“Discover creative ways to encourage others and to motivate them toward acts of compassion, doing beautiful works as expressions of love.” Hebrews 10:24
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A couple of my coworkers just led me through a prayer session. I have been through every kind of prayer we do here, and, every time, I feel like God speaks identity over me. I’ve wondered if people who haven’t heard God’s voice are curious about what people hear when they come to ONE and learn how to listen to God. I want to share my experience in hopes to give people insight into why we do prayer here.
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As parents, we have the incredible privilege of partnering with God to help our children discover who God made them to be. A simple place to start is by researching the meaning of your child’s name.
In Biblical times, naming children was not taken lightly. People strongly believed that names influenced identity and destiny, so simply saying the child’s name became a declaration and a reminder of who they were.
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Years ago, my husband and I had a young woman living with us who needed help growing into the person God created her to be. Because of the pain of her childhood, relationships were a constant struggle for her and it was no different with us. She struggled to connect with both me and my husband, sometimes becoming defensive or feeling wounded. We were trying to negotiate a particularly thorny issue when, all of a sudden, I had a revelation and saw the problem clearly: she had all walls and no boundaries. In that moment, I was aware that the primary thing she had had to learn growing up was how to defend and protect herself.
Read MoreA few days ago, I hurriedly jumped into my car, running late for an important doctor’s appointment. I put the address in my GPS and sped off, glancing every once in a while at the map so I’d know where to turn next. As I drove, I thought to myself how disappointed I was with the way I was feeling. I felt very down - sad, discouraged. I’d battled these feelings much of my life, even after becoming a Christian, and it bothered me that I still felt so low at times. My thoughts bombarded me, one after another with no break.
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“Just as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord’s wrap-around presence surrounds his people, protecting them now and forever” (Psalm 125-2)
God, thank You that You are the God who protects.
You have no fear. No worry. No confusion.
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Jesus, you are the master Storyteller!
Thank you for those you have called to share news and stories with us.
We honor the important bridge they are for each of us.
We respect the bold ways they navigate communication gaps between time, space, people and place.
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Creator God, give this business creative ways to adapt to serve their neighbors in this time.
We bless their endeavors to prosper.
For those who are struggling and for those who have closed, we ask You to make Yourself known to every owner and employee in even greater ways today and in the days to come.
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Jesus, you hold our city of San Antonio, you hold our leaders and you hold us.
You are the One who has gone before us, who is with us now and who will never leave us.
You have gifted us with these leaders for this very season.
Read MoreA 7-year-old boy who has been experiencing nightmares is invited to color a picture that describes what the nightmares are like. He reaches for the crayons and picks out blacks and browns and reds, scribbling dark, jagged-looking shapes surrounding a small stick figure in a square, which he explains is him in his bed. A prayer minister gently asks him what kind of feelings go with the picture and he replies “scared” and “bad”. The prayer minister asks if he’d like to let Jesus help him draw a new picture and he nods.
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Some years ago, I was diagnosed with cancer and one night as I was driving, I called on God to honor the promises of scripture. In true Word-of-Faith fashion I said out loud (and quite loudly because I was certain volume made my prayers work better), “You will heal me because Isaiah 53:5 says we are healed by his stripes. You will heal me because James 5:15 says the prayer of faith will restore whoever is sick.” I continued down the list. “You will heal me because Psalm 91 says no plague will come near me and you will heal me because Matthew 12:15 says Jesus healed all who were sick. You will heal me because…” And right at that moment something caught in my heart and my throat, a hiccup or a hitch that interrupted my rant, and the bravado evaporated and tears spilled down my cheeks and I whispered shakily, “Would you heal me just because you love me?”
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