Moore for a Monday

The following excerpt and prayers are taken from Praying God's Word by Beth Moore. I pray that you will be reminded that God loves you with an unfailing love! Enjoy.

"A precious friend of mine, Danice Berger, helped me compile many of the scriptures I rewrote into prayer...She was experiencing a very difficult season in which the issues of feeling unloved, insecure, and rejected were almost overwhelming. She knew the answers were right there in God's Word, but sometimes our hearts are in such pain that we are resistant to risk exposure long enough to receive them. Not only is Danice a school teacher, she is a serious student of God's Word. The Holy Spirit prompted me to call her and ask her to research scripture on the topics of feeling unloved and rejected by others...I basically dared her to do it. She took the dare...The results? Danice did her homework...and in the midst of it, she discovered the same unfailing love that had been there all along. This time she lifted the empty cup and let Him pour."

"Lord God, help me to trust in Your unfailing love; cause my heart to rejoice in Your salvation. Help me to sing to You, Lord, for You have been good to me!" (Psalm 13:5,6)

"How I thank You God, that You will heal my waywardness. You love me freely." (Hosea 14:4)

"My Savior, Jesus Christ, Your Word says that greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You have demonstrated the greatest act of friendship in my behalf that exists. I thank You, Lord." (John 15:13)

"You, the Lord my God, are with me, You are mighty to save. You will take great delight in me, You will quiet me with your love, You will rejoice over me with singing!" (Zephaniah 3:17)

"O Lord, because You are my help, I sing in the shadow of Your wings. My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me." (Psalm 63:7,8)

"I call to You, God, and You save me. Even if I cry out in distress evening, morning, and noon, You will never fail to hear my voice." (Psalm 55:16,17)

Happy Thanksgiving!

"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever."

Psalm 136:1-3


For the beauty of the earth, For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth, Over and around us lies:
Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For the warmth of human love, Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth and friends above, For all gentle thoughts and mild:
Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For the Beauty of the Earth, Folliott S. Pierpoint

Dead is Dead!

When John G. Paton (1824-1907) announced his plans to be a missionary in the South Sea Islands, an elderly gentleman named Mr. Dickson voiced his objection, "The cannibals! You'll be eaten by cannibals!" Paton's response? "Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honoring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or worms; and in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer."

Keller on Generosity

"The apostle Peter says, 'To you who believe...[he] is precious' (1 Peter 2:7). The grace of God makes Christ precious to us, so that our possessions, our money, our time have all become eternally and utterly expendable. They used to be crucial to our happiness. They are not so now."

Tim Keller, Gospel in Life

Considering Necessity

"And he said to them, 'O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?' And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."

Luke 24:25-27


It was not necessary for Christ to save us. God owes us nothing. But in choosing to save us, the cross became a necessity! Think about it. God was not obligated to provide the sinner with a means of salvation. It was not a necessity. But in choosing to offer Christ as the atonement for sin, the cross became absolutely necessary. Understanding this makes grace even more amazing and the mercies of God even more breathtaking. May we love him who "put away sin by the sacrifice of himself."

Think About It!

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."

Jim Elliot, missionary to Ecuador, martyred in 1956