Consider this mealtime prayer, especially for a family holiday meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Jesus, you said You stand and knock at our door, waiting for us to hear Your voice and open the door—You said You would then come in and eat and drink with us.
So, we hear You knocking and hear Your voice—we open the door—come in, Jesus, eat with us and drink with us. Amen.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If Jesus knocks at our door, one on one . . .
If we hear His voice, one on one . . .
If we open our door, one on one . . .
If Jesus comes in, one on one . . .
If Jesus eats and drinks with us, one on one . . .
. . . Then most surely Jesus will be included in our conversation with others around the table ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything we talk about, definitely about the meal, and anything else in our lives—Jesus wants to be in all of it.*
Tell the others about things Jesus has done in your life lately—tell about things Jesus has done in your heart lately.
Tell about what Jesus has brought you through—or what He is bringing you through.
You don’t have to wait to share, until everything is taken care of.
You may inspire someone else to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In all your ways acknowledge Him<\/span> . . .” <\/p>\n\n\n\n * If we love Jesus, He pays close attention to all of our conversations—so it’s only natural to include Him in what we say. Consider this mealtime prayer, especially for a family holiday meal. “Jesus, you said You stand and knock at our door, waiting for us to hear Your voice and open the door—You said You would then come in and eat and drink with us.So, we hear You knocking and hear Your voice—we open the door—come in, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-family","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5746,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“. . . and [so] He will direct your paths.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Those who loved the Lord spoke often to one another, AND the Lord hearkened (listened closely) and heard them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"