SHEPHERD'S WALK at Sweetbriar: August 2009

Sunday, August 30, 2009

A DOUBLE PORTION of STRENGTH

Please be in prayer for these dear friends this day.

* Bella-Mella @ http://bellamella-melanie.blogspot.com/

needs a miracle for her son, Andrew.

* Cari @ http://www.undomestic.blogspot.com/

is in her final days awaiting her Savior's return...

* Alleluiahbelle @ http://www.alleluiabelle.blogspot.com/

needs a miracle and much prayer for her husband Ron.

* A little girl named Brena [whose favorite color is GREEN] - needs your prayers that she will not

"lose her faith" [her own words] or her hope in our great God. May God continue to show her His faithfulness!

Please lift each of these precious ones before the Throne of GRACE this day!

Father------

Would You comfort those who care for these loved ones? Would You grant mercy and grace to those who need a miracle - not to know a miracle - but to know YOU deeper? Would You come quickly to those who are on the threshold of heaven's door and take hold of the hand that awaits Your touch? Would You sustain all those who are weary and laiden and give them REST and peace and JOY in Your Presence?

We ask humbly, Father, in the Name above all Names,

JESUS CHRIST!

Amen and Amen!

Sunday, August 9, 2009

CALL on the NAME of the LORD

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PRAYER

"The day you call on the Name of the LORD,

you will be set free."

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Genesis 4:26

Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.

At that time men began to call on the name of the LORD.

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Psalm 116:13,17

13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.

17 I will sacrifice a thank offering to you and call on the name of the LORD.

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Zephaniah 3:9

"Then will I purify the lips of the peoples, that all of them may call on the Name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

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Are you hurting? In trouble? Distressed? Sorrowful? In pain? Lacking insight? Dry?

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Will you - TODAY -

CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD - JESUS CHRIST

and trust Him with your life, your problems, your family, your finances, your circumstances, your commitments?

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Lord Jesus---

We lift our hands and hearts to You this day and we call upon Your Name!

The Name above every Name!

The matchless Name of Jesus!

Hear our praise for Who You Are.

We confess our sin and our inability to love You apart from Your grace and Your forgiveness through the blood of Jesus Christ.

We offer our thanks to You in advance for what You are about to do.

Come and answer us when we pray our supplication and petition before You.

For YOU ALONE ARE GOD!

Meet us right now in this place and answer us as we call!

In Jesus' Name,

Amen and Amen!

THE PRAYER WALK and SANCTUARY CIRCLE

What is SHEPHERD’S WALK, you ask?

In the summer of 2008 the Lord placed upon my heart a tiny seed to re-cut the trails in the woods here at Sweetbriar Farm. A Treehouse [built around 1980-81] marks the entrance to the path.

My only thought was just to have a place to go outside on a nice day and "Be still before the Lord". Through His Spirit’s leading the Lord showed me that He had many more plans for the trails. In October of 2008 the paving was completed and God named the Prayer Path – SHEPHERD’S WALK.

God has shared with me that anyone who walks the path with a sincere heart – He will meet in the Sanctuary Circle – heart to HEART!

There are now 4 Prayer Stations with benches along the path. At each station are laminated Scriptures and Prayer Cards to read, ponder, and meditate upon. So for now – as I allow God to do His work in this place, I simply ask, "What next, LORD?" This entire path of forming SHEPHERD'S WALK has been a special journey.

The 4 stations now represent the acrostic ACTS

ADORATION
CONFESSION
THANKSGIVING
SUPPLICATION

PRAYER is the focus.
May God do all that He intends to do through the prayers of His people and all those from all walks of life and perhaps from every tribe and tongue who come to pray here.

The Prayer Path also stemmed from something I said to the LORD last [2008] summer. I asked the Lord this: "What offering can I bring You, Lord, to say 'thank You' for holding my life in Your Hands?" It wasn't long after that - He showed me SHEPHERD'S WALK - when He actually named it that.

I was reading a book at the time [that someone else gave me as a gift] called: A Shepherd Looks At Psalm 23 by Phillip Keller. It was such a reminder of the 3 sheep that I raised here at Sweetbriar [Suzie, Cotton and Lace] who have long passed. It was a reminder that "all we like sheep have gone astray, each to his own way..." Yet the GOOD SHEPHERD will stop at nothing to find the one who is lost - to give His own life to save that very one!

Psalm 20:1-6
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
1 May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the Name of the God of Jacob protect you.
2 May He send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
3 May He remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings. Selah
4 May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
5 We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the Name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.
6 Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His Right Hand.

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Be sure to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to read the Scripture that began SHEPHERD'S WALK.

The LORD used a book called:
A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23
by Philip Keller, to begin the journey for the prayer path. It is amazing to me that God prepared me as a 'shepherdess' - even if it was only because I am such an animal lover. I even learned how to spin their wool. God knew that the day would come when He would teach me His ways through the knowledge of owning sheep. I fed them and cared for them and they knew me.

God feeds me daily from His Word. He cares for me and does what is best for me - and I know Him. And He knows me by name because "His sheep am I".

The 23rd PSALM

Psalm 23 [KJV]
1 The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His Name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

On The OAK Tree at the Entrance to the Sanctuary Circle

Isaiah 61:1-4 [NIV]
The Year of the LORD's Favor
1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on Me [Christ], because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of His splendor. [that's us]
4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.

SHEPHERD'S WALK at Sweetbriar

Sunday, August 30, 2009

A DOUBLE PORTION of STRENGTH

Sunday, August 9, 2009

CALL on the NAME of the LORD

Join the Birds Here and Take a Stroll on THE PRAYER PATH

My Heart's Desire

PRAYER PARTNER'S for SHEPHERD'S WALK

THE PRAYER WALK and SANCTUARY CIRCLE

WALK ALONG THE PRAYER PATH

TRUTHSHARER

PRAYER for ISRAEL

PRAYER BUTTON for ELAINE

Please Pray for KRISHANA

Please Pray for John

Prayer for Alleluiabelle's Husband

Praise God -- Doug came to Christ just days before his death!

ANDREW in Heaven with JESUS - December 15th 2009

In Memory of Louie 1997-2008

*** WILL YOU PRAY? *

An Alternative to Abortion

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WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL

The 23rd PSALM

On The OAK Tree at the Entrance to the Sanctuary Circle

SHEPHERD'S WALK at Sweetbriar

Sunday, August 30, 2009

A DOUBLE PORTION of STRENGTH

Sunday, August 9, 2009

CALL on the NAME of the LORD

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Join the Birds Here and Take a Stroll on THE PRAYER PATH

My Heart's Desire

PRAYER PARTNER'S for SHEPHERD'S WALK

THE PRAYER WALK and SANCTUARY CIRCLE

WALK ALONG THE PRAYER PATH

TRUTHSHARER

PRAYER for ISRAEL

PRAYER BUTTON for ELAINE

Please Pray for KRISHANA

Please Pray for John

Prayer for Alleluiabelle's Husband

Praise God -- Doug came to Christ just days before his death!

ANDREW in Heaven with JESUS - December 15th 2009

In Memory of Louie 1997-2008

********* WILL YOU PRAY? *******

An Alternative to Abortion

From: Not Mine But God's Story = ******* HOPE and HEALING ******* For Abortion Recovery

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Blog Archive

WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL

The 23rd PSALM

On The OAK Tree at the Entrance to the Sanctuary Circle

*** WILL YOU PRAY? *

From: Not Mine But God's Story = * HOPE and HEALING * For Abortion Recovery