Multnomah Falls, Oregon
Psalms 69:29-30
But I am poor and sorrowful;
Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
Columbia River, Washington, Oregon
Colossians 1:3
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
Columbia River, Oregon and Washington
Multnomah Falls, Oregon
The best verse or maybe a great one that is super encouraging is: Luke 11:9-13
“So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 11 What father …. 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
So we have a wonderful Heavenly Father who loves us and cares for us. We just need to ask Him for what we need. Look at the phrase “keep knocking”, this means do not give up. Don’t think that our Father in heaven has forgotten us. Keep asking, keep seeking, and keep knocking. And keep believing our wonderful Father.
The morning time is the best time to connect with God in daily Bible reading. What is it about the morning time where this is just the best time for Bible verses to be streamed into our being.
Cannon Beach from Ecola State Park
Many times our morning prayer time is interrupted by anxiety. So what should have been a wonderful time with the Lord becomes a time to worry about things.
Then watch this short devotional video on “Morning Prayer Encouragement”
Here is an inspirational Bible verse on the morning time prayer: Psalm 88:13 But unto thee, O Lord, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
Enjoy a short devotional video on “Pray, Let God Worry”
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Some of us who are very active (like me) find it sometimes even hard to just read the Bible. We always have another idea to develop for some project or initiative, and our minds just will not stop to listed to God’s word. But still its best to try as we can to devote time in the morning to God in prayer.
Canon Beach Haystack Rock
Here is another inspirational prayer Bible verse on the morning time: Psalm 5:3 O Lord, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.
Morning Prayer Encouragement
God loves morning prayer time. What a great time to pray and think about God, the source of our life. The Morning sets the direction for the day.
Psalms 26:7 That We may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, And tell of all Your wondrous works.
Canon Beach Haystack Rock
Psalms 69:30 We will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 100:4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
Canon Beach from Ecola
Nehemiah 12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
Psalms 116:17 We will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
And we will call upon the name of the Lord.Philippians 4:6 So be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
Columbia River, Trains going up and down the Columbia River on the Washington Side
Colossians 2:7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
Revelation 7:1 “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom,
Thanksgiving and honor and power and might,
Be to our God forever and ever.
Amen.”
In this verse the two words prayer and thanksgiving are mentioned. Colossians 4:2 Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;
Cannon Beach Sunset
Here is something I forget to do often, and that is to thank The Lord for all He has done. God has done so much for us. He created us. He sent His son to save and redeem us. God gave us life and breath. He gave us joy and happiness (and some sorrow). Jesus will come again one day and bring us into the New Jerusalem (called heaven by some).
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Psalm 88:13 But, I, unto thee, O Yahweh, have cried for help, And, in the morning, my prayer will confront thee! The morning is the best time to spend time reading the Bible and praying.
Sunrise on the Sea of Galilee, Israel
Prayer and reading can set the day in the correct direction. The best time to pray is in the morning.
Prayer is a relationship with God that comes from spending time with God. The best time is in the morning before 50 thousand other things distract us. Morning time sets the day in the correct mode.
The Bible verse in Psalms is from the Rotherham emphasized translation.
In Romans chapter 8 we come to a great verse on life and peace. After Paul in Romans spends many chapters on God’s condemnation of sinful man, and the justification only available through what God did in Jesus, we now come to chapter eight, a chapter about living in the Spirit. No matter what man could do to rescue himself, only God’s work could do this. Man with his great desire to please God, just cannot satisfy God’s requirement. Only the work that Jesus did on the cross could satisfy what God requires.
Multnomah Falls, Oregon
So in Romans chapter eight we come to: Romans 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death; but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. This means to walk in the Spirit by following the Lord brings peace in our life. So peace comes by walking with the Lord.
Columbia River, railroad tracks
This is the prayer at the end of the Bible. It is the last prayer in the whole Bible. It is the second to the last verse of the Bible. It is the last prayer and almost the last verse in the book of Revelation. It is the finale, the last prayer made by God in the Bible. The final prayer “Come Lord Jesus”. What a conclusion to invite the Lord Lesus into everything in our life. Not just for Him to come again, as He will one day in His second coming, but to actually let Him be Lord in our lives. So let Him come in and bring our lives back to what He wants to do in us and through us.
Spokane River near Downtown in Spring
God is real, a living person, the creator of the universe, the designer of the atom and DNA. He designed every solar system and every living thing on the earth. So He has plans for our life and what we do. So just pray this final prayer in the Bible from Revelation 22:2o “Come Lord Jesus”
Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
To get a few more points on this topic, see the blog article on Jonah – When God speaks, He eventually gets His way.