Father, I’m encouraged that You are not done with me, because I am far from where I want to be in my walk with Jesus. I desire to love Him in a deeper way. I seek to know Him more intimately. I pray to be more like Him, as You continue your work in me. Allow me to continue my work for Your kingdom in a way that confirms and defends the gospel. Increase the territory of Your servant. May Holy Spirit grant me the words to say and the love to share in reaching out to hurting and wounded hearts. I sit quietly, now, in reverence for Your holiness, justice, sovereignty and power. Forgive me when I fail You, Father. Thank You for Your grace that covers me in the name and authority of Jesus, according to Your good and perfect will. Amen.
“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.” (Philippians 1: 2-8 NKJV)
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Joy S. Taylor is a follower of Christ, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her workdays were spent using the Master of Science in Accounting degree that God graciously allowed at the age of, well, greater than 40. She led a divorce recovery support group sponsored by her church for seven years, and spent more than a decade in leadership roles for Celebrate Recovery, using what God had done in her life to point others to the healing only Jesus gives. Now retired, she concentrates on writing for Jesus from her beloved hickory grove in Indiana, yet devotes some of her time to volunteering for Care Net.