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Prepare the Way for Ohio

🕊 You are the Church. If you are a Christian, you are a walking, talking, and praying ministry for Christ. But who is God calling you to minister to and are you?

Help me minister to the state of #Ohio

AN INVITATION TO PREPARE THE WAY (Read or skip to PRAY –> 🙏‍🔥)

‍🔥🕊 You are the Church. If you are a Christian, you are a walking, talking, and praying ministry for Christ. But, who is God calling you to minister to and are you?

🎤 In 2014 God pursued me to pray for a local City. The daily news in that area was overwhelming and my prayers were drowned in despair. I invited others to pray with me #TwoOrThreeForYourCity and many said, “Yes.” 6 years of Sundays I emailed a devotional prayer for that City, uniting us all as we petitioned heaven.

➡️ Fast forward to today and God pursued me to write a devotional designed to pray for Any City in any state. Will you join me in preparing the land?

As I near the completion of my devotional to pray for your City, I feel the need to pray for each state. Help me minister to the state of #Ohio. #State35of50

🙏‍🔥 God, thank you for every person who calls Ohio home. We ask you to bless their land and every person there. We lift up Governor Mike DeWine and ask for wisdom and Godly counsel for him. Create a desire in Ohioans to pray in community for their community. In Jesus’ name, amen.🛐

❤️Be sure to ‘LOVE’ if you prayed. Thank you!
🏠If you live or have lived in Ohio, give a shout-out in the comments.
🔗Please share this post with someone you know in Ohio.

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Keep Walking on Mustard Seeds,

Michele Marie Weisman

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Prepare the Way for North Dakota

🕊 You are the Church. If you are a Christian, you are a walking, talking, and praying ministry for Christ. But, who is God calling you to minister to and are you?

Help me minister to the state of #NorthDekota

🙏‍🔥 God, thank you for every person who calls North Dakota home. We ask you to bless their land and every person there. We lift up Governor Doug Burgum and ask for wisdom and Godly counsel for him. Create a desire in North Dakotans to pray in community for their community. In Jesus’ name, amen.🛐

❤️Be sure to ‘like or share’ if you prayed. Thank you!
🏠If you live or have lived in North Dakota, give a shout-out in the comments.
🔗Please share this post with someone you know in North Dakota.

What would you add to the prayer for North Dakota? Put it in the comments and let us pray together!

#PrayForNorthDakota #PrayForNorthDakotans #GovernorDougBurgum #GovernorOfNorthDakota #PrayForYourNeighbor #PrayInCommunityForYourCommunity #UnitedPrayerWorks #PrayersOfTwoOrThreeChangesThings #PrayForYourCity #PrayLocal #TwoOrThreeForYourCity #WalkingOnMustardSeeds #WOMS #DevotionalPromotion #DevotionalPrayerForYourCity #EveryCityEveryState #YouAreTheChurch #MustardSeedDevotion #MustardSeedGPSLocal #WOMSGiveLocal #WOMSPrayLocal #WOMSServeLocal #WOMSTwoOrThreeForYourCity #WalkingOnMustardSeedsDevotionalTwoOrThreeForYourCity

Keep Walking on Mustard Seeds,

Michele Marie Weisman

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Are Your Emotions Stealing God’s Best for You?

A way to easily gain a positive expectancy, outlook, and a smile in your heart if not on your face–is to

"Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the Lord."

Psalm 119:1, NLT

The early morning glory of red and purple playing back and forth in the sky is erased when the sun soars upward. Like your once-wrapped packages under the tree that were poised to be opened, the treasure is now fully exposed.

As you walk into the New Year of our Lord, the newness will lose its grandeur of the gifts and the expectancy of a new year. That is normal and dare I say okay. There is nothing wrong with not being as thrilled with the gifts or the anticipation of a new year.

Newly opened gifts and perhaps a new goal or two in mind, the ‘newness’ of the gifts and new year always dulls.
Michele Marie Weisman

However, the joy of God never dims or diminishes. What was true of God yesterday is true today and will be tomorrow.

Easily gain a positive expectancy, outlook, and a smile in your heart if not on your face by simply serving in your community. Your City. Remember, Jesus says we are serving him when we serve another.

Ideas to Serve: Call a friend or acquaintance and ask how they are doing. Pen a note to someone and put it in the mailbox. Are you running errands today? Who can you let go before you in line at the check out, or can you pay for someone’s items at the store?

Pray with me.

God, my emotions will fail but you always have an abundance of joy to give away. Show me where to serve. In Jesus’s name, amen.

Thank you!

Thank you for visiting in 2023! I consider it an honor when you stop by Walking On Mustard Seeds.

I am able to see what country a reader visits from. A total of 41 countries stopped by to read my blog this last year!

Because I can’t offer you tea or coffee, please know I pray for you and thank God for you.

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What was the most popular blog post of 2023? Nine Benefits of God’s Will for You

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Please know you are always welcome here. I look forward to crafting more blog posts for you and thank you for your grace as I learn to juggle the blog and finishing my manuscript for release in the Spring of 2024

Keep Walking On Mustard Seeds,

Michele Marie Weisman

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An Easter Prayer for Your City

Everyone wants to feel invited. Invited to the birthday parties, and the barbeques. God’s desire is for people, all people to know His son. It starts with an invitation.

I have prepared a prayer for us to pray over your City. Before you pray, ask God to show you all the people you have seen this week as you drove around town, shopped, and worked. Or any other activity you took part in. Really capture some faces.

The silhouette of people standing on the other side of a glass wall. It looks like a subway line.

I’ll give you a minute.

Do you have some images from the week? God sees them too, and many more. The ones you don’t see within your regular routines. God is as aware of them just as He is of you.

Your prayer today can affect the ones you do and don’t see. It’s that simple, City Prayer.

Easter is upon us, and churches are ready to receive an overflow of guests.

A Welcome mat at a door. Brown leaves lay on the mat and around it. A person is standing at the mat, feet facing the door. They have a long coat on.

Let’s Pray

Lord, we lift up my Prayer Partner’s City boldly to Your throne. You see every person, the joy, hope, worry, and fear in their heart. Some have questions about You, a deep curiosity. Some are walking away from You, believing lies. And some don’t think you exist, as they enjoy your creation. May each of them be drawn to a local church. May they feel welcomed and wanted, invited inside. May Your love greet them at the door and the gospel truth capture and resurrect their hearts. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Stone grave with large round stone rolled to the side signifying Christ's empty grave.

Happy Resurrection Sunday to you and your family!

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I am excited about the devotional I will be reviewing next week. It is called PSALM 91, Fronliner, and First Responder Edition. The author is Peggy Joyce Ruth.

Keep Walking on Mustard Seeds,

Michele Marie Weisman

Photo by Yolanda Suen on Unsplash (people)

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash (welcome mat)

How your frustration blocks God’s plan and how to clear the path.

Seen from the back, a young boy standing outside, holding and studying a paper map.

Many years ago, my frustrations blocked my path, literally. I got lost. (Pre-2000) Gripping handwritten directions and sweating in mid-summer with a no-air-conditioning Toyota mini-truck left me little to go on. I missed an onramp–somewhere.

My forty-five-minute trip took six hours. Filled with fear, worry, and some tears, once I stopped and asked someone for directions, I clearly saw how to get home.

Frustration Blurs our View

Blurred image of woman's head with hands, palms facing out, covering her head. Ivy background.

Jonah was told by God to travel to Nineveh. Warn the people, God told him, of the wrong they were committing. Johna did not want these instructions and fled in his own direction. He did not like God’s plan and was going to make sure he was not part of it.

When you try to stop God’s plans, life gets confusing.

Jonah ends up cast into the sea by men afraid of his God and soon after swalled whole by a whale. This is quite a mess he has found himself in!

Mesh garbage bin, with crumpled paper inside and on the floor outside of it.

What is the solution to things that frustrate you? Talking to God. AKA, prayer. It is simple. I finally stoped and asked for directions and received the information I needed. Jonah had already been given his directions.

Peace comes with this simple and humble step. Saying, “I don’t know the right thing to do in this situation, but someone else does,” is okay.

Still frustrated–what to do next.

The bigger issue is a heart issue. I know, you probably hear this a lot, so I appologize for repeating what you already know.

If we look at Jonah again, he was spiteful in his heart even while he did what God directed him to do. He warned the Ninevehites, but was bitter about it.

Was it that he needed to forgive these people? No. They had not hurt Jonah. Call it pride, ego, or lack of practice, God calls us to help people.

This help comes in a most unusual way. Prayer. We are to pray. Pray for those we love and pray for those who hurt us.

Stop. Come back!

There is so much discord in our lives. News bombards us with stories of crime, wrong doing, even uncontrollable weather. What can we really do with any of this news? We have our own lives to live.

If you listen, really listen closely to the effect of all the bad news, it creates an overwhelm and finger pointing.

God does not command us to be undone by news reports. He tells us to pray for those who bring harm. (Matthew 5:44) And Luke says it this way, you are to pray for anyone who uses you. (Luke 6:28)

Do you feel a continual flow of harm and being taken advantage of?

That could be the chorus of any news feed.

Dirty white tennis shoe being worn. Brilliant monarch butterfly landed on the toe of the shoe.

We are to respond with prayer. Does that sound boring and wimpy? The gift from God of peace can dwel in us when we submit to His power.

Tell me what you think about this.

I don’t like all of the news I hear about my town. But when I set aside my opinions and wants, praying for each person involved, I am giving God glory though my act of prayer. Instead of six hours of frustation, like my driving journey, I can release the outcome to God in a small amout of time.

God, help me see where I feel pushed around by a person or group. Guide my heart in prayer for them. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Until next week, keep Walking on Mustard Seeds,

Michele Marie Weisman

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