July Prayers 2016

Click for this month's music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOrCJgzrdQg

The magic is in you!

The power of love, the power to heal and the power to dream!!
The power in you can break every chain!
The power in you can help others to achieve their dreams!

There is power in every heart to break every chain. That is the power of love! It brings healing, forgiveness and unity. It breaks every chain of fear, hatred and ignorance. There is power in every dream. God put a dream or a message in every heart that was meant to guide and give purpose to the dreamer and bring sight and freedom to others in this world. If your dream is from God it will be based on love. It will bring people together in unity and will benefit all!

We are not overcome by evil. We overcome evil by doing good!

What we are praying for:

God, help us, our community, our neighbours and our family to recognize our strengths and talents that we are to share. Help us to understand that you love us and want to empower us to fulfill our dreams. God, grant us the courage to ask for your help and allow you to fill us with your love and work in us and through us for the benefit of all those around us.

Pray for Caribana 2016 in Toronto!

Click here for pics of The Toronto Caribbean Carnival Parade 2016:

http://themagic-james.blogspot.ca/2016_07_01_archive.html 

Pray for the Beaches Jazz Festival
Click here to see their site:  http://beachesjazz.com/

Click here for pics of Pride 2016:

http://themagic-james.blogspot.ca/2016_06_01_archive.html

Encouraging sites on achieving your dreams!

 Click here for 3 Proven ways to make your biggest dreams come true:
 http://www.inc.com/peter-economy/3-proven-ways-to-make-your-biggest-dreams-come-true.html

How to make your dreams come true from Lifehack, click here:

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-to-make-dreams-come-true.html 

For 10 easy steps with more everyday language from Huffington Post Click here:
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katie-morton/10-easy-steps-to-making-y_b_6014030.html

  

Break free from the mold that society says you have to be and be you!









 Encouragements from scriptures:

Ephesians 3: 16-19, 6: 10-18. God's Holy Spirit strengthens you with inner strength.

2 Corinthians 3: 17. Where God's Spirit is, there is freedom!

Romans 8: 1-2. The life guided by God's Spirit is free from the law of sin and death.

Mark 16: 17-18. Those who believe shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

Romans 12: 21. We overcome evil by doing good.

Matthew 25: 35-40. Doing good to others is as doing good to God.

John 15: 12. Love each other as God loves you!

Colossians 3: 11-17. Love binds us together in perfect harmony!

Give yourself permission to dream!

Base your vision and actions on love!

Allow God's love to fill your heart and guide you!

Then your life will be fulfilled!

 May all your dreams come true!

 Thank you for joining us, don't forget your own quiet times to hear and dream!!

  
Scroll for June prayers, photos and more!

God is with us every day, every moment in everything we do, not to judge, but like a loving parent interested in seeing you get the best outa life!

The Holy Spirit enables us to love, forgive and be kind to others like our creator!

God's love in your heart makes the difference!

Prayers On Line, June 2016

         


We's all neighbours, we's all family!

So, .... You can sit with us!! And you can pray with us!!  

You are accepted here! You are loved, your life does count, you belong!

After all, isn't that why we are here? To grow together, to learn from each other and to help each other?! 

 
What we are praying for:

Pray that we recognize that we are all one family on this planet!

Photo from usnews.com

Pray that we accept our differences and see the value in others' talents.

Photo: Planet Earth by RoadToVictory

For a message from space click here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of6-Jm5mIMI

Pray for the LGBTQ Community and the Pride Festival that takes place this month.

Pray that people see the love of God in this community.
Pray for Orlando, victims, families and the community.
For prayers and pics of the Toronto vigil click here: http://www.mcctoronto.com/sc/june-prayers 

Photo by James Glaab

For pics of Pride 2015, click here: http://themagic-james.blogspot.ca/2015_07_01_archive.html

For pics of Pride 2016, click here: http://themagic-james.blogspot.ca/2016_06_01_archive.html

Pray for your neighbourhood!
Check out pics of GTA neighbourhoods: http://themagic-james.blogspot.ca/2016_05_01_archive.html

Photo from urbantoronto.ca

Pray for and support the associations who are working hard to make planet Earth a better place! 

Such as: Plan International, Village of Hope, Amnesty,...

Check out their links at the end of this blog!

Encouragements from scriptures: 

Romans 8: 15-16. The Holy Spirit tells us deep in our hearts that we are children of God.

John 17: 23. Jesus prayed that we all would be one, that God being in him and he in us, that we would be made perfect as one, 
so that the world would know that God loves us all as much as His own children! 

Galatians 4: 5-7. God sent the Spirit of Christ into our hearts so we could call on God as though we were God's own children!

Galatians 3: 26-29. We are all children of God through faith. There is now no difference in social status, religion, race, gender or sexual orientation. Christ has broken down the walls between us and made us one with God!

Click here get more about Street Church at MCCT's website: http://www.mcctoronto.com/prayer-walks

Remember that it is God's Spirit in us that unites us and makes all this a reality! Let the Love of God change you and fill you with peace!

It's the love of God in your heart that makes you part of the family!
 

Thank you for joining with us to pray for the GTA!

  


 

Links to organizations helping on the planet:

Remember to pray for and support:

Helping girls all over the world get an education.

http://plancanada.ca/because-i-am-a-girl

Justice around the world!
http://www.amnesty.ca/

Village of Love
Big hearted women like Josephine, living in Kibera slum, despite their poverty, take in orphaned children, but they can’t provide even the basic necessities. Village of Love gives them micro-loans so they can feed their children through their own enterprise and we give some help with school fees. We’ve kept 150 children in school now over 5 years, resulting in 3 reaching university!
http://www.villageoflovecanada.org/

Helping people in Toronto who are living with aids.
http://www.pwatoronto.org/

Doctors Without Borders

http://www.msf.ca/

Photo by Julie Remy

Pride 2016 is coming! Scroll for May Prayers.

Click here to see Pride Prayer Walk 2015

Prayers for May

    

The magic is in you!

The sunshine and the rain have kissed the Earth and she has responded with new life blooming everywhere!
God lived among us and died for us so we too can respond with new life!!

May is the month for blooming! Let your true colours come out!!
The magic is in you to love, to grow and for your talents to  bloom!
 

What we are praying for: 

Pray that God free the hearts of the people in your neighbourhood and the GTA to let their God given talents shine!
Pray that they open their hearts to let God's Spirit change their nature to be like Christ.
Pray that they accept their unique qualities and share their talents for good, with a sense of integrity and pride!   

Click here to go to: Black and White: Spring!: Let nature awaken the light that is in you!!  

Click here to see the cherry blossoms! 

We must be loving if we expect others to be. The only way is to ask God's Spirit to help us and develop that quality in us. The only way to really enjoy this life is to let God's Spirit change our hearts, then we can truly walk as we should and our talents will shine and our purpose be fulfilled.


 Encouragements from scriptures:

Isaiah 40:31. As we wait patiently for the weather to warm up, those who wait for God shall be renewed in strength and hope!!

Jeremiah 29:11. God's plans for us are that we have a future and great hope!

Ephesians 2. God has made us new so we can do the things planned for us!

2 Corinthians 4:16-18. Our spirits are being renewed every day! The joys that are to come shall last forever!

2 Corinthians 5:17, 18. The old life and it's ways has gone. A new life has begun in us and this is from God 
who has brought us to that life through what Christ did for us on the cross!

Galatians 5:22-25. The Holy Spirit develops the nature of Christ in us. That grows in us like good fruit! 

Found this site on line that may be helpful to know what the Holy Spirit does.
  
http://pointchurch.ca/what-does-the-holy-spirit-do/ 

Click here for a quick, basic explanation with music video!

 ( just remember, you and I both may not agree with all the beliefs of these organizations, but I feel these postings by them have a lot of encouraging information on the basics.)

Be patient with yourself and let God's love and character grow in you, 

then you will be free to be the most fruitful you!

The magic is God's Spirit in you!

We have been given the Holy Spirit so that we may understand what God has freely given us! 1 Corinthians 2:12

Beautiful Things - Gungor (Music Video)

Temperatures are rising, and hope is rising!

April Showers!
Let the Spring rains come and refresh the Earth. God's seeds of goodness are germinating in us! 

Click here to see more Spring colour!



This month's theme song: The Reason, click here!
 


This month's prayer: ( we are now wording the prayers so you can pray for your neighbourhood wherever you live in the GTA.)

Pray that God's Spirit will refresh the minds and hearts of your neighbours, 
and that they experience renewed hope, renewed dreams, renewed relationships.


This month's theme:

The land is being refreshed by the rain. Everything will soon be blooming!
New life will be sprouting up in us too, new hope, new energy!!   



Encouragements

Hosea 6:3. Let us press on to know God, who comes to us every day like the brilliant dawn, like a fresh spring rain!

John 7:37-39. All those who are thirsty, come to me and from within you rivers of living water shall flow out!

2 Corinthians 4:16. Our inner being is renewed every day!

Jeremiah 17: 7,8. Those who trust God are like trees planted by the river. They are not bothered by hard times. They keep producing good fruit.

Psalm 23. God is always close beside me. He brings me to safe, quiet places where I am refreshed!

Matthew 11: 28-30. Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle, and you will find rest for your souls."

 How refreshing to know that since Jesus died for us, nothing can separate us from God's love!





  

Spring rains awaken the seeds!

Happy Easter!!

 God raised Jesus to life! God will raise us from the dead too when eternity comes, but now God makes our lives new every day!!

Christ is the first of all who will rise from the dead. For God was pleased to live in Christ, and by him God made peace with everyone. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. ( Taken from Colossians 1:23 )

March Prayers

   

Spring is on the way!

March can be messy and at best dull! Let's look forward to Spring even if everything is grey! Let's remember that God's blessings are all around us even if they are not obvious. Let's look for them and be thankful every day. Remember that the snowy and rainy days are preparing the soil for the new life that's coming very soon.

 

What we are praying for:

Let's pray that everyone in the LGBTQI Community will never lose hope and that they will open their hearts to the blessings that God has prepared for them.

This month's theme:

Every day is new! God in our lives will make our experience new every day. New challenges, new ways of looking at things, new ideas to make a better future, new ways to love!

This year Easter is early. Not only can we look for new life in our daily lives, but we can remember that we too one day will be raised up to live with God forever as Jesus was. 

 

Encouragements:

Hosea 6:3. Let us press on to know God, who comes to us every day

like the brilliant dawn, like a fresh spring rain!

Lamentations 3:23. God's mercies are fresh every day.

Psalm 139: 7-10. No matter where I go your hand will guide me,

your strength will support me.

James 1: 17. Every good gift is from God.

Psalm 23:6. God's goodness follows us throughout our lives and we will

live with God forever.

Spring is on the way!!

Jon Foreman - "Your Love Is Strong"

                             


Another song that could be used for February's prayers.
Part of the Lord's prayer is used in the lyrics and the song could be sung as a prayer.

February, The Month Of Love!!

                             

February Prayers

This month let's remember that God does really love us and that his love can be found in Jesus Christ and his actions toward us,
not just in his death for us but in his communicating with us every day.

 

What we are praying for:

Let's pray that everyone in the LGBTQI Community will sense God's love and know they are not alone,
that God is with them all the time, and that they allow God's love to fill their hearts, 

so they can love themselves and those around them.

 

This month's theme:

God's love is there for us and is enough! God is watching over us in every area of our lives. 
God's love is the safe harbour, the anchor of our souls! 
God's love gives us the strength to face life's challenges!

 

Encouragements:

How do we know that God loves us?

1 John 3:16a, John 3:16, Romans 5:8

God showed his love for us by sending his son to die for us.

Romans 8: 32, 38-39

If God would give up his son for us, wouldn't he give us all our needs too?
Nothing in all creation will ever be able to seperate us from the love of God 
that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ephesians 2:4,5

God loves us so much that he gave us eternal life when he raised Christ

from the dead.

Let the Holy Spirit fill your heart with God's love. It will strengthen you, inspire you and bring you peace, joy and healing throughout your life!

 

Winter Blues!

January Prayers

                      

Happy New Year!!

It's not about making “New Year's Resolutions”. It's about choosing the light every day of the year! Our bodies are renewing cells and healing themselves every moment. Just the same we need to choose those things that bring us healing, peace and joy into our lives every day.

What we are praying for:

Let's pray that everyone in the LGBTQI Community accept God's love
and not be afraid to ask God for help in their lives.

 

This month's theme:

We can look at “New Year's Resolutions” in different ways.

1. Same old, but, in new perspective. Change the way you look at your life if everything has to remain the same.

2. Same old, but, done in a new way. Breathe new life into old bones.
   The change is as good as a rest! Tweak instead of overhaul!

3. Learn new tricks. Do something new, learn new ways of doing things, go down a different path, go down a new path, do new things within
   your comfort zone that are still familiar so you don't feel lost or get out of your comfort zone and try completely different things to stretch and grow! 

It's your life, your story that you are writing, so there is no right or wrong, just lessons to be learned! Remember who your source is.
God is your strength! God is your guide!

 

Encouragements:

God is in the details! God will cover you in the old and the new, the familiar and the strange! God's got your back!!

Ephesians 2:10. The Holy Spirit will enable us to do God's work on Earth.

God will raise us up to live with him in Heaven.

2 Corinthians 12: 8-11. When I am weak, the Holy Spirit is strong within

me and enables me to do God's will and changes
me into the likeness of Christ.

John 3: 27-36. God in Heaven appoints each person's work.

God becomes greater and greater, we become less. 

Psalm 118: 13-14. The Lord is my strength and song,
God has become my victory.

Psalm 37: 23. God delights in every detail of our lives!

And not to judge, but to help, for our best interest! 

Remember where strength and love comes from!
Thank you for your prayers!
All the best to you for this year!