Unapologetically Marcia

Wednesday Morning Prayer (Wk7/2021)

Almighty Father, I come before You with thanksgiving, honour and praise. I glorify Your Name. Your Word tells me, I love Your Son Jesus Christ because He first loved me. He laid down His life for me whilst I was so unworthy and it is because of my realisation and acceptance, that I am made worthy. I thank You that, as You look down at me, You see the Blood of Your Son and I am considered redeemed; paid for in full. I thank You for the calling and give thanks that everything I do, is evidence of the salvation I have received. On a daily basis I take up my cross and follow You, answering with my whole heart and being. Therefore, my prayer is that I will continually have hope in victory; faith that You will always do what You have promised because You cannot lie; and remember the first and greatest commandment, which is to love You with all my heart, mind and soul.

⁴³“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ⁴⁴But I tell you, love your enemies. Pray for those who treat you badly. ⁴⁵If you do this, you will be children who are truly like your Father in heaven. He lets the sun rise for all people, whether they are good or bad. He sends rain to those who do right and to those who do wrong.
Matthew 5:43-45 (ERV)

And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbor the same as you love yourself.’
Matthew 22:39 (ERV)

Then Jesus taught the followers that they should always pray and never lose hope. He used this story to teach them:
Luke 18:1 (ERV)

¹⁴“But I will tell you this: I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of the Way, which these Jews say is not the right way, and I believe everything that is taught in the Law of Moses and all that is written in the books of the prophets. ¹⁵I have the same hope in God that these Jews have—the hope that all people, good and bad, will be raised from death.¹⁶This is why I always try to do what I believe is right before God and before everyone.
Acts 24:4-16 (ERV)

There was no hope that Abraham would have children, but Abraham believed God and continued to hope. And that is why he became the father of many nations. As God told him, “You will have many descendants.”
Romans 4:18 (ERV)

Faith is what makes real the things we hope for. It is proof of what we cannot see. God was pleased with the people who lived a long time ago because they had faith like this. Faith helps us understand that God created the whole world by His command. This means that the things we see were made by something that cannot be seen.
Hebrews 11:1-3 (ERV)

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)

¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, and I made plans like a child. When I became a man, I stopped those childish ways. ¹²It is the same with us. Now we see God as if we are looking at a reflection in a mirror. But then, in the future, we will see him right before our eyes. Now I know only a part, but at that time I will know fully, as God has known me. ¹³So these three things continue: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:11-13 (ERV)

To You who is able to keep me from falling and to present me before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy – to You who is the only God, my Saviour, be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Yeshua The Anointed One, my Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Tuesday Morning Prayer (Wk7/2021)

Today, I look where I was, to where I am now, and thank You that I am blessed. It is because I am blessed that I can choose to be happy. Life has thrown so much at me but I still persist in my attempt to live my life in a way that is pleasing to You, even more so. If I remain focused on You, Yeshua HaMashiach, I need not fear. All that is on this earth is for Your Kingdom and I, being a part of it, should be happy that I live within the realms that You have provided. I am in the world but not of the world. Your Word says that at the right time my storehouse will be opened and I will be sent Your richest blessings. Everything I touch will be blessed. You will send down the latter rain at the right time; ideas will spring forth; dreams will become projects; projects will reap souls for the Kingdom and tangible assets; I will neither hunger nor lack any good thing, whether it be food, clothing or resources: I will begin to thrive with an overflow.

To be blessed is to be holy, consecrated and set apart, what choice do I have but to be both blessed and happy.

How blessed and favored by God are those whose way is blameless (those with personal integrity, the upright, the guileless), Who walk in the law (and who are guided by the precepts and revealed will) of the Lord.
Psalm 119:1 (AMP)

My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman, That I may meditate on Your word.
Psalm 119:148 (AMP)

Blessed (happy and sheltered by God’s favour) is everyone who fears the Lord (and worships Him with obedience), who walks in His ways and lives according to His commandments.
Psalm 128:1 (AMP)

So I have seen that there is nothing better than that a man should be happy in his own works and activities, for that is his portion (share). For who will bring him (back) to see what will happen after he is gone?
Ecclesiastes 3:22 (AMP)

The people of Israel will come to the top of Zion, and they will shout with joy. Their faces will shine with happiness about the good things the Lord gives them. He will give them grain, new wine, olive oil, young sheep and cattle. They will be like a garden that has plenty of water. And the people of Israel will not be troubled anymore.
Jeremiah 31:12 (ERV)

“The master answered, ‘You did right. You are a good servant who can be trusted. You did well with a small amount of money. So I will let you care for much greater things. Come and share my happiness with me.’
Matthew 25:23 (ERV)

“For God so (greatly) loved and dearly prized the world, that He (even) gave His (One and) only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him (as Saviour) shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world (that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world), but that the world might be saved through Him.
John 3:16-17 (AMP)

¹²While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name—the name you gave me. I protected them. And only one of them was lost—the one who was sure to be lost. This was to show the truth of what the Scriptures said would happen. ¹³“I am coming to you now. But I pray these things while I am still in the world. I say all this so that these followers can have the true happiness that I have. I want them to be completely happy. ¹⁴I have given them your teaching. And the world has hated them, because they don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world.
John 17:12-14 (ERV)

Monday Morning Prayer (Wk7/2021)

Almighty God, I come before You, the Creator and Sustainer of all people and things; known and unknown; seen and unseen. I ask You for forgiveness of all my sins and look forward to all I am to come across this week. I am aware that because You stand outside of time known to man and have seen and know what test and trials I will come across. Therefore, my trust is in You.

Today, I thank You that it is because of Your Son, Jesus Christ, I am able to break every chain. I am no longer bound by things outside of You. Depression is not my portion. Doubt is not my portion. Pain is not my portion. Sickness is not my portion. Struggle with sin, is not my portion. I hand it all over to You. If I learn to lean on You, all chains will be broken. No matter where I am and no matter my standing or level in life, I know that within Your Kingdom, everyone is equal. The small will be made great and the great will become small: the first will be last and the last will be first. Gone are any inferiority complexes or any reasons that may make me feel puffed up. Neither leave nor forsake me and keep me focused on You.

¹⁷But that was not enough for you (a small thing in your eyes), God. You have also made promises about my future family (spoken about your servant’s house in the distant future). Lord God, you have treated me like a very important (great; exalted) person.
1 Chronicles 17:17 (EXP)

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7 (AMP)

²²Jesus replied, “Have faith in God (constantly). ²³I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!’ and does not doubt in his heart (in God’s unlimited power), but believes that what he says is going to take place, it will be done for him (in accordance with God’s will). ²⁴For this reason I am telling you, whatever things you ask for in prayer (in accordance with God’s will), believe (with confident trust) that you have received them, and they will be given to you.
Mark 11:22-24 (AMP)

But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.
Matthew 19:30 (NIV)

Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”
Luke 13:30 (NIV)

Thought For The Day – Smile (Wk7/2021)

Sunday Morning Prayer (Wk6/2021)

Abba Father, Today is the day mankind recognises for love. Love for the special person in their lives or the one they would like to be part of their lives. Today I pray that thought is given to what the true meaning of love is; not feelings of lust but true love. Not love only for our nearest and dearest but true love for mankind the world over. Let us have love for those we have never met before, no matter their colour, ethnicity, race, sex, sexual orientation or sexual preference. Let us love those who are different; remembering that we only love because Yeshua HaMashiach first loved us. May we have and show agape love.

Therefore know (without any doubt) and understand that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who is keeping His covenant and His (steadfast) loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
Deuteronomy 7:9 (AMP)

He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your (olive) oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 7:13 (AMP)

Let Love Be Your Guide
I may speak in different languages, whether human or even of angels. But if I don’t have love, I am only a noisy bell or a ringing cymbal. ²I may have the gift of prophecy, I may understand all secrets and know everything there is to know, and I may have faith so great that I can move mountains. But even with all this, if I don’t have love, I am nothing.³I may give away everything I have to help others, and I may even give my body as an offering to be burned. But I gain nothing by doing all this if I don’t have love. ⁴Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud. ⁵Love is not rude, it is not selfish, and it cannot be made angry easily. Love does not remember wrongs done against it. ⁶Love is never happy when others do wrong, but it is always happy with the truth. ⁷Love never gives up on people. It never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits. ⁸Love will never end. But all those gifts will come to an end—even the gift of prophecy, the gift of speaking in different kinds of languages, and the gift of knowledge.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8 (ERV)

Someone might say, “I am in the light,” but if they hate any of their brothers or sisters in God’s family, they are still in the darkness. Those who love their brothers and sisters live in the light, and there is nothing in them that will make them do wrong.
1 John 2:9-10 (ERV)

Saturday Morning Prayer (Wk6/2021)

Today, I choose to meditate on You. I ask that You reveal Yourself to me in a way that You have never done. I want to see Your Glory. You say in Your Word, that in the last days our sons and daughters will prophesy; old men will dream dreams; and young men will see visions. I call on You, Mighty God, that all those on this globe, who are ready to receive what You have laid out for them, will receive. It shall not pass us by. As we experience these things, I pray that we will not fear but know it is You speaking. Let us, Your sheep, hear Your voice. Prepare us to be a sanctuary for You.

Never stop reciting these teachings. You must think about them night and day so that you will faithfully do everything written in them. Only then will you prosper and succeed.
Joshua 1:8 (GW)

Sing to him. Make music to praise him. Meditate on all the miracles he has done.
1 Chronicles 16:9 (GW)

And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Joel 2:28 (NIV)

“‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2:17 (NIV)

²⁰having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the (chief) Cornerstone, ²¹in whom the whole structure is joined together, and it continues (to increase) growing into a holy temple in the Lord (a sanctuary dedicated, set apart, and sacred to the presence of the Lord). ²²In Him (and in fellowship with one another) you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:20-22 (AMP)

…….To those who are the called (God’s chosen ones, the elect), dearly loved by God the Father, and kept (secure and set apart) for Jesus Christ: ²May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you (filling your heart with the spiritual well-being and serenity experienced by those who walk closely with God).
Jude 1:1-2 (AMP)

Friday Morning Prayer (Wk5/2021)

Almighty God, I thank You for this brand new morning You have placed before me and give you honour, glory and praise.

Today, I ask for an increase of trust in You. May I not fear but have full trust in what You plan to do. I thank You for who You are and for choosing me as a vessel to help reap the lost souls in the world. As I tend to Your work I pray that You place a hedge of protection around me in both the spiritual and physical realm. I leave myself open to hear Your voice, may I not be deaf to its sound.

I will give You thanks with all my heart; I sing praises to You before the (pagan) gods. I will bow down (in worship) toward Your holy temple And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your Word together with Your name. On the day I called, You answered me; And You made me bold and confident with (renewed) strength in my life. …
Psalm 138:1-3 (AMP)

To You who is able to keep me from falling and to present me before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy to You who is the only God, my Saviour, be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Yeshua The Anointed One, my Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen Jude 1:24-25

Thursday Morning Prayer (Wk5/2021)

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:21-23 (AMP)

El Hayyay – God of My Life, I lift You up giving glory, honour and praise. I come before You asking for forgiveness of my sins of thoughts, words, deeds; known and unknown, seen and unseen. I thank You for what You have done, what You are doing and what You intend to do.

Today I’m asking to be refined. I request the beginning of the process for my sins to be consumed and me refined. I pray all impurities are removed and my physical, mental and spiritual self is changed, so only the reflection of You will be felt and seen. As I go through the heat that life puts my way, in the form of doubt, temptation, uncalled for or unholy anger, resentment, all harmful and negative emotions, rejection of all that is good or jealousy; I ask that I may feel Your presence. Especially in these unusual circumstances everyone faces, I pray nothing will prevent me from taking hold of the blessings, gifts and promises You are providing. Help me, as I am refined, to realise and remember Your promises. For by the stripes of Your Son Yeshua HaMashiach, I have been healed. I am forgiven. I am made whole.

Many people will be made pure—they will make themselves clean. But evil people will continue to be evil. And those wicked people will not understand these things, but the wise people will understand them.
Daniel 12:10 (ESV)

“And I will bring the third part through the fire, Refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will listen and answer them; I will say, ‘They are My people,’ And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Zechariah 13:9 (AMP)

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s soap (which removes impurities and uncleanness).
Malachi 3:2 (AMP)

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. ⁵And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,
“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
⁶because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”
Hebrews 12:4-6 (AMP

²⁸Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, and offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship with reverence and awe; ²⁹for our God is (indeed) a consuming fire.
Hebrews 12:28-29 (AMP)

Wednesday Morning Prayer (Wk5/2021)

The generous man (is a source of blessing and) shall be prosperous and enriched, And he who waters will himself be watered (reaping the generosity he has sown).
Proverbs 11:25 (AMP)

El Hayyay – God of my Life, I come before You asking for forgiveness and, as I do so, I come empty. Without You I am nothing but, with You I am everything. A few days ago I prayed that You would be my first thought in the morning and my last at night. Therefore, I come before You this morning, empty and ready to be filled.

Today my request is regarding overflow. I wish to be running to an overflow at all times; 24/7 365. We are promised abundance, blessings, enduring love, favour, honour, long life, prosperity, protection and much more. Your Word tells me, there is no good thing which You will withhold from me. Thank You. I give thanks that You are not just a god but You are the True God and, because of that, I can ask and I will receive. You have said that I can ask anything and it shall be mine, as long as it is within Your will for my life. Your Word tells me that You are an on-time God, so if You have said it, I can believe it and expect it. My request is that I am brought to higher heights and deeper depths in You. I yearn to lose control, as I trust in You. Again, if you can use anything Lord, You can use me. Have Your way.

Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8 (AKJV)

And the threshing floors shall be full of grain, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
Joel 2:24 (AMP)

The (intrinsically) good man produces what is good and honourable and moral out of the good treasure (stored) in his heart; and the (intrinsically) evil man produces what is wicked and depraved out of the evil (in his heart); for his mouth speaks from the overflow of his heart.
Luke 6:45 (AMP)

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been (deeply) rooted and (securely) grounded in love, ¹⁸be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love (fully experiencing that amazing, endless love); ¹⁹and (that you may come) to know (practically, through personal experience) the love of Christ which far surpasses (mere) knowledge (without experience), that you may be filled up (throughout your being) to all the fullness of God (so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself).
Ephesians 3:17-19 (AMP)

‘…having been deeply rooted (in Him) and now being continually built up in Him and (becoming increasingly more) established in your faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing in it with gratitude.
Colossians 2:7 (AMP)

Tuesday Morning Prayer (Wk5/2021)

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:21-23 (NIV)

El Emunah. My God and Father. The Great and Mighty God of all. The One who is the Creator of all that is seen and unseen; things before, right now and ahead. I ask You for forgiveness of sins, whether they be of thoughts, words or deeds. I thank You that my sins are as far from me as the east is from the west, so You can use me once again.

Today I come before You to give thanks, because Your mercies are new every morning. Life is a long road that has many things that step into our paths to sidetrack us, blind us, slow us down or speed us up. However, I can thank You for always being a God of a second chance; I can pull on Your mercy as it endures forever. You are a Faithful God and no matter how many times I fail, You are there to lift me up, forgive me and place me back up on the Rock from where I fell. Remind me, when I fall away it is not from physical things but it is from You. Help me to find myself within You. Once my roots are embedded in You, they will not be uprooted and pushed away. I remain rooted and focused. Joy, peace, love, confidence and courage are all available to me in abundance, if I request them from You, and do not expect to find them in this world. As I seek Your face, I ask for a new heart to be placed within me, which holds new desires. As the songwriter requests, ‘Prepare me to be a sanctuary; pure and holy, tried and true’. I look to You and ask that Your will be done in my life.

Blessed (content, sheltered by God’s promises) are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
Matthew 5:7 (AMP)

Be merciful (responsive, compassionate, tender) just as your (heavenly) Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36 (AMP)

Blessed (gratefully praised and adored) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,who comforts and encourages us in every trouble so that we will be able to comfort and encourage those who are in any kind of trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (AMP)

But God, being (so very) rich in mercy, because of His great and wonderful love with which He loved us, even when we were (spiritually) dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us (spiritually) alive together with Christ (for by His grace—His undeserved favor and mercy—you have been saved from God’s judgment).
Ephesians 24:5 (AMP)

‘…having been deeply rooted (in Him) and now being continually built up in Him and (becoming increasingly more) established in your faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing in it with gratitude
Colossians 2:7 (AMP)

Nevertheless, do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. The Lord does not delay (as though He were unable to act) and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is (extraordinarily) patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance
2 Peter 3:8-9 (AMP)

If we (freely) admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises), and will forgive our sins and cleanse us continually from all unrighteousness (our wrongdoing, everything not in conformity with His will and purpose).
1 John 1:9 (AMP)