Prayer: Is Jesus in Your Heart?
“If anyone gives you even a cup of water because you belong to the Messiah, I assure you, that person will be rewarded.” (Mark 9:41)
We’ve just finished being thankful for Thanksgiving, but let’s not stop being thankful! We should be thanking God every day for the gift of Jesus.
I can remember the time when (although I knew about Jesus and God) I would go to church on Sunday, leave church on Sunday, go my way for a week and return to church the following week, only to repeat it again. Jesus was in my head, but not in my heart!
As the years went by, I became aware of what it meant to have Jesus in my heart, not just in my head.
Here is one of my earliest stories where I passed off Jesus in my heart.
My boyfriend was at work on a Saturday in June and needed a ride home. I drove the 1939 black Buick my dad bought me so he wouldn’t have to tote me around.
After picking up my boyfriend, unknown to me, a policeman was following me. He pulled me over at an intersection and asked both of us what I had done wrong. Neither one of us knew.
He said he had been following me a long time and assumed that when a boy got in the car that I would make a mistake, but I didn’t. I had done everything right.
Then he explained the “Good Driver Program” and told me I qualified and earned a $5 award and to keep up the good work.
The next day was Father’s Day. I hadn’t gotten my dad a gift because I didn’t have any money. But now I did!
Jesus hadn’t even entered my thoughts at the time, but I was in His thoughts! Since that day I have thanked God many times for it.
Maybe you too can remember a time when you didn’t include Jesus in your life, and can now say thank you.
As we go from Thanksgiving into the Advent season and on to celebrating the birth of our Savior, let’s put Jesus in our hearts all the time!
During your prayer time, be thankful, grateful and humble that you are able to have Jesus in your heart.
This would be a perfect time to join the prayer time on our new day, Wednesdays, at 7:30pm in the Prayer Chapel. As we sit in our circle, we lift up those on our prayer sheet, add those in need of prayer, then we just PRAY!
Is Jesus in your heart?
God bless you and Merry Christmas
Carol Anderson and The Prayer Team
Debi, Gwen, Park, Jan & Cheryl
”Let the words of Christ, in all their richness, live in your hearts and make you wise.” (Colossians 3:16)