Nourish Your Heart

• A faith-mark is the place
• Where God leaves His love-trace
• Where God teaches us
• His Word to trust.
• Our lives He sweetens
• And our faith He strengthens
• Faith is the indelible mark
• Of God’s presence in a rainbow-arc
• Holy, Father, come place in me
• Your faith- mark for all to see.

Matthew 17:20 — Faith as a grain of mustard seed…

Every day Lord, I turn to you. You are holy. And your love is new every morning. You can create pure thoughts in me. You can create faithfulness in me. You give me the strength to be faithful.

You have invited me to be faithful. You have shown me which way to turn. You have guided me. You have taken my hand to lead me back to you and your ways. You have given me your love and I will love you forever.

You give me peace and you make me holy. You keep me blameless. You do all this for me because you are faithful.

Psalm 51:10 Create pure thoughts in me and make me faithful again.

i Corinthians 1:9 God will do this, for he is faithful to do what he says, and he has invited you into partnership with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I Thessalonians 5: 23-24 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.

From a prayer — “the next thing…”

What do I do, dear Lord To show my love for you? How can I witness your love How can I make my life anew?

Then a small voice whispers Deep within my heart Do the next thing, my child Do the next thing, it’s a start.

Each morning when I arise My heart to Him I bring When I ask what to do, He whispers, Child, do the next thing.

The tasks I see before me Are not the grand things I long for But being faithful in The next thing — with Him, I’ll soar!