“Can You Spare a Crumb?”

Reading:

I need to be a better father in many regards.

This exposes one of the weak areas in my parenting:

“For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet” (Mark 7:25).

To care deeply for each need of each of my children.

To go to Jesus for help.

To press Jesus for help.

Persistently.

In faith.

from Mark 7:26

Up Before God

Reading:
Revelation 8:1-5

That’s where I want my prayers to go.

Like this:

“And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand” (4).

I’m thankful God hears my prayers.

Even when they surely aren’t pleasant, at least by my standards.

So let me be more careful in my praying, that I may please God by them.

from Revelation 8:3