Posts by David Shelton
Christian Winter Solstice Prayer
This Christian Winter Solstice Prayer will help you connect with God in new and profound ways. Here are the ways I have celebrated the longest day of the year by making it a milestone of faith. My changed perspective about the Winter Solstice A recent trip to my hometown reminded me why I didn’t like…
Read MoreYou Can Make It
Have you ever hesitated to try something because you don’t think you can make it and succeed? God recently brought home a message to me about times of opportunity where I have turned away. Had I kept my eyes on God I might have succeeded by depending on him. Climbing on a rock formation with…
Read MoreHow to Find God’s Love That Never Ends
Is love really all you need like our culture tells us? I’ve never been a big fan of the Beatles. The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo is not the soundtrack of my childhood. Only of a few of their songs would ever make it into my current playlist. One of the songs that…
Read MorePrayer to Ask Jesus into Your Life
As I contemplated the contents of the articles I have written for this site, I realized that I had left out something important. It was as if the Spirit of God said to me, “You’ve shown them how to pray, but what if they don’t know me?” Dear reader, do you know who Jesus is?…
Read MoreHow to Be Somebody Who Feels Special
Something dawned on me the other day. It was an epiphany that made me stop hard and ponder from the deep recesses of my mind. “Everyone is trying to be someone.” Most everyone attempts to persuade others of the individual’s importance. What do we all want? Notoriety. Acclaim. Fame. Fortune. We want to be someone…
Read MorePrayer to Let Your Life and Thoughts Be Transformed by Christ
This prayer gives us a way to step back and to choose to be transformed to think differently and act differently than the rest of the world because we are followers of Jesus. What made me different when I was growing up “I remember back in the day…” This phrase has started a lot of…
Read MoreTaking a Leap of Faith Prayer: Whether for Rescue or the Need to Move Forward with God’s Plan
This taking a leap of faith prayer will help you take the next sometimes scary step God has for you when you need rescue or when God is asking you to take a bold move in your life. The lesson I learned about taking a leap of faith while climbing on a rock I stood…
Read MorePrayer to Leave the Past Behind So the Past No Longer Defines You
Are you looking for an answer of how to move on from your past and leave the past behind to it no longer defines you? I have been. I’ve been trying to reconcile my past with how God sees me, and what God thinks of me. This past Sunday he showed me the answer to…
Read MoreWhat Is The Secret of Prayer?
Hey! You made it! Glad you are here. I was wondering when you would drop in. So…have a seat, grab a fresh cup of coffee and a notebook. While I have been waiting, much more thinking and processing has gone through my brain about what to say. So…ahem…here we go. Ready? Ok. A sip of…
Read MorePrayer for the Moment When You Seem to Lose Everything like Job in the Bible
How do you pray when everything in your life seems to be taken away from you in a moment in time? I sat listening as my friend Karl told me about such a moment in his life that I call the “Job moment”, after the man in the Bible named Job who was severely tested…
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