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SUMites,

Lynn Donovan here. I am sitting in my living room on Sunday afternoon on November 1. Today I served on the prayer team at church. I prayed for a young woman who came forward to ask for prayer for her unsaved family members. She is probably 25 years old and as I prayed, tears streamed down her face.

She is worried about her brothers and sisters, mom and dad eternal salvation. Her love and concern for her family deeply touched my heart.

God always blows my mind. He sends individuals to me for prayer who need exactly what I’ve lived.

All of us live in the space of worrying and praying for our unsaved family members.

And, boy howdy, DID know how to pray with her. So, I’m going to share what I had her pray aloud. So, my friends, pray the following aloud and with belief.

Father, I claim (insert name(s)) for the Kingdom of God. I declare my (family member) will encounter and experience the love of Jesus. Father, reveal yourself to them and bless them. In Jesus mighty name. AMEN

If you want me to pray this aloud over your family member(s), leave their first name and an AMEN in the comments.

My friends, it’s time our family discovered what we know. God is real. The Bible is dependable and Jesus saves, redeems and heals. AMEN

I love you. Have a THANKFUL week. Blessings and hugs, Lynn

SUMites, Lynn here.

Let’s be intentional about bringing faith into our homes over the next two months. I’ve shared some of my own faith moments, including the Tablecloth of Thanks. If you’re new here, watch for that post next week.

Would you take a few minutes to share how you bring faith into your unequally yoked home at Thanksgiving?

I’ll choose a few of your ideas to share here with everyone. Please share—we need the hope and inspiration your ideas can bring. I love you. Lynn

Ann here!

SUMites, today I have a question for you:

What does Heaven’s record say about what you’ve walked through in your spiritually mismatched marriage?

There are places in the Bible where it says there are records in heaven for the things we enact on earth.

For example, God listens to the words, stories, and conversations that believers share with each other when they talk about him. And those things get recorded.

“Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.” (Malachi 3:16, KJV)

Isn’t that an amazing thought! Every time you have a chat with another believer about God and the things he has done in your life, your faithfulness is recorded.

God also records the tears we have shed:

“Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?” (Psalm 56:8, KJV)

No tears are shed in vain.

God also has books that will be opened once we are resurrected, telling of our lives — our faith, our deeds, our choices to believe, and the fact that our names are written in the book of life (Revelation 20:12-15).

All of this means that in Heaven there is serious record keeping going on, as we potter through our lives — the mundane parts and the less mundane parts.

When we look at our SUM lives, then, we can say to ourselves: “Ok, on earth, my spouse does not believe. But what is Heaven recording about all this?”

Heaven records it:

Every single time you choose to pray

Every single time you choose hope

Every single time you choose love

Every single time you look at your marriage and think of God’s heart and will for it

Keep going SUMites!

Love

Ann

My Friends,

This week, I was speaking to my friend and mentor, Pam Farrel. For those of you who may not know Pam, she and her husband, Bill, wrote the book Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti. They are well-known Christian speakers and have written 60 books together. I’m so blessed that Pam took me under her wing.

She shared a daily practice that she follows, and I’ve adopted it. Today, I’m sharing it with you in the hope that you will adopt it as well.

Every day at 3:20 p.m., Pam has an alarm set on her phone. Upon hearing the alarm, she prays Ephesians 3:20 for someone.

Sometimes, she prays it over a family member. Sometimes, she prays it over the last person she spoke to. Sometimes, she prays it over her ministry team or whoever the Lord places upon her heart. And she has witnessed the results of her prayers in the heavens. It’s cool.

So, right now, take out your phone. Set an alarm or a calendar event for every day at 3:20 p.m. to pray this over someone on your heart:

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.—Ephesians 3:20

Lord Jesus, today, bring into the life of the person reading this Your exceedingly abundant goodness, above all that they can ask or think, according to the power that works within us as Your disciples. AMEN, Jesus. AMEN!!!

I love you, SUMites. Go and pray to break the chains and bring freedom to the captives. Hallelujah.

Hello SUMmites! This is Barb Twigg with another What I Know For Sure. Blessings over you!