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Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we continue our Advent 2020 prayers. Today we are reading out of Exodus 15:2 which says "The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him." "This verse is beautiful, feels like a poem or a song you’d write for the love of our life and oddly it’s exactly what it is. It comes from the song of Moses and Miriam at the beginning of exodus. We’ve been praying and preparing for C...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we continue with our Advent 2020 prayers. Today we are reading out of John 6:35 which says "Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty." "This verse immediately got me thinking about all the bread I love. If you didn’t know, I love to bake and baking bread has quickly grown to be one of my favorite things to make. It’s always been my favorite thing to eat. I mean who doesn’...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we continue our Advent 2020 series of prayers. Today we are reading out of John 1:5 which says "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." "This verse solidifies why he came. God said it wasn’t going to be easy. He said that there will be dark times, but that our faith will be stronger. This verse says the light shines in the darkness. And the darkness has not overcome it. Jesus wins. So as you go about your day today, you might be str...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we continue our Advent 2020 prayers. Today we are reading out of Mark 16:15 which says "He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." "Meaning every person you come into contact today, tomorrow, and on Sunday, may you look at them, speak to them, help them, as if it was Jesus himself speaking. We are to preach the gospel and that means we are to live the gospel. Yesterday we talked about how good God is, and how his sacrifice is wha...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we continue our prayers for Advent 2020. Today we are reading out of Isaiah 1:18 which says "“Come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool." "Notice how it says “Come now, let us settle the matter” almost like let’s just say this one time for all. Though our sins are like scarlet. Pause - that essentially says, there is no denying that we...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we continue our Advent 2020 prayers. Today we are reading out of Matthew 5:14-16 which says "14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." "In this verse, Jesus is talking. He...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we continue to pray over our Advent 2020 season. Today is the 7th prayer. We are reading out of Romans 15:13 which says "I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit." "This verse is beautiful. It never gets old, I know we prayed over this verse a few months ago, but every time you read it, and every time I read it, we can go ...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we kick off week 2 of Advent. Today is our 6th prayer and we are reading out of Matthew 2:10 which says "When they saw the star, they were overjoyed." "Imagine hundreds of years. Generation after generation. Living by the law. Waiting for God to come, and then one night a star appears. When the people saw the star, they were overjoyed. They knew their king had come. He was a baby. He was 33 years away from sacrificing His life, but they were still over joyed. I am ...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we continue to pray together during this Advent season. Today is our 5th Advent prayer and we are reading out of Psalm 34:8 which says "Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him." "Taste and see that the Lord is good. We are blessed friends. We are blessed because everyday we find time to get alone with Him. Through prayer on our own time, worshiping in the car, or turning into this podcast. There are a million ways you can get ...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we pray over Advent Day 2 - 2020. Today we will be reading out of 1 Peter 2:24 which says "“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed." "We get to shout VICTORY when we look at strongholds and obstacles. We get to look at the face of whatever is holding us, hurting us, stumping our growth and we can declare that God already won the battle. All we need to do is beli...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we start ADVENT 2020. Today we are reading out of Romans 5:8 which says "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." "Just for five minutes a day let’s forget about the chaos that comes with the mall in this season, and let’s remember his never ending love. The Bible repeats how much he loves us, so many times. Today’s verse reminds us that while we were still sinners Christ died of us. Sinner gets such a tain...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Colossians 3:17 which says "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." "Your volunteer work, your giving statements, the people you serve, you don’t do that for the glory of Instagram, you do that for the Glory of God. I pray we check our actions before we post and before we gloat to others. Are we after likes, or awareness for the organization? The same action ...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Thessaloninas 5:18 "18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." "Today is Thanksgiving here in the states and it’s a beautiful holiday where families get together to give thanks for everything. What started as a tradition to give thanks for the land, became much more than that. Now we give thanks for our circumstances, our lives, our families. But it comes with a lot of cooking cleaning and prepping and somet...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Psalm 7:17 which says "I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High." "Today’s verse. Today’s prayer, everything about today I want it to be about Jesus and his goodness. I will sing His praises, in my life and in yours. I don’t know what you are walking. You could be sick, or you could be on the hippest point of a mountain top celebrating victory. You could have lost loved one...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Philippians 2:13 which says "For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." "Well let’s start out with the fact that he does reside within us. So we know he works through us. Like he uses us to brighten others days. He uses us to build his church. He uses us to serve our community. But this verse isn’t address the work that he does through us. It’s addressing the work that he does in us. It says God works in you, bo...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read Proverbs 16:7 which says "When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him." "My prayer for us all, my prayer for you, is that when you walk into a room, everyone knows you carry the presence of God. The way you carry yourself, the words you speak, your action and dreams should all align with the word of God. Our ways should always please the Lord, but we tend to be rocky in our habits. We tend to be selfish and we don’t...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Romans 12:12 which says "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" "Perspective is what changes everything and this verse is one that we can hold onto at any given season. Joyful in hope. Experience only the joy Jesus can bring. The indescribable peace that he brings. Patient in affliction. Even in the hardest seasons we must have the patience to see Gods work at large. He is orchestrating something you cannot even fathom. But a...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Jeremiah 29:12 which says "Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you." "We all tend to do this. We like to have control over everything, every situation, every choice, every season and we don’t. God has control and it’s up to us to just give it to Him. The creator of the universe, the man who has seen the start and the end, the one who knows the amount of hairs on my head. The light of the world. The prince of peace. ...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of James 1:17 which says "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." "I would imagine it would truly hurt the person who gave it to you. So imagine how God feels when you toss your gifts to the side. When we find now real use for them. God didn’t make you by mistake. He gave you everything you need to fulfill your destiny and your time here on eart...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Mark 11:25 which says "And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins." "In today’s era, cancel culture has crept its way into every conversation. Celebrities are wiped off the face of the earth, CEO’s companies can crumble over night. Director’s are removed from their films. This behavior has crept its way into our very families. One of my favorite take aways fro...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Proverbs 15:18 which says: Hot tempers cause arguments, but patience brings peace. "I like this little nugget of wisdom. It really brings a sense of perspective to the everyday. We know this to be true. We know when we are fighting our friends and family and our tempers get out of control, we are bound to start arguments that can leave both parties offended for some time. I just wanted to remind you today that patience brings peace. So have some pat...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of 3 John 1:2 which says "Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul." "Imagine if our conversations all started with that verse. I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. Imagine if you woke up and said that prayer over those you can’t stand. Imagine if you looked at your government officials, those you voted for and thos...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of James 1:23-24 which says "23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like." "We all struggle with new habits. I know. I am one of you. We are all human and we have our ways. It’s impossible for me to work out every single day, it’s just not a habit of mine. So why is applying new habits so hard for us?...

Join me, Alison Elizabeth as we read out of Matthew 26:41 and Matthew 4:1-7 "“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” "...I love this story. I love the picture this paints. I love Jesus’ clap backs. But something else really stood out to me. The enemy repeated scripture. Take notice of that, the enemy knows the word of God and he flipped the script and tempted Jesus with the very words we repeat and meditate on daily. Look out f...