God working through others

My sister Liz is a chaplain at a hospital and is assigned to the neo natal ward.  Today there is a memorial service for the babies who went on to be with God.  She said there are over 400 that die from miscarriage to still births to complications after delivery every year in her hospital. Liz has a special gift to love on these families and pray for them.  What a gift God has given her to use for His purpose.

Life can really stink.  Everyone will experience loss during their lifetime. One of our reasons to be here is to help those who are suffering.  Love on those who are lonely.  Feed those who are hungry.  

Everyone wants to know their purpose in life.  This is no secret.  We were created by God to be used for His purpose and bring glory to God.  We do this by loving God, loving others, and loving yourself.  Don't make it complicated.  Take every moment and use it as an opportunity to help someone. To forgive someone. To love someone.  Take this moment and change your life to live and to love.  Let go of hatred. Stop being scared and mean. Start living for others.  Share your love with everyone.  

Ask God to make you more loving in your heart.

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Why do we pray?

This is taken from www.one place.com by Adrian Rogers

Why do we pray?

It's very important to understand this: we are inviting God into our lives when we pray.

When we pray, we experience —

• Fellowship. 

We become "workers together with Him" (2 Corinthians 6:1). When we pray, God gives us the joy and privilege of administrating His kingdom, His affairs — working together with Him. He could do it without us. We could not do it without Him. But what a glory that God allows us the privilege of doing it with Him!

• Development. 

When we pray, God is growing us. Have you ever prayed and didn't receive immediately what you asked for? What did you do? You kept on praying, but you also began to search your heart and life to see if something was hindering God's answer. Many times there is. God uses prayer to grow us.

• Dependency. 

God never wants us to live lives independent of Him. If God just did everything for us and we never had to pray, soon we would begin to take things for granted. We would cease to depend upon God.

Prayer Binds Us to God

That's why we tell God what He already knows. He knows what we have need of before we ask, but we're definitely, specifically, unqualifiedly told to pray and to ask — not to impress or inform God, but to invite God, so that we might have that fellowship with Him, so that we might grow, and we would learn to depend upon Him.