Answer to prayer

We have an amazing God, who answers prayers. Last November I was told that I was being made redundant in the New Year. Richard and I have over the years been in this situation many times and every time God has answered our prayers so I prayed that a job would fall in my lap. Rather flipant I know, anyway I was put on Garden leave last Tuesday my leaving date is 7th March. Today I went for an interview for a job that someone phoned me about. I start my new job in Oadby (so I can still visit my Ladies) next Monday and all the Glory belongs to God.
Mandy

29th February

Oh dear someone forgot it was a leap year and has missed out the 29th

I can really know you .... this is amazing!

My recommendation of the day! 

Yesterday I got away from it all and went for my Lord's Prayer moment in the cathedral during my lunch break. Perhaps if you work in the city like me, you wanna give it a go, I had a great time, proving that it is true that man does not live on 'Subway' alone!

Today's 1 John 5:20-21 leads me to reflect on the words of Jesus in Matthew 7:21-23 where He plainly warns us that many will say Lord Lord didn't we do this and this and this and He will plainly say 'away from me I never knew you' (my paraphrase). 

Giving Jesus credit

I often find it difficult to take a fresh perspective on a familiar story - my 'auto-pilot' takes over and my mind is already at the end of the story before my eyes have a chance to catch up. This Sunday morning we heard about Jesus' miracle at the wedding at Cana (John 2), and the powerful message it brings of change in our lives and in the world. I was struck, though, by the context of the miracle.

I really enjoyed meeting with Jesus last night during the evening service! It was great to hear all the testimonies about what God is doing and I'm excited about all that God is going to do as we Breathe together...Personally I felt God affirm again my calling to serve Him humbly and obediently. I also connected with the biblical character of Joshua and the promise that "God will give you every place where you set your foot." (Joshua 1.3)

Drawing Closer to God

Lord I thank you for all those involved in putting together this Breathe initiative, I pray this it will impact me personally, and all those who are seeking you through Breathe, I pray it will grow our church in a deeper understanding of you.

Amen.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am really excited about all this.

Mandy

I am

John 8: 57-59

As I seek to follow the great 'I am', I pray to be like Christ today and say

I am willing to be 'crucified' with false allegations for the sake of the gospel (verse 48)

I am praying that I will be posessed with a single focus to honour God (verse 49)

I am going to point people to the Father who alone is the judge of all (verse 50)

I am going to live forever and not die (verse 51)

I am going to live by a superior realm to the natural order of things (verse 52-53)

I am going to be glorified and set apart as a Jesus man! (verse 54)

I am created to know God and keep his word (verse 55)

I am going to live for Jesus return (verse 56-57)

I am ready to be persecuted for my faith (verse 59)

Amen

Held by God

As I try to live with a knowledge of God’s presence with me an image that helps me is being held in God’s hands.  In prayer we give ourselves afresh to God and place ourselves in his hands: our hopes and fears, responsibilities and needs, our hearts and emotions, everything.  I love the sense of peace and joy that comes as I thank God that I am held by him and he is with me in all that I am facing.  As always better pray-ers and wiser people have explained this much better than I can -

God moving in our children

It has been great to hear from many sources how the children at HT are moving forward in prayer, and relationship with God.

Practicing Breathe with the family

For the last 3 days we have been using “take a deep breath” (p7 of the Breathe booklet, PDF) as a family after breakfast. The delight has been to see how this framework has helped our children to pray with more depth than ever before and to help them focus on God. Sam’s prayer around the John 1 passage this morning was beautiful. 

This might work for other families too.

Alex

John 1:1-14

John 1:1-14 Have you ever bore the pain of walking into a room and it being as though you were not even there present. It was like people neither recoginsed you or received you. How magnified that must have been and still is today for the maker of the universe. The difference between me and the maker of the universe is that my reaction is to say, 'stuff them', but God's reaction, isn't even a reaction, it's just who he is, to be 'full of grace and truth' to the point of crying out 'Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.' WOW! what amazing grace, the depth of his compassion is beyond me, I'd be calling down curses. How much greater for us then who recognise Jesus and receive his reign and rule into our lives. For us, it says, we will be blessed, with 'one blessing after another'. Oh how great are the benefits of being a 'child of God'. May I sing it out from the rooftops how great it is to recognise and receive the light of life. And as for the truth that the light of life, the maker of the universe wants to take up residence inside of me, I would have been happy to worship him, but greater still is the benefit, the reward, that 'the word who became flesh' wants to live inside of me. Surely today is going to be a good day!

Deeper life with God

So looking forward to getting deeper with God

Welcome

Welcome to the Breathe prayer blog from Holy Trinity, Leicester. We would love you to post stories of how God is leading you in prayer, answers to prayer and what you sense God saying to us as a church. We will be posting regular teaching articles about prayer and our life with God so keep coming back to be encouraged and see how God is leading us forward.