Prayer to Make my Own---and quotes

Something that I'm realizing now is how amazing God works. When I'm down and I don't want to read or pray, then I do and God shows me what I need to see and encourages me so much. Another thing that amazes me: how often I keep doing that, how often I just don't want to read or pray because I don't feel like it or I'm too tired. Yet God has proven Himself to me so many times....and yet I still continue to doubt how He works. Though He has proven Himself faithful...so advice.....just read your Bible and pray, no matter how tired or busy you are. Believe me, its worth it.




"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
WHere there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

Oh Divine Master, grant that I may so
Much seek to be console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
-St. Francis of Assisi

"During the last war we were taught that, in order to obtain our objective, we had to be willing to be expendable... We know that there is only one anwer when our country demands that we share in the price of freedom - yet when the Lord Jesus asks us to pay the price for world evangeliszation, we often answer without a word. We cannot go. We say it costs too much... Missionaries constantly face expendability.
-Nate Saint, A Missionary Martyred in the Ecuadorian Jungle in 1956

"We have learned that suffering is not the worst thing in the world - disobedience to God is the worst."
- A Veitnamese Christian Pastor Imprisoned fo his faith