glory so that in His perfect timing on sending me wherever He wants then I can use this talent on touching lives aside from sharing the Gospel. However, my great desire is to be the woman He wants me to be. It is my prayer to be a woman after His own heart. To live a life that is accordance to His will. On my devotion, I have read this remarkable prayer of a man who wants to offer his whole life to God. I was moved with this prayer because this noble man's prayer is also my prayer, my heart's desire. May I also be used and touch hundreds of lives as this man was after praying this prayer.


"Lord, here I am, I am Yours. The rest of my life, whatever You want me to do, if You will show me and convince me what You want, I will do it. The attitudes You want me to have, I will have. As I study and read Your Word, I will try to carry out what You tell me to do, and think the way You tell me to think. Here I am, Lord; do with my life as You want."

Time for God

Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: A Lamp For My Feet
Scripture Reference: Exodus 17:6

Time for God

It is a good and necessary thing to set aside time for God in each day. The busier the day, the more indispensable is this quiet period for prayer, Bible reading, and silent listening. It often happens, however, that I find my mind so full of earthly matters that it seems I have gotten up early in vain and have wasted three-fourths of the time so dearly bought (I do love my sleep!). But I have come to believe that the act of will required to arrange time for God may be an offering to Him. As such He accepts it, and what would otherwise be "loss" to me I count as "gain" for Christ.

Let us not be "weary in well-doing," or discouraged in the pursuit of holiness. Let us, like Moses, go to the Rock of Horeb--and God says to us what He said to him, "You will find me waiting for you there" (Ex 17:6 NEB).

Sunrise is an Act of God

Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: A Lamp For My Feet
Scripture Reference: John 15:10

Sunrise is an Act of God

The night sky, when I went to the front window this morning, was a clear dark blue, with a few sharp stars. Now, as it reddens toward dawn, a thick quilt of slate-colored cloud is moving over the whole sky, leaving only a strip of rose gold. But I am sure the sun will rise even though covered with a quilt.

We assume the sun will always rise. It always has. But it rises because God continues to will it so, not because it must in and of itself. I breathe, not because I am a smoothly functioning breathing machine, but because He who holds my breath in his hand wills me to breathe, as He wills the squirrel to breathe in the oak grove beside my house and the crow that perches in the scrub pine.

The will of God is not a given quantity. It is creative, dynamic, flowing action. Jesus participated in that action by submitting to the Will and moving with power along the "appointed way," according to the "appointed time," choosing the Father's will above his own.

The sun does no choosing. God chooses--every morning so far--to make it rise. Yet the Lord of the universe asks me to choose to follow Him--to participate, as Christ did, in the flowing action which is his ill. "Dwell in my love. If you heed my commands, you will dwell in my love, as I have heeded my Father's commands and dwell in His love" (Jn 15:10 NEB).