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Prayer: Overflow With Kindness Fruit, But My Flesh is Rotten

by Nan Jones | Jul 4, 2021 | bible devotions online, Christian Living, Finding God's Presence, Nan Jones author and speaker, prayer, Recognizing God | 0 |

Lord, I love You so much and my greatest desire is to honor You — to glorify You in my life. I want to overflow with kindness, to take Your love into a hurting world, but Lord … some days my flesh is just plain rotten!

I know it. I recognize the attitude simmering just below the surface …

A Prayer When You Know He is Lord, But Obedience is Hard

by Nan Jones | Jan 27, 2019 | bible devotions online, Nan Jones author and speaker, prayer | 0 |

What a mighty God You are! Full of glory, majestic beyond comprehension, tender in Your love. You are awesome, Lord.

Thank You for making a way for us to know You. It still blows my mind that You know my name, You know all that concerns me, and You want to spend time with me.

That’s where the shift occurs, isn’t it?

Finding God’s Presence ~ A Prayer to Know The Holy One

by Nan Jones | Jun 11, 2017 | bible devotions online, Nan Jones author and speaker, prayer, The Holy One, women's ministry | 2 |

Lord, You are the Holy One, the Almighty God, who sanctifies us … You have called us to be holy, just as You are holy, not in and of ourselves, but through the precious blood of Jesus — the Lord our Righteousness …

But then life happens and it becomes hard to be holy as You are holy and we fail You miserably Lord. Please forgive us. Please help us realize this “becoming holy as You are holy” is a journey, a process … a hard fought battle between flesh and spirit.

Elijah, Orb-Weaver Spiders, and Tenacity With a Little Chutzpah Thrown In

by Nan Jones | Sep 14, 2016 | bible devotions online, how to find God's Presence, inspiration, Nan Jones author and speaker, women's ministry | 10 |

Did you realize Elijah is just like us? In spite of his greatness and the miracles that followed his walk with God, he was still subject to the same feelings and weaknesses as us. In fact, right after this remarkable miracle of defeating 450 of Baal’s prophets and then praying for rain to end a three year drought, this mighty man of faith ran for his life because Jezebel threatened to kill him! In fact, he ran into the wilderness for a day and collapsed beneath a juniper tree and told the Lord “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life!”