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30 Days of Prayer Praise & Gratitude - Larry Cochran
30 Days of Prayer, Praise, & Gratitude
By Larry A. Cochran
30 Days of Prayer Praise and Gratitude
Copyright © 2016 by Larry A. Cochran
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.
ISBN: 978-1-365-55723-1
Printed in USA by Lulu.com
Dedication
To my wife and son.
There are no better people to dedicate this journal to than my wife and son, who inspire me to love God more. I know that as we seek to love God more, we undoubtedly learn how to love one another better and be empowered to put that knowledge into action. I pray that this book will inspire my son, my wife, my family, and my friends to seek the comfort of Jesus Christ above all.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Preparing for the journey
Goal Setting
1. God: The Journey Begins
2. GOD’S word
3. God the Holy Spirit
4. God the Son: Goal, Prize, Jesus Christ
5. Gods ultimate purposes
6. God’s Love
7. God’s Holiness
8. Gods faithfulness and steadfastness
9. God’s Glory and Majesty
10. God’s Sovereignty and Sovereign Rule
11. Gods abounding grace and forgiveness
12. God’s Patience, Longsuffering, and Endurance
13. God’s Resolution and Retributive Justice
14. Gods inability to lie
15. God’s Kingdom
16. God’s Improbable Deliverance Method
17. Gods enduring promise
18. God’s Life-giving Power
19. God’s On-time Provisions
20. God’s chosen people israel
21. God’s Willingness to Hear Us
22. God’s Parental Guidance
23. God’s name?
24. God’s Undivided Attention
25. God’s Sea of Forgetfulness
26. God’s guarantees
27. God’s Fruit
28. God’s Life Changing Program
29. God’s Ulterior motive
30. God’s Inescapable Clause
Wrapping Up
APPENDIX
Other Books, Papers, and Publications
Preparing for the Journey
Introduction
I was listening to a radio broadcast on Moody’s WMBI the day before Thanksgiving and I was suddenly inspired to write a 30 day journal of how grateful I am to God for all that he has done in my life. During the broadcast, Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth was speaking about being graceful and filled with gratitude regardless of what we might actually be going through. She spoke about a pastor who had invited the members of his church who were desperately seeking employment up to the front. Rather than pray for these members that they would find a job, he told them to just express gratitude toward God regardless. That struck me at the heart, not because I had felt ungrateful or because something good was happening to me. On the contrary, my wife and I are experience great hardships, not greater than those Christians around the world being persecuted for their faith, but not less either. God is concerned for the smallest details of our lives and he takes great care in imploring us to cast all of our cares upon him.
This journal is a journey in gratitude, praise, and prayer. I want every reader to take time to reflect on what is happening throughout each day as I seek desperately to allow the Holy Spirit to lead my thoughts, prayers, and daily reflections. This is not a devotional in the traditional sense because I am not intending for the reader to understand my perspective as much as I am hoping each one will be clearer on their own perspective. Sometimes it is easier to understand what we are thinking about others when we reflect on what we are thinking about ourselves. This journal is a partnership with the reader to open their hearts to God and allow him to give them the desires of their heart as I am seeking to receive the desires of my heart. During the next thirty days, I will be praying each day and writing about what my prayers were, then I will perform a gratitude check, and finally singing praises to the Lord using the Psalms. My intent is to look into my own heart of gratitude and take every reader along with me.
In the time that is being spent logging a portion of my prayer, I hope that each reader will stop at that moment and spend personal time in prayer themselves. I am only hoping that each reader would look to the Psalms for what praise would look like, even if the Psalm that I have chosen, is not their first choice. There is a lot of praise in the Psalms. From Thanksgiving morning until about Christmas Eve, I will be paying close attention to what my thought life is and journaling the rawest form of what is happening. I believe in transparency and truth, consequently the reader will have a lot of information about who I am. The point of sharing is not to simply expose myself to others, but also to myself. I hope to inspire the reader to begin their own journey toward exposing themselves to God and looking to find out the inner person, they never knew they were. He wants us to know what being the best version of ourselves really looks and feels like.
I do not intend for this to be a rundown on someone’s perceived theological understanding. I do not challenge what the bible actually teaches. I challenge what we all believe about what the bible actually teaches. Another good reason for writing this book is because there are so many people throughout my life that ask me how I feel about this or that. They ask me what I am going through. I am always trying to be as transparent as possible. Every book that I write is a little more of who I am and what I actually think. I do not want anyone at my parting or funeral being confused about what I actually thought in my heart of hearts. I love God with all of my heart, mind, soul, and strength, yet I know that I am simply a sinner who has been saved by His grace alone. God did not make me into a super saint who does no wrong, He made me a lump of clay and is placing me in the a clay mold called Jesus Christ so that He may slowly make me into what He desires.
The original intent was to focus only on those attributes of God that are ascribed to Him alone, but as I was being led, I started adding those that could relate to men in some measure or part, but in God they are whole. The abilities that we possess in part are generally in measure to what we know, respect, and can handle. Abilities that are found in God are limitless, perfect, and always used appropriately. I am sure that there are people who want to start a debate over the attributes of God, just so they can side track this journaling experience, however, that is a useless endeavor because that is not the intent of this book. I want to give what I can to God which really is nothing more than admiration for who He is.
By no means is this an exhaustive rendition of all that God really is because that would be a book too long for anyone to write. I am just looking daily into my own heart and seeking to share with the reader a reality check. No one is alone when God is with them. No one has all the answers without God being a very key part of them. No man can see God without first knowing Him for who He really is. The way up is down. The way out is in. The very life in Him is death to sin. I am not really trying to convert people; I don’t have that power only God does that. I simply want to inform people of what I have personally experienced from the LORD in prayer which is why I give praise and gratitude to Him forever.
So, let us start the journey together with some goal setting. You write out what you expect from this journey. It will not just be for you, but for someone who comes after you, that may need a little help. Yes they can get their own copy, but that would not be as helpful as a copy with your signature and your journey connection. Write in the margins of the book, write on the inside of the cover, write anywhere there is a place you can leave a side note to someone else. Then pass this book along to someone who may want to know you a little more. Yes, this is my journey and I am sharing with you. I want you to share with someone else.
Don’t be offended by the hard statements, challenge them, if you desire. Don’t ignore the questions to ponder, answer them as you will and then jot down something positive or negative about them. Let us learn together. Let us reason together. Let us motivate someone else together. I will say this again, I am not hiding my own feelings toward God; I love God with all of my mind, heart, and soul. I want the readers of this journal to do the same, yet I am realistic, this might not be the case. I hope people who are reading are made up of different religions,