Prayer - Grace - Full Humility

 Lord, I'm sorry for all the attitudes of mind and heart that do not reflect You and Yours.  Yours is a righteous and holy one, one that is full of meekness and humility.  Show me the better way.

There are wrong attitudes of (name your own), I confess them here and now.  I seek Your merciful forgiveness and gratefully thank You for it.  Through Your Holy Spirit's intervention help me to put on an attitude like Yours and to grow grace - fully more humble.

O Lord, show me the way.  In this way I can act more justly and love mercy as You do, and more consistantly for a more serious step-by-step walk with You.

Make me strong in faith - like Abraham; meek like Moses; strong in You similar to the strength Samson had but to use the strength to walk aright in Your sight.  Make me as courageous as Esther that despite fear, I'd still act justly and for the good and benefit of others.  I lack wisdom, Lord.  Make me wiser than Solomon and never let me forget from Whom the wisdom has come.  May I learn deep humility, and thus imitate Yours, Lord Jesus.

All this I ask in Your name.  Amen.

                                                 ~  ERC  September 2026  ~

Based on Proverbs 22:4 ESV and Micah 6:8 NKJV.

Sing, He Walked in Humility, along with Christian Contempary Eternal Worship Music.

The Spirit of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2)

 

Do you ever need the counsel from the One who has the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, counsel, power, knowledge and can help instill the fear of the Lord?

Sounds like a mighty force.  The counsel sounds like it would be true and steady.  It sounds like we would learn to speak words of wisdom from this Spirit, the Spirit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, otherwise known as the Holy Spirit.

May we often go to Him and seek His counsel.  We're sure to get the best.

And as we do so, let's remember to pray for the peace of Christ to guide and guard our hearts, to bring peace to this chaotic world of wars, earthquakes and other natural and/or manmade distasters; peace to our church and our own individual respective family.

He is the Great I AM!

Go to the Spirit of the Lord today.

Love in Him ...

                                                  ~  ERC  September 2026  ~

Based on Isaiah 11:2 ESV.

Sing, Rest On Us, along with Elohim Songs.

You Are Invited

 When we pray for our nation, or an adopted one, do we pray that

 "the King of Glory may come in?"  

Do we invite Him?

Pause now to pray for your nation.  Ask for our King of Glory to come in, He who is the Lord of Hosts.

He is our powerful, Almighty Father and God.  And in and through the name of Jesus, there can and will be overwhelming victory in our hearts and in the heart of our nation, for all the people of the nation.  Pray for our King of Glory to be invited into every single last heart from oldest to youngest.

O Lord God, my King of Glory, come and reign in our hearts.  We invite You to come into this nation we live in and the ones we came from and have lived in.

May Your hand work mightily and strongly.  Bring Your righteousness and salvation to those who seek You and who seek Your face, O Father God Almighty.  May we be a generation who chooses You!

May we have clean hands and pure hearts as we humbly bow to You our great and most high King of Heaven.  Establish Yourself in us.   There's a welcome here for You our Lord and King of Glory.  Amen.

                                        ~  ERC September 2026  ~

Based on Psalm 24:1-10 ESV.

Sing, Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates along with Handell's Messiah.

More Fruitful Multiplying Needed (2 Peter 3:18 and 1 John 2:15-17)

 Do you like fruit?  How about fruit like apples, oranges, peaches, plums or even papaya, mangosteens, and dragon fruit?  These are ones I like.

How about 'people fruit'?  Do you like them?  That is, answering God's command to be fruitful and multiply.

When we can bring others to Christ, we will have "people fruit."  May we garner the humility and live according to the Holy Spirit rather than according to our own flesh and desire.

As we draw closer to the Lord and really get to know Him as Friend as well as Savior, we will be more like Him.   As His presence leads and guides us, we will be able to indeed bring many sons and daughters to Christ and into God's kingdom.

May we continue to be fruitfully multiplying.  It's needed.  This fruit will abide forever.  This is worthwhile.

Father God, help us.  We need You and Your strength.  Give us the courage to choose to live and speak well for You.  May our humility be evident to all.  I ask in Jesus' name.  Amen.

                                                    ~  ERC  September 2026  ~

Based on 2 Peter 3:18 and 1 John 2:15-17 ESV.

Sing, Fishers of Men, along with Kid's worship Song, Follow Jesus.

Lord's Day Devotion - Willingness of Humility

 

If we believe that Jesus came to earth with good intentions towards mankind, and if we have accepted His gift of salvation, is it too much to ask for His help?  Is it too much to humble ourselves and submit to His wisdom and grace?

And when He directs us to His word, and/or His people, is it too much to have the willingness to ask for help from those people?  Conversely, is it too much to be the giver of the help?

When our spirits are covered with The Holy Spirit of humility and navigate life and relationships with others from this standpoint and perspective, wouldn't we honor the one most important relationship; that is, the relationship with our Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ our Lord?

Whatever life throws at us, we will be able to endure and persevere and have wisdom and even grace, to see through the fog, fear, helplessness and more, as we willingly humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God (see 1 Peter 5:6).

Almighty Heavenly Father, I come to You on bended knees and bowed heart, realizing You are my ultimate Helper.  It's from You I can listen for Your soft and gentle voice of guidance.  Thank You too, for godly men and women, my brothers and sisters-in-Christ, who also willingly listen to You and from whom I can also find help.  If it is our turn to be the giver, give us the willingness of humility to offer the help and follow through with it too.  Grow a humble spirit within me in ever-increasing measure until Jesus comes to call all Your children 'Home' to be with You forever.

Thank You ever so much for sending Jesus with the good intention and good will of saving Your created human beings from their sins.

"Joyful, joyful we adore You, God of glory, Lord of love."*

In Jesus' name we give You our praise as we partake of the broken bread and drink from the cup of wine this Lord's Day, in remembrance of Your willing, humble sacrifice for us, which had been motivated by Your love for us.  Thank You, amen.

                                              ~  ERC  October 2026  ~

Based on 1 Peter 2:13 and Matthew 11:28.

*Sing, Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, along with Reawaken Hymns.

More Humility Needed (2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

 

"If My people ... humble themselves and pray ... then I will hear from heaven ..."               (2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV).

More humility is needed.  'If' is the operative word.  It depends on 'me' - whether I bother to humble myself or not.  Whether I bother to acknowledge my weaknesses, limitations and need of dependance upon my heavenly Father, or not.  If I humble myself, then I will pray.  He will hear us.

As I pray and as others join in, we are participating in the Holy Spirit.  We are then able to move in the spiritual realm through our faith in Jesus.

We followers of Jesus Christ are then showing expressions of humility.  Our varying degrees of pride; arrogance and independance from God and His people will all be distilled into this act of humility:  praying always to God as an individual and praying collectively with members of His church.

A lot had to happen in our hearts to get to that point - not as a route ritual or duty, but in sincerity and truth - really praying.

More of this type of humilty is needed.

Bye for now ...

                                            ~  ERC  September 2026  ~

Based on 2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV and Philippians 2:1 & 2 ESV/NIV.

Sing If My People Pray, along with Jimmy Owens and Tallowood Baptist Church.

Book Review - Scarlet Shadows - By Jo Szewczyk - Publication Date: 15 October 2026

Serious issues in this adult crime thriller, particularly those dealing with organ transplant donations to sick children, and a person dealing with blindness, pleased me.  In my opinion, it put substance into the narrative.

There was some humor and a great deal of kicking, punching and attacking in line with Taekwondo.  People who know this martial art should be able to relate well, I'm assuming.

However, I felt the story direction swung like an out-of-control pendulum and often I could not connect the characters, nor their actions.  I found it confusing rather than sparking my curiosity regarding the mystery.

The book is tagged as an "adult crime thriller" but wonder if it would appeal more to high school students.  If this were the case, then more of the to-in and fro-ing action may have been better understood as being relating to that niche of audience.

                                               ~  Eunice C.,  Reviewer/Blogger  ~

                                                            October 2026

Disclaimer:  This is my honest opinion based on the complimentary review copy sent to me by NetGalley and the publisher.

Read review on Goodreads.