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TITLE: Minutes in Prayer | Previous Challenge Entry
By Jennifer Hill
03/10/11
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Dear Father God, I spent 1,440 minutes yesterday breathing in the air you created. I watched the tree branches sway in the wind that you control. I watched my children play ball in the back yard, what wonderful blessings you have made. I kissed my husband when he got home from work and held him close. His love is a gift only you could give. You give and create in my life too much for me to even realize, thank you God for caring so much. How much do you work out for me and still I go on unaware?

How many of my minutes are spent in pain because of my choices? Yet I have the gall to blame you for my consequences. Forgive me God for when I take my disappointments out on you. Forgive me for not remembering the truth that you are and the promises of your word. Forgive me for all the times I misplace my hope. Forgive me for spending my minutes on such wasteful, meaningless things. Help me to see your time table for my life. To see the people, places and projects you would want me to not just fit in my day, but make my day.

I know you are always by my side, yet at times I find myself still searching as though you’re not enough. How foolish of me to forget all that you’ve done. The chasm you closed to be with me. May I never forget the cost you paid for me to have grace eternal and always remember the joy of my salvation. Someday, because I trust in you, I’ll walk in heaven, run into your arms, sing your praises and glorify your name. Where time will cease, no more minutes to spend here, your new kingdom will reign on high.

Thank you for being the God you are, patient, loving and always present: before my minutes ever began, you are here now as I spend them and there tomorrow when my minutes here on earth are no more. Let me delight in your ways and cultivate faithfulness. Lead my heart to chase after yours, my soul to bask in your light, my mind to seek your will, and my strength to be used to bring you glory each minute of my day. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

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