😎🐫🎤 Pray without ceasing!  Is it possible?  What does it look like?  Prayer is in your every thought, word, action, and breath…if it’s done with the correct attitude. Yes, it’s not just the act, but the attitude that backs it. And in my humble opinion, 99% of our prayer should be focused on others. Let’s be selfish for God, not ourselves.  Pray unceasingly. Is it possible?…YES!  Bless others and be blessed. 

#Tauren Wells – When We Pray

😎🐫🎤 The Holy Spirit keeps enlightening me with the scripture concerning the travelers on the road to Emmaus, Luke 24: 13-35.  This journey took place on the day of our Lord’s resurrection. He was fresh from the tomb and came upon two of His followers as they were making their way from Jerusalem to Emmaus.   As I’m sure you could imagine, these two were having a pretty rough week, being that the one they believed would set them free was crucified and now His body was missing from the tomb.  Their whole world just seemed wrong.  Jesus promptly set them straight, “…beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.”  When they reached Emmaus, they asked Him to stay with them. Jesus, sitting at table with them, took the bread, gave thanks and broke it. It was then that they realized who they had shared this journey with. This sharing of scripture and breaking of the bread was the first Easter Eucharistic celebration. Still today our Catholic Mass is modeled after this example. We share the Liturgy of the Word followed by the Liturgy of the Eucharist. What an awesome blessing we have received in this gift. Bless others and be blessed. 

#Chris Tomlin – Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)

😎🐫🎤 It is absolutely incredible how the Old Testament foreshadows the New Testament. Looking at and studying how God connected all the dots has given me the opportunity to examine how He has and continues to connect the dots in my life. As we live and grow though those dots, we are often blind to the good that He is allowing in those moments. But give thanks at all times and in all situations. He will bring another dot into your life that will help you move forward and may even shed some light to bring focus on those connecting points.  Take a moment today to reflect on those dots in your life and give glory to God for His infinite wisdom, grace, mercy, love, and friendship. Bless others and be blessed.

#Jeremy Camp – Word of Life

😎🐫🎤 Blanca sings this song with great conviction.  Our church family and community are important, but we need to remember the one true source.  Bless others and be blessed.

#Blanca – Real Love

😎🐫🎤 Well, it’s been a challenging week. We put our 16 year old cat down last Thursday and I had a couple close friends share some pretty heavy things with me over the weekend.  My prayer this week is for healing for those I spoke with and anything you may have weighting you down.  It’s tough climbing up out of a pit, but with the Lord at your side and those that the Lord places by your side, there is healing. A line in this song says “You’ll take all that is wrong and make it right.”  This line speaks to me of the awesomeness of the Lord. Who else can take those hurts, pains, doubts, fears, etc. and use them for good?  We certainly can’t do it on our own. Only with the Lord’s Spirit are we able. Bless others and be blessed. 

#Lauren Daigle – O’ Lord

😎🐫🎤 Do you ever experience such a great joy in your heart that you just want to shout it out and share this joy with those around you? That’s not some man made joy that comes from good times and happy events that we experience. This undeniable joy is what God places upon and within us. There is no other joy in this world that can compare with the joy we receive from being in an intimate relationship with the Lord as Father, Son, and Spirit. Yearn for a relationship with each of them. They all have something different to share and experience with us. We need to know, love, and be in relationship with each of the Three to be in FULL relationship and communion with the One.  Bless others and be blessed

😎🐫🎤 Lately I’ve been reading about wisdom, understanding, and discernment. What a great combination!  But we cannot achieve these things on our own. So many times we seek perfection in our lives, but where we fail is that we seek it on our own, for ourselves. When we quit trying to make things our own and first seek God’s wisdom, knowledge, and discernment, only then can we be perfect in God’s will.  Asking for help doesn’t make you weak. Actually, it makes you very strong.  Bless others and be blessed. 

#Joshua Micha – Who Says?

😎🐫🎤 I’m sure we can all sing along with this one, but if you want to make it more personal, in the chorus, change the word “you” to “me”. Bless others and be blessed.

#Michael Joncas – On Eagle’s Wings

😎🐫🎤 No matter where we are in our relationship with the Lord, it can be better. We can’t allow Satan to trick us into thinking the we’ve arrived or our faith is better than someone else’s.  What will you do today and over the next week to find humility in your relationship with the Lord?  Ask HIM where He wants you and what He wants you doing for Him. I want to share this prayer/song with you this morning. Bless others and be blessed. 

#Micha Tyler – Different

😎🐫🎤 On Sunday our gospel reading was Matthew 14:22-33. Take a moment to read it and soak it in.  The Lord commanded Peter, per Peter’s request, to come to the Lord walking across the water. Peter jumps out and starts heading to the Lord. All was good until Peter took his focus off the Lord and started thinking about how strong the wind was…aka everything in life that Satan uses to distract us from what our one true focus should be. Peter starts to sink. I know we’ve all experienced those sinking feelings. Peter then cries out, “Lord, save me!”  I’m sure we’ve all done that as well. You know, we could make our lives so much better if we would just take the focus off of ourselves and keep focused on the Lord. We have to believe what He is telling us we can do, with and through Him. He won’t let us sink, but we have to be faithful and keep our focus on Him. When I sink, it’s by my own choosing, whether I want to admit it or not.  Bless others and be blessed.

#We Are Messengers – Point to You