Face to Face

I have started Face to Face by Kenneth Boa - this will probably be the 100th time I've used it. If you haven't gone through it, I would highly recommend it as a daily devotional. It's a prayer guide. You read scripture and pray through it, allowing the truth of God's words to sink in as you pray them back to Him.

I am one of those people who felt that I should be praying for everything I could think of. We're told to pray for our nation's leaders, missionaries and oppressed people, the church, our familes, unbelievers, our spouses, ourselves, as well as asking for council and wisdom, growth and humility, vision and discipline!!! The lists go on and on!

I love that the book guides you on a weekly basis to pray for many of those things. One day, it'll give you scripture on God's appointment of the leadership in our government, and then guides us to pray for them. I feel like my mind, heart and soul are slowly being molded more into His likeness, as His opinions, ways and thoughts all slowly start to replace all of my worldly thoughts, actions and desires - the key word being slowly of course. :) I am a firm believer in the power of prayer - believing that God asks us to pray, partially because it's His way of bringing us back to Him. In coming before Him, He changes us through our prayers to be more like Him.

Anyways, it's a great book and I highly recommend it! I know they sell it at the commons, because I had to buy another copy recently.

On another note... I'm not as sore today as I was yesterday, and I plan on trying my first mile either Friday or Tuesday!!!