Prayers from Heaven

By Petera Boice

Whether by the universal script of the Bible or by personal anecdotes, God shares His commonality of faith and experience. He is the same throughout time to all, even personally. The only flaw is sometimes our script of writing style is inadequate to universal dimensions. The writing here means to be experiential and universal by lovingly implication.

By the lines of the woundedness we have that we surrender to Him, He teaches us healing depending on our affliction.

The lines of woundedness are across our heart and soul. It comes down to a deeper surrender and touch.

He suffered failings at college and work. Finally, he turned to God.

He went from his episcopal church to the assemblies of God. There he became honest and felt the healing of a whole spirit. After the sinner's prayer and a second baptism, he felt whole. At the water baptism, he was totally immersed and made a quick prayer before the dunking, "to be in the center of God's will for him."

He wanted to speak in tongues so he joined a Life in the Spirit Seminar and received tongues, speaking, and discernment. He became a charismatic Catholic and joined a charismatic Catholic church, Bread of Life. He recorded his discernments in the quiet of his home. In writing, he was expressing the language of the Kingdom of God.

His parents grew older, and he cared for them in their elder ages, nineteen years. It was a privilege and an act of love. At that time, his charismatic prayer group, Light in the World, folded.

Later, at a nursing home, he was encouraged to publish. He still writes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886857054

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Prayers from Heaven

Petera Boice

ISBN 979-8-88685-704-7 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88685-764-1 (hardcover)

ISBN 979-8-88685-705-4 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Peter Boice

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Writings

A Calling

A Call to Freedom

A Child with God

A Day That Illumines

A Depository of Trust Called God

A Difference That Redeems Us

A Discerning Spirit

A Faith

A God so Living as Love

An Image of Christ

A Journey of Faith

A Kind of Faith

A Knowing Mastery

A Living of Conscience

Alone, With All

Always Giving

A Miracle in Life

A Moment of Glory

A Moment's Immortality

A Mystery

An Answering Call

An Attitude of No Weakness, Simply at Peace

And so We Are

Answering the Critic

A New Tomorrow

An Intimate Love

A Passion

A Path Called of Faith

A Personal Commitment

A Prime Ordeal

A Purpose We Bridge to Light

A Rescue of Faith

Ascending His Steps

A Sanctifying Truth

A Sense of God

As Far as Life Will Shine

A Sole Issue of the Heart

Aspiring to Live

At a Moment's Notice

A Transforming Image

A Way into the Future

Bearers of Fruit

Bearing His Life

Becoming Eternal

Being Filled

Being in Tune with God

Being Is His Knowing by Life

Being Properly Attuned to God

Being Set Free

Being so Divine

Belief or Fervor

Better

Beyond Mere Function

Beyond Walking, Enjoying the Roses

Blest in Love

Bringing Ourselves Closer

Being Victory into Our Day

By Faith

Change

Change: Known and Unknown

Charity

Circumstances Are Not Truth for Us as Christ Is

Circumstance for Relationship

Cleanly Departing

Coming to Age

Coming to Terms

Compartmentalized

Converting so I Come Closer

Cornered

Created as the Blessing of Him

Creativeness

Creativity Is What He Is to Our Humanity

Crowns of Life

Daylight

Daylight Leads On

Day to Day

Depth that Speaks the Gospel

Detaching Circumstances from His Vision

Developing a Recovery Concept

Discerned Life

Discerning Truth

Doing and Knowing

Doing Our Best

Embodied

Encountering Awareness

Entirely

Excellence in Recovery

Expressing Feelings into Clarity

Expressing Love of Ourself

Faith That Calls to Us

Faith That Surrenders

Family

Family

Favor

Feeling Nature

Finding a Fit

Finding Empowerment

Finding Him

Finding Him

Finding Him Waiting in Restored Purpose

Finding Our Eternal Hope

Finding One's Potential

Finding Peace That Awakens

Flaws

Flying Planes

Following

Following Grace

Fragile Creatures

Freedom

Friends

Giving an Answer That Is Life

Giving God Our Dark Side

Giving Him Praise

Glorifying Jesus

Glory so Real in His Reality

God

God

God

God, Provident One

God's Determination

God's Land

God's Love

God's Offering

God's Touch

God's Vision

Gospel Light

Grace within Glory

Great Love

Growing

Growing

Growing Faith

Growing Spirituality

Healing Prayer

He Is What Finds His Faith in Us

He Loves so We May Desire

He Opens Each Day with Prayers for Us

Higher and Higher

His Answer

His Answers Are Revelation

His Dream for Us

His Freedom

His Grace

His Heartbeat

His Honor, Our Life

His Image of Change

His Immortality, Our Transformation

His Knowing

His Love Is Being That We Become, Community

His Presence, Oneness

His Reality Is Our Truth

His Understanding

His Yoke

If Only to Be Completely Healed

In a Unity of His Spirit We Find Common Ground

Infinite and Finite

In His Embrace

In Our Life

Inside God

Inspired?

Inspiration That Is Our Way to His Holiness

In the Coming and Going of Life

Into Land beyond Our Years

Into Our Heart

Into Our Mystic

Is Pleasure a Source of Pain?

Issuing from the Heart

It's Worth It

Jesus Christ

Justice for All

Kidding Aside

Knowing

Knowing God

Knowing He Is

Lasting with Truth

Letting Him Have Us

Life

Life-Bearing

Life Behind the Eight-Ball

Life by His Spirit

Life Is the Love We Know

Life Narrowed to God

Life on Our Terms

Life so Alive

Living as a Prayer

Loneliness Speaks of Him

Looking Ahead

Looking at Ourselves

Looking Beyond

Looking to Recover

Looking upon Expectations

Lost

Lost in Thought

Love in Limits of Faith

Love, Making so Pure

Love, Our Perfection

Love Remains

Love So Divine

Love's Answer

Love so Rare

Love So Pure

Love's Dying, Our Life

Love That Forms

Love, the Garment of All Life

Love: The Grace of Union

Loving

Made as an Image

Man

Maturity as a Sign of Belief in Christ

Me and Him

Mercy

Merging Souls

Moments

More

Motivating Change

My Brother, God

My Completion into Wisdom

My Lord, Why Am I so Blind?

My Will or His

Near to God

New Life

New Life

New Life with Old Parts

Nothing Can Avoid His Love, Nothing

Now in Love

Oneness

Opposites Attract

Or Is It Pride Instead?

Our Attempts at Glory

Our Awareness in His Sanctity

Our Dual Nature

Our Favor

Our Laurels

Our Love

Our Moment with Reality

Our Mystic Truth

Our Oblivion

Our Path

Our Personal Book of Revelations

Our Petty Frustrations

Our Re-creation

Our Saving Death

Peace that Loves

Our Upraising of Spirit

Our Walk in Life Is the Truth of His Call

Peace

Peace

Peacemaker

Pearls before Swine

Peering out Beyond Our Rut

People in Conflict

People of His Perfection

Perfection Is Character That Empowers Grounded Faith

Personal Integrity

Piercing the Heart

Pleasing God, Purpose with Him

Power from on High

Purposed into Him

Quenched

Radiant Living

Ramblings

Ramming Each Other

Releasing Our Grip

Resurrection Light

Revealing Grace

Sabotage

Sanctity Is God's Expressed Life

Seeds of Greatness

Set Free to More

Set Free with Our Soul

Shaping Our Answer into Our Personality

Social Rhythms

Spirited into Him

Spiritually Blind

Spiritual Unity

Stirred, Not Shaken

Struggles, Diminishing Time

Stuck in Faith

Stumbling

Surrender

Surrender

Tasting His Presence

That Each Soul Come to Its Fullness in Christ

That God Answers

That Love Can Inspire Faith

That What Is May Be out of Him

The Cross

The Curse of Living

The Dance of the Soul

The Deepening of Conversion

The Deliverance of Glories

The Door of Change

The Door of Our Soul

The Every Day with Jesus

The Eyes of the Lord Move with Our Soul

The Field That Brings Life

The Gift of Faith

The God We Marvel

The Grace of Confession

The Heartbeat of the Lord

The Heart Imitates Example

The Illusions We Live

The Inadequacy of Our Work

The Interior of Love

The Intimate God

The Joy of the Lord

The Last Resort

The Life of Circumstance

The Life of Faith

The Light of Change

The Light of Faith

The Light of God

The Location of God

The Love of Faith

The Love We Are, Being so Blest

The Loving Heart

The Many Levels of Glory

The Miracle of New Birth

The Move of the Spirit by Dialogue

The Opening

The Parody of Life

The Passion We Call Life

The Pleasure of Recreation

The Power of Language

The Prophecy of Life

The Quest for the Soul

The Revealing of God

The Rite of Passage

The Roadmap

The Scars of His Honor

The Secure Make Their Tent so Life Is Secure

The Self-Contained Believer

The Silence of the Lord

The Spirit Is a Oneness to All in God

The Spiritual Gate

The Steps of Our New Day

The Supernatural Eternity

The Taste of God

The Touch of God

The Unity of the Spirit

The Urge for Reality

The Value of Life

The Vision of Faith

The Wailing Wall

The Way Immortal

The Way Immortal

The Way of Love

The Worth of One

Thinking Perfect

Thoughts

Thoughts of His

Time Looks upon Us

To Do or Die

To Have It Work Out

To Know

To Me

To Pray for Christ

To Seek the Face of God

Toughening Up

Transcending Love

Transforming Power

Truly We Come to God

Trusting

Trusting in Life

Trust in Him Is Faith That Sanctifies

Trusting Knowledge

Trust That Brings Us to Our Knees

Truth

Truth as Life

Truth Bearing Him Our Soul

Truth Finds Redemption by Faith

Unconditional and Healing Love

Uncovering the Lamp of Our Heart

Union or Relationship

Unvarnished Faith

Valor

Visible

Vision from a Fire

Walking the Gospel

Ways He Comes in Us

Ways of Faith

We Live with His Purity

We Need Others in Community

We Need to Allow God in Spite of Us

We Need Vision of Him

What the World Hungers For

What We Are in God

When Communication Breaks

When the Day Ebbs upon Us

When the Light Changes

When Our Life Consumes Us

Where a Spirit Goes

Where I Am

Who Are We?

Why Is He So?

With His Trust

Within Liberty

Within Our Nature

Without Love, Redemption Fails

World

Would You Know Him?

Wounds That Heal

Zealous for the Lord

About the Author

In memory of

William K. Boice

Foreword

The writer had a spiritual awakening and conversion after a devastating trauma that changed his life. With no other options in his life, he turned to the Lord. These writings bubble over with his enthusiastic spirit and joy glorifying the Lord. There is a freshness and sincerity in these writings. They came from a man who writes from a full heart; he has had no theological training. This deep faith and putting himself in the hands of the Lord helped him to take charge of his life again and deal with the gifts he had been left with. The writings come from a sensitive soul and strong spirit. They are truly a statement of the Holy Spirit in the writer.

These inspired writings come from the heart and a devote Christian. They express wondrous love and exuberant praise of the Lord. These religious essays have joyous religious fervor and reveal the passionate nature of a true believer. Long passages of the writings are dazzling in their worship of the perfect Being, in His wisdom and goodness. We are urged to trust in his love for all, the strong faith that shines forth in these writings shows a spirit that has been elevated to embrace God to the highest degree. They also show a fervent and humble spirit. The reader finds freshness and pure joy expressed in these writings. The writings and their messages are very clear and are a strong affirmation in life of the believer.

Introduction

Having failed at machining and nursing, I discovered a relationship with Jesus, saved December 18, 1989. I began journaling as a charismatic Catholic in 1991. The inspiration of the Lord would reach me in solitary quiet. These writings are the only typed ones. Since 1991, I have kept journaling till now.

Writings

A Calling

When I delve into the memories of my past, I realize how futile my reconciling is. Things have been laid to rest, and now is a time to proceed going straight ahead.

There is much to correct in me. So why not take it one thing at a time as time proceeds.

My advocacy tells me to have a special compassion and clear-mindedness. It says to plan ahead and think ahead. The time at the present is formative of me.

Now is the time to bear fruit and seed for the future.

My advocacy is a building of me and others. It begins with family and reaches to community. It means I am growing on all levels. Some may already be enhanced. It's a time to dream and call one's future right here.

An exchange of value takes place. The goodness of intentions bears inspired response.

Now a transforming moment leads.

A Call to Freedom

There is a way we call in the assurance of the Lord, deciding He is in control.

The Gospel teaches us to His Life.

We need to hold to that.

We pray to insure our trust.

The message of prayer is confirmation of Him.

This truth says we are real to the Gospel.

Faith restores us to belief.

It is His gift to have us enjoy life.

It's not for us to find Him in our enjoyment but in His pleasure, transforming us.

All we need be is receptive.

Freedom comes in when we no longer control our heart toward the sin of injustice and rather let God talk to it.

A Child with God

The making we undergo is an entrance into the light of God. The child each of us is the sign of empowerment we hold in Him. It is our mortality before His immortal nature. Here is the gamut of our life, to be entirely in His grasp.

We are established to yoke with His love.

In His grasp is our eternalizing, surpassing the barriers of the natural to find Him in cosmic heaven.

We only want to be His pleasure.

He only wants goodness, Him, to open us to love.

My heart tells me to look forward, know that everything is held in His expectation. To conform my will even more sincerely to His, as this is the way of conversion. To be ever so much more in Him.

I gasp and realize His face shining on me. It is His experience that renews and the struggle continues.

A Day That Illumines

As we turn the page of each day, we are assured that what has come to pass is past us as we look forward. The promise of new beginnings always seems free of any entanglement of the past. It is our hope to find new access into life by these beginnings. The imagery of the new day recoils in our spirit as by some supernatural gift that we have found by way if some strange coincidence. Mystic wandering faith has touched us. We are reborn to the moment. The day shines and we are part of it.

As the moment passes, we find it lingers in our expectations. Transformed more within the light, we find a freshness in our surroundings. We are in spiritual truth, free of clichés.

It's not a case of ecstasy when the mystical call of faith inspires within us. It is a case of meeting the face of God. To know Him is to be caused to recreate that life is a gift. Such recreation is a fondness for God and what pleasure is His touch.

There are times He is real, and we know.

A Depository of Trust Called God

The social interaction is fairly typical for believer or nonbeliever. Trust is the mainstay, although it differs in placement, one to the indwelling God and the other on how we feel.

Trust means someone will be there. In principle or relevance.

There are ways of indiscretion. It comes when we look beyond hope to vain glory. We put people at risk then. Trust needs the discipline of His faith in us.

Our responses to His lead among people is to accept the love He has given us and inspire His breath among all people.

The thing to recognize in social contexts is that all goodness speaks of God. And where God is not magnified, relationships are all with the world. We need trust. Or is God our rock.

A Difference That Redeems Us

The way we devote ourselves to life shows how we answer His call of faith. Such, being a complete involvement, means total surrender.

We cannot be too sensitive to how we find devotion in people. It is a process of centering life with faith.

That we find our union with people a difference of integrity and dignity is only a reflection of how personal His mystery is to all.

It's not that we respond to life differently, but uniquely. There is a sameness. This is God's love, to put us together as community by giving us sight to see each in the other as a difference for all. It is our difference that fits us as the pieces of His puzzle, salvation.

A Discerning Spirit

Discerning the spiritual must be done with care because it's a matter of life and eternal life. Discerning means there's learning and growth. If we trust in God, His trust means we are protected. Once we come of faith in something, that disappointment will not happen again with our new eyes of faith to Jesus. If only we will find His love in our faith to overcome the present darkness.

Discerning means we will be tried, but not to excess. Discerning means with care we can come to disclose that conversion is within a soul's heart. The soul is much more deceptive. Here, the devil tries to destroy us.

Being real is being discerning. That's being what God wants of you so the truth can stand up before you. Then, God's love is the truth discerned.

A Faith

The difference in life before us and with faith is that conceptions are the reality our literal space hopes to define.

The margins we adhere to, to be called one with the present are involved by a divine nature. We are filled with Him. That is the sum of our experience. He is the sum of all we call a bearing with life. It is a nobility of reality, Life.

The merit of this is that by knowing we are.

Being so is a gift of who we are. A way to perceive truth and live so.

The expressed truth of living is the holiness of relation God brings.

Our life is the summation of God's involvement with us.

An intimacy that constantly raises us beyond.

Here in God's embrace, all spiritual truth is accessible.

We only listen to Him talking to our heart, and we have a sense of what He wants of us. But relationship comes in the combining of the religious and the mystic to a covenant nature in Him.

A God so Living as Love

We know God in the living of virtue. Before then, we may have known of Him but did not know Him. The infusion of His unconditional love gives us that virtue to live by. Only God can give us virtue to live by.

There is peace. And each time He honors it with His presence. We are to know each other by loving relationships and the net result of these is peace with God. Our whole life is meant to be a peace within Him.

Peace for God is the tranquility of the heart. He cannot express Himself to us with the presence if the heart is base or violent to itself. Then, He can only touch it in