Prayer and Purpose

I am reading a book given to me by a wonderful friend of mine who is serving as a missionary in Africa. The book, The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian has a lot of good prayer points for a wife to pray over her husband. I am not done with the book, and I am not writing in an effort to promote it, rather, her prayer points got me thinking again about having a daily prayer focus for my husband, my kids, and other important things in my life. My favorite prayer points come from Monica Andrews at Daily Dwelling . She has created beautiful art to go along with the prayer points, and they would be great to print and put into a prayer journal if you are into that, but she only has twenty points. So, if you do one point a day, in the typical month you would repeat the first ten points on days 21-30 in the month, or maybe do two points a day on those days. Why not instead have thirty prayer points? Omartian has 31 listed prayer points in her book, but I would feel like that 31st po...

In Numbers we find instructions that Yahweh has given Moses to give to Aaron regarding a blessing upon His people: "Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them, Yahweh bless you and keep you; Yahweh make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; Yahweh lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. 'So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.'" Numbers 6:22‭-‬27 ESV Re-read the last sentence. God wanted the priests to mark His people as His. I grew up hearing this every Sunday as our benediction, and it is fitting because, though I am not an Israelite, I am chosen by God, adopted into His family. Paul writes in his letter to the Galatians, "for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither sla...