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Prayer for Purity of Heart – February 14, 2017

February 14, 2017 by Jack Emmott Leave a Comment

Heavenly Father- Please help me be with You in prayer so that I and my heart can be and become one with You. My human emotions, self-centeredness, anger, lack of forgiveness and fear do not allow me to fully invite You and Your Son, Jesus Christ, into my heart. In faith I know that Your love, if seated in my heart, will transform and purify my heart. Then I can love others as I wish to be loved. I can be at peace with my self so that I can be at peace with my neighbor. I can be Your child and walk in the peace, love and light in the footsteps of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen

This prayer was inspired by the sermon given on February 12, 2017 by Stuart Bates, Rector, Saint Francis Episcopal Church-Houston.

Jack H. Emmott is a Member of Gray, Reed & McGraw, Houston, Texas and a Board-Certified family law attorney, mediator, author, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker. For more information about Jack or his latest book, Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love, go to BendingAngel.com.

Prayer for the Golden Rule to Rule Our Hearts – January 30, 2017

January 30, 2017 by Jack Emmott Leave a Comment

Heavenly Father – You have said through the Bible that we should do to others as we would have them do to us. In this age of threats to our safety from terrorism, please have Your angels bend over us and those we love to protect us from harm. As we take steps around the world to shield us from terror, please help us at the same time to honor Your Golden Rule. We cannot truly love You if we do not also honor and love Your children according to Your command. Please give our hearts the strength to follow this Golden Rule as we pray and act to make the Earth a safer place for all Your children. Amen

Prayer for Victims of Abusive Personal Relationships – January 22, 2017

January 23, 2017 by Jack Emmott 2 Comments

Heavenly Father – Today I pray to You for all Your children who are in abusive personal relationships. Many of the victims have lived so long with abuse that they do not know the difference between the darkness and the light or between love and hate. They are so accustomed to living with abuse that staying in it appears to be safer than taking courageous steps to leave it. The gravity of abuse too often overpowers the vision of the abused of ever living a life full of hope and happiness. God, please let the abused know that Your power and armor of light is greater than the cycle of abuse. Let them know that You are present to lead them along the path to peaceable and loving relationships. Please empower abusers to surrender their anger to You, so that one day they may be able to safely live and truly love others. Please help their children not create future family homes with the kind of abuse they experienced in their childhood. All this I pray in Your Holy Name. Amen.

Jack H. Emmott is a Member of Gray, Reed & McGraw, Houston, Texas and a Board-Certified family law attorney, mediator, author, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker. For more information about Jack or his latest book, Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love, go to BendingAngel.com.

Prayer for Millennials – January 17, 2017

January 17, 2017 by Jack Emmott 1 Comment

Heavenly Father– Today among Your children are millennials, the next gifted generation who will undoubtedly lead us into a future of historic advances in medicine, science, technology and art. I pray that You guide these talented millennials to overcome the challenges facing them. Because of the internet and lack of parental supervision many of them have been exposed to too much adult information before they were spiritually, psychologically and biologically prepared. For high achievers in our competitive society, family time and work life balance is much more difficult to obtain. For some parents homework has become the new family meal. The peace available in prayer is often eclipsed by too much electronic and social media stimulation. Although millennials will certainly use advanced technology to connect Your children around the world in ways once never dreamed of, please show them that the most important connection in life is with You and in following the footsteps of Your Precious Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Prayer for Room in the Manger in My Heart – Christmas 2016

December 24, 2016 by Jack Emmott 8 Comments

Heavenly Father, as I pray in Advent darkness please help me make room in the manger of my heart for the light of Christ to soon dwell. I have brothers and sisters in Christ who have little or no food to eat or water to drink or a stable for comfort or shelter. Out of the fruit of my labors may I generously give in Your Holy Name my time and money to Your less fortunate children who have so much more of so much less. As Mary borne baby Jesus, the King of Kings, please make room in the manger of my heart for me to carry the love and light of Your blessed Son to others so in need of Holy hope, healing and sustenance.

Amen.

Jack H. Emmott is a Member of Gray, Reed & McGraw, Houston, Texas and a Board Certified family law divorce and child custody attorney, mediator, author, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker.

Prayer for God to Be Seated on the Throne of my Heart – 2016

December 2, 2016 by Jack Emmott 1 Comment

Lord–In prayer I ask that You please make my heart ready to receive Your precious Son, Jesus, to find His rightful place on the throne of my heart. May my every mindful act, thought, deed and prayer be focused solely on what pleases You and not my need to control others, to have my way, to overlay my will on another person or to prove that I am right or that he or she is wrong. When I make room for Your Son to be seated on the throne of my heart, I know You will be pleased. Thus, I will live a life of loving acts in harmony with Your love and guidance over me. By faith those acts will be Your blessings and will never die but will live forever and ever on earth and in heaven.
Amen

This prayer was inspired by Father Bob Wismer in his sermon at the Christ the King service at St. Francis Houston. Father Bob spoke about how each of us has a continuous and ongoing inner battle in our hearts. Our will to do what we want or do what the Risen Christ and our God asks of us, His children, to do as He wills and what pleases Him, not us. Who is the victor to be? Thanks, Father Bob

Jack H. Emmott is a Member of Gray, Reed & McGraw, Houston, Texas and a Board Certified family law divorce and child custody attorney, mediator, author, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker.

Prayer in Memory to Dr. Denton Cooley- November 21, 2016

November 21, 2016 by Jack Emmott 9 Comments

Lord – I thank You for the precious legacy, life and work of Dr. Denton Cooley. Dr. Cooley was a truly great doctor, an amazing healer of hearts around the world, an even greater servant in Your Kingdom on Earth. Yet, as famous and great as he was and as deeply devoted to those he served, last Friday his own life came to end. Although his healing art had extended the lives of thousands of Your children, young and old, his death could not be prevented. This Thanksgiving there will be another empty chair at the Cooley family table. The family he loved and who loved him will feast in gratitude on the bounty his life made possible. At Christmas his cherished family will hang their stockings on the mantle of sorrow, but their stockings will be filled with the gift You gave to them and us when You sent Dr. Cooley to our needful world.

Because of his selfless service to God and humankind, I know that Dr. Cooley and his blessed bride, Louise, have now been reunited in heaven. I rejoice in knowing by faith that once again their two strong happy hopeful hearts are beating again as one. Thanks to the Risen Christ, his angelic work on earth will continue to operate in heaven under the everlasting light and love of God. Amen

Jack H. Emmott is a Member of Gray, Reed & McGraw, Houston, Texas and a Board Certified family law attorney, mediator, author, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker.

Prayer in Awe of the Supermoon – 2016

November 15, 2016 by Jack Emmott 4 Comments

Heavenly Father- I thank You for the beautiful world You have created for all mankind. Tonight I am in awe of the Supermoon, so large and so bright reflecting the light of the Sun onto Earth. Similarly, I pray that I and all of my brothers and sisters in Christ reflect Your love and the precious Light of Your Son Jesus onto this needful world by our service to You. Amen

Jack H. Emmott is a Member of Gray, Reed & McGraw, Houston, Texas and a Board Certified family law attorney, mediator, author, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker.

Post-Election Prayer for Our Nation – 2016

November 11, 2016 by Jack Emmott 6 Comments

Lord, I am deeply blessed to be living in the United States of America, the greatest democracy on Earth. I thank You for an election process in which changes in governmental leadership are based on all my fellow citizens exercising the Constitutional right to vote. In t read more

Prayer for Voting – 2016

October 29, 2016 by Jack Emmott 4 Comments

Heavenly Father – As a citizen of the greatest country on Earth, I thank you for all the blessings of living in America, one Nation under You, my God. As I exercise my Constitutional right to vote, please guide me in prayer to select the best candidates. I pray to You that those we elect across our Nation will be ones who afford America the greatest opportunity to heal and unify its people, to restore civility and peace, to respect and embrace the diversity among its people, to exercise fiscal responsibility and to give this and future generations the greatest opportunity to live, love, worship and flower in your Kingdom. May the exercise of my precious right to vote find pleasure in Your sight. Amen.