Shanelle Ann

Why We Should Be Grateful for our ”Wrinkles” in Life [04-12]

Quote (April 12, 2020): "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." (Mark Twain)"Blessed (Happy) are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold." (Prov. 3:13-14)

A Prayer for Wisdom and Lack of Doubt [04-11]

Quote (April 11, 2020): "Doubt whom you will but never yourself." (Christian Nestell Bovee)"If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt......because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do." (James 1:5-8)

A Prayer to Keep Enthusiasm: Finding Satisfaction in the Christian Life [04-10]

Quote (April 10, 2020): "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing Enthusiasm." (Winston Churchill)"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand" (Isa. 21:10).

A Prayer to Follow After God’s Great and Difficult Plan for Us [04-09]

Quote (April 9, 2020): "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." (Beverly Sills)"Show me the right path, O LORD; point out the road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you." (Psa. 25:4-5)

A Prayer to have Strength to Save Ourselves through Christ [04-08]

Quote (April 8th, 2020): "Sometimes you have to be your own hero."Ecclesiastes 11:4-10 -> Whose who wait for perfect weather will never plant seeds; those who look at every cloud will never harvest crops.... You don't know what God is doing, or how, so do just take action."For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "Plans for Good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." (Jer. 29:11)Christ has already sent the invitation to be our Hero, we just need to accept and choose to save ourselves. We need to take up our cross and follow him to be our own Heroes for our worldly bodies. Superman doesn't exist, but Christ does. So lets take up our cross and stop waiting for happiness or a perfect life without action.

A Prayer of Encouragement to Keep Pushing Forward [04-06/07]

Quote (April 06/07, 2020): "Push Yourself"Isaiah 53 talks of the coming Messiah's struggles with men but how he overcame the world in the end. God allowed one of his sheep to be led to the slaughter but only to save the many other sheep that God has called and wants in His Kingdom.Isaiah 54 gives us a hope for future Israel. Yes, they have been through a lot at this point but God tells them to continue pushing on because he is their God and in the end they will prevail. We need to push ourselves with absence of the fear of men. God is our God and we need to push ourselves to shape our characters and be the best we can be for his soon coming Kingdom.

Embracing and Overcoming Fear [04-05]

Quote (April 5, 2020): "Be Scared, and do it Anyway.""So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." (Isa. 41:10)"for you have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 John 4:18)

Determining the Purpose of Life [04-04]

Quote (April 4, 2020): "The purpose of life is to be happy." (Dalai Lama)(Ecc. 9:7-10)

A Man of Faith in the Bible is Known by His Courage [04-03]

Quote (April 3, 2020): "A man of Courage is also full of Faith." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ." (Eph. 3:16-19

A Prayer for the Healthy to Help the UnHealthy || Health = Hope = Everything [04-02]

Quote (April 2, 2020): "He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything." (Thomas Carlyle)"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me... he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord." (Luke 4:18-19)"And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation." (Romans 5:4)"For I know the plans I have for you." Declares the LORD. "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you Hope and a Future." (Jeremiah 29:11)