The New Year!

A friend sent this, just had to share 🙂

“In a Peanuts strip Lucy once grumbled to poor Charlie Brown about the awful New Year she was having. She complained that problems abounded, and she felt that difficulties were around every corner. Then she said, “I don’t think this is a New Year at all – I think we’ve been stuck with a USED year!!”. Truly, only prayer can bring the “Peace of God, which transcends all understanding” into the heart and mind. 

Fears, doubts, and unwarranted cares divide, distract, bewilder, and destroy unity and quietness of mind. What great need to guard against them and learn the one secret of their cure – prayer! Prayer about everything can quiet every distraction, and lift every care from weary lives and from confused hearts. The specific prayer is the perfect cure for all anxieties, cares, and worries. Only fervent prayer and trust in our Lord can drive worry away and save from worrying over things we cannot change.

The mere act of praying is no test of our relationship with our Heavenly Father. It may simply be a routine of habit of the mind and not from the heart. But to fervently pray and receive clear answers and direction (i.e. may or may not be what you thought should be) IS the sure test and IS God’s Mercy and Grace for our vital connection with Jesus Christ. We should always ask before we pray, that God sends His Holy Spirit to teach us to pray right. To always praise the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for ALL things, is a good start. The Best Part is that Jesus Christ helps us with our prayers to His Father! What an Awesome Representative we have, that Loves and Cares for you SO much, to always be there for you!

My thoughts and prayers are that, in this New Year coming up, you are Renewed and Refreshed in body, mind, and Spirit. That you are Alive and Awaken in the knowledge that God IS Good in ALL things. That your prayers are fervent and from your heart, receiving your Father’s Clear Answers and Direction for His Will and Purpose for you. In Jesus’ Name. Thy Will be done. Amen. Peace.“