Sharing My Knowledge Keeps It Alive   When you receive love or knowledge, you pass it on, and thereby leave yourself open to receive again.  If you hold on to it, you don’t leave room to receive; you don’t need it, because you don’t use it…Knowledge without revelation is dead; knowledge held on to goes nowhere and helps no one.  But the knowledge that we reveal to others takes on a life of its own, and allows us to receive more knowledge to share. The Awakening Heart  -  pages 206-207   Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Matthew 5:15    Thank you, Father, for showing me that, as I give, so I receive.  Bless me to use and to teach the truths I have learned of you generously and with love.  I want to be worthy to learn so much more.  Keep my knowledge of you alive in me.   Affirmation:  By all my actions I manifest my knowledge and love of God.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

Heaven’s Vastness Contains Worlds Unnumbered   We are all God’s children, and he has filled the immensity of space for us.  I traveled tremendous distances, knowing that the stars I saw were not visible from earth.  I saw galaxies and traveled to them…visiting their worlds and meeting more children of our God, all of them our spiritual brothers and sisters…I saw worlds that our most powerful telescopes could never see, and I know that love that exists there. Embraced By The Light  -  page 88   Which alone spreadeth out the heaven, and..which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and …which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. Job 9:8-10    The night sky fills me with wonder, my Father.  The stars, the planets, the many worlds; all are your beautiful creations and are given in love.  Thank you for blessing me with a sense of the vastness and eternal nature of your creation.  May I always give you praise and glory.   Affirmation:  I live in gratitude and love for the Creator and many worlds.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

Gratitude…helps ward off negativity.  —The Ripple Effect  -  page 76 Hi Dearest Waves, looking forward to what you will share. I am grateful for a new day and to wake up with clearer insight. Continued prayers for Alissa, Ashley and Me and Matt and for God's guidance and healing for my family. Grateful for my family, friends and loved ones. Grateful for the reminders each day that God is with us and will never leaves us. God bless all of you too!

My Time and Place Perfectly Suit My Needs   I distinctly remember watching the American pioneers crossing the continent and rejoicing as they endured their difficult tasks and completed their missions.  I knew that only those who needed that experience were placed there…I sensed that many of us…would not have been up to the tasks, that we would have made lousy pioneers…Likewise, some of the pioneers…could not have endured the trials of today. Embraced By The Light  -  pages 52-53   Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written…when as yet there was none of them. Psalms 139:16    Father, in creating me and establishing the elements of my life, you acted in perfect knowledge of me and my needs.  I thank you humbly for your care.  When circumstances in life become difficult to endure or to understand, help me to accept that your wisdom is perfect in all you do, and to trust you have prepared for the difficulties.   Affirmation:  I embrace my time, place and circumstances.  They meet my spiritual needs.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

Dreams Reveal My Life’s Hidden Facets   Dreams and visions are often brief partings of the veil which allow our souls a peek into heaven.  By them we discover there is more to life than what our everyday senses tell us.  Dreams and visions help us to see our actions in all their facets: in the beauty of harmony and abundance, or in the nightmarish details of things we ought to change within ourselves or in our circumstances. The Ripple Effect  -  page 143   But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known…what shall be…Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these…  Daniel 2:28    Father, make me wise in observing the images and impressions that come as guidance from you in dreams and visions.  Help me to grasp the potential realities revealed, so that I will make changes in my life or acknowledge my spiritual path and its importance to you.   Affirmation:  I am awakened to dreams and visions that direct my journey toward love.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

God Helps Me Keep Commitments Made in Heaven   All of us have made commitments in the spirit world to help each other.  But we are slow to keep our covenants made so long ago.  So the Lord sends angels to prompt us, to help us be true to these obligations.  He won’t force us, but he can prompt us.  We don’t know who these being are---they appear like anybody else--but they are with us more often than we know. Embraced By The Light  -  page 101   Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.   Exodus 23:20    Father, you never falter in keeping your word.  Teach me to do likewise so that when I return to you, I will stand in a place of honor for keeping the covenants I made in heaven.  Thank you for whispering to my spirit when I stray off course, and for redirecting my path back toward you.   Affirmation:  God sends angels to prompt and inspire me to continue in his will.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

The Duality of Life Brings Eventual Balance   During my experience, I learned that there are two parts to every person.  They can be described in various ways: male and female, intellectual and emotional, protective and nurturing, right brain and left brain.  Often…we go through life being one way or the other, but we can learn to balance both parts…Being off balance, too far one way or the other…keeps the spirit away from where it needs to be to achieve its greatest growth. The Awakening Heart  -  pages 129-130   The very God of peace sanctify you wholly…your whole spirit and soul and body… 1 Thessalonians 5:23    Father, show me how to be balanced in spirit and flesh.  Bless me to recognize all the qualities of my being and then to bring them forward in ways which produce harmony and strength.  Thank you for every attribute you have created in me.   Affirmation:  I am sensitive to all that I am, and I equalize my life in all its wondrous parts.  I am whole.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

Belief in God Brings Joy and Life to My Soul   As we allow ourselves to believe in God and to accept his love, a quiet joy will rekindle our souls, a joy we will instantly want to share with others.  And as we share it lovingly, that spark of joyful heaven will begin to swell within us, filling our entire souls. The Ripple Effect  -  page 13   Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven…  Luke 6:23    Father, I believe in you and freely accept your love.  Lasting joy fills my soul at thoughts of returning to my home with you in heaven.  Bless me to share my excitement with others and to express my knowledge of you, that I may awaken in them also a sweet longing for your loving embrace.   Affirmation:  My soul rejoices in knowing God, my own dear Heavenly Father.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

Life Force from God Energizes All That Is Created   In every moment of our existence we tap into the energies surrounding us.  We acquire the energy of plants as we eat them, smell them, feel them, wear them.  We acquire the energy of animals in the same ways.  We exchange energy with other individuals as we interact with them, touch them, hear them, look at them, even by reading their words. The Ripple Effect  -  page 73   It is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him:  for it is his portion.  Ecclesiastes 5:18    Father, thank you for the many forms of life you have created.  Plants and trees produce food and medicine and blanket the earth with their wondrous beauty and fragrance.  You also blessed us with animals and birds; some to clothe our bodies and cover our feet, some as food, and others as loving companions whose spiritual energy and intelligence is seen in their eyes and felt through their spirits.   Affirmation:  My Creator’s vital energy flows to me from all his creation.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

The Presence Of Love Expands My Spirit   Before my return, I noticed that my spirit also emanated an abundance of light--light that was full to overflowing with love!  It was [Jesus’] presence of love that I had absorbed, and it expanded me…Like attracts like.  Just as fear is contagious, so is love.  My desire to love and be loved was evident in my countenance. The Awakening Heart  -  page 40   And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.  1 Timothy 1:14   Father, bless me to walk in paths you would choose and to seek holy, pure and noble things in life.  May I know the glory of unconditional love, not only as I receive it from you, but as I give it to others.   Affirmation:  I attract and embrace the splendor of love energy.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

Waves are sending prayers up to heaven for your Joseph and Michele! Praying for enlightment to shine bright and fill your hearts with joy with new understanding and gained wisdom in any area of struggle or confusion! God bless, protect and generously shower you with all he had planned being the perfect loving Father who want everything good for his children! Thanking God for your light on this earth! Praying for extra miracles this season for you, your families and all those in your heart and thoughts! Praying this in Jesus' Almighty and healing name, Amen!

The Glory Given Jesus by the Father Is Everlasting   He was Jesus, my Lord and Savior … Although this light shone brightly around him, I saw that he was the light and it came from within him…Prisms of intense light spiraled, pulsated, and moved with each miniscule change in his thoughts or desires.  His eyes, though liquid with his love, somehow danced like fire, flickering with energy and life when he needed to express to me his most sincere and earnest wishes for me. The Awakening Heart  -  page 15   The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.  Isaiah 60:19    Father, how grateful I am for the life and atonement of your son, my Friend and Brother Jesus Christ.  Simply thinking of his countenance brings me renewed hope, love and peace.  His love upholds me in times of disappointment, and inspires me to follow him in his path of perfect knowledge and truth.   Affirmation:  I follow unceasingly my Lord Jesus, whose path is as clear and bright as the sun.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

Gratitude…helps ward off negativity.  —The Ripple Effect  -  page 76 Dearest Waves, I am grateful to be here this morning and for the reminder of how powerful gratitude is and prayer too! I pray for you and your needs and a lighted path on your journey where God is leading you right now. I am grateful that with each obstacle God is guiding, even when we can't understand every detail. I am grateful that God always keeps his promisses and that all things are possible with and through him! Sending Love, prayers and gratitude this Thanksgiving day weekend dearest Waves.

Sharing My Light Casts Out Darkness   If each of us shares our light, soon all dark corners will be reached, and we will begin the healing of the world by chasing out darkness.  We, too, will begin the healing of our own souls. The Ripple Effect   -  page xvi   The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.  Proverbs 4:18    Father, no greater love, truth or wisdom shines forth like yours and that of your Son Jesus.  I seek to become refined and as you are:  a glorious shining example of that which is perfect.  May my attempts to be just and upright with others encourage them to also follow the example of our Lord.   Affirmation:  I share my knowledge of God gladly by my example.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

Happy Thanksgiving, praying for peace, joy and for all to feel God leading your way and Jesus protecting and loving you with every breath you take! God bless your families, loved ones and all in your hearts always! With love, Renee'

Angels Walk Among Us on Earth   Sometimes God foresees circumstances in our lives that will need to be changed for our good, and he intervenes in one way or another.  When he does, however, he always honors our freedom and agency to do whatever we choose.  To intervene, he may place certain persons into our lives to guide or persuade us in a new direction.  Or he may give us meaningful dreams or place influential thoughts into our heads.   He may send divine beings to inform us or protect us. The Ripple Effect   -  pages 125-126   Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.  Hebrews 13:2    Father, thank you for the times you have sent a perfect stranger to assist me in my need.  These strangers are Earth Angels to me; people who are loving and willing to do service unselfishly.  Let me, in turn, step forward to help when you open my eyes to someone’s need.   Affirmation:  God honors me with angels of flesh who are generous and kind to all people.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

What I Give Returns to Bless Me   I once heard that “you find love when you give it away.”  That made sense to me because that was exactly what happened to me in my embrace with the Lord.  He gave me love, and I returned it, not knowing that I had love to give. The Awakening Heart   -  page 40   Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee… John 21:17    Father, you are love because you give love unconditionally.   Help me to emulate you and Jesus by growing in the love I share.  Bless me to give it more freely within wisdom and honor and respect.  Let me live within the laws that govern giving and receiving it, so I will receive the fullness of your blessings.  Thank you, Father, for the purity of love that Jesus gained from you.   Affirmation:  The love I give returns to bless me many times over.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

My Creator’s Love Empowers Me   How empowering it is to know that we are so blessed, so directed by our Creator, to know that even in our weaknesses he never gives up on us.  He encourages us in unending and marvelous ways to find and use our natural strengths for higher purposes, for a higher plan. The Ripple Effect  -  page 143   For my strength is made perfect in weakness.  Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  2 Corinthians 12:9   Father, I am weak, but your love strengthens me.  Keep me near you always.  And bless me to see my weakness without harsh judgment, so that I can be empowered by focusing on my strengths.  Teach me to use the weaknesses I cannot overcome, to serve you in some small way.   Affirmation:  My weaknesses are natural strengths made perfect in God’s higher plan.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living

It is a blessing to say prayers for you both! Heavenly Father, bless Kathy M and Christian (Utexus Nurse) this day and each day. Bless them to feel your guidance and presense, bless them with peace, joy, miracles and all that you know is needed and may be needed in the future. Bless their preparedness efforts and protect them and their loved one always. Thank you for the blessing it is to hold our fellow prayer partners up in prayer! Praying this in Jesus' name, Amen.

The Unseen World Vibrates with Life and Energy   To understand the power of the “unseen world” we should understand what it is composed of.  Everything in the universe is made of energy, including our bodies and spirits.  All that exists, materially and spiritually, contains energies which vibrate at various speeds. The Ripple Effect  -  page 72   For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him…  Colossians 1:16   Father, as I come to understand the miracle of creation and the glory of your hand in all that is, bless me to appreciate both the seen and unseen worlds.  You are the source of all light, power and energy in the universe.  My own body and spirit have their life in you.  Bless me to send out through my thoughts and desires, ripples of goodness and love which will replicate and grow to bless the world.   Affirmation:  I recognize the energy that exists in all things, and acknowledge God’s wisdom in his creation.   Embraced By The Light Prayers and Devotions for Daily Living