One Minue Devotions of faith builiding encouragement

So what is AtONEment? Simply, it is an ever-growing relationship with God. It is a conscious and intentional decision on our part to pursue knowing the Lord on a truly personal level. This book will help each seeker to daily receive a fresh perspective on how to grow in their walk with the Creator of the universe and the Father of each heart. Using the individual phrases of the Lords Prayer as a guideline for each months focus, the reader will find insight and incentive to: Realize enhanced relationships Recognize new views on forgiveness, prayer, temptations, and love Renew enthusiasm to pursue Gods will with revitalized trust in His provision. Be filled with the Spirits power to meet each day through the well-chosen words from a treasure-trove of wisdom, from ancient times throughout the ages. Start the journey today, growing and knowing God better and better.

Before you read: You should pray quietly and invite the Holy Spirit to breathe upon your understanding and make you comfortable. At the end of your study, thank the Holy Spirit for His leading in the exercise; and too, remember any who came to mind while you have been impacted with new direction for the better. Read: Open the book and find the relevant section that will speak vividly to you as per direction. Read slowly and think through the meaning revealed. You may need to reread for clarity. Section: Each section was specially thought out and researched with a view of helping Christians to fulfil their dreams and aspirations in their chosen relationships. On Your Journey: You will need to depend on the Holy Spirit’s on a daily basis. Focus: To maintain a focused relationship you and your partner, spouse or friend must connect your life of prayer with God in daily devotion. Any relationship that is before God is sustained only by His daily visitation. Suggested Prayer: God, who wonderfully saved us and calls us on this new day to continue this earthly journey, seal us afresh by Your Same Holy Spirit as we together fulfil your purpose. Amen Communication: Trust that this book will excite you and generate your continual interest to pass it on to help others. My passionate hope is that it will bring wholeness and wellness to your relationship. I wrote this book because I am convinced that it will be a useful instrument as another help in nurturing growth and development in a life worth living before God. The Names: God, Christ and Lord will be used interchangeably throughout.

King David has an important role in the Old and New Testaments and huge impact on the nation of Israel. The Father witnessed and said about David, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart.” (Acts 13:22) The Lord Jesus, Son of David, witnessed, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying ...” (Matthew 22:43) The Holy Bible said about him, “Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and the Lord is with him.” (1 Samuel 16:18) A great man like that, who went through a lot in his life from being uncounted among his brothers to become a king of all Israel, who experienced distress, joy, victory, defeat, with a heart after God’s heart—it is worthy to know how he, by the Holy Spirit, expressed all these feelings and put them in the psalms. This book will search that heart to bring out of his treasure things new and old. (Matthew 13:52)

Blessing from the Spirit reflects in whole how these poems were created. The Lord placed an ear in my heart so I could hear his word. As the holy spirit would speak the words I would write them down, and that is how these works were created. The first time the Lord spoke to me through my heart was in September 1997. This is what he said to me, "I will come to you in visions and I will visit you in dreams, and I will give thee wisdom in the ways of secret things," and he has. Before 1997 I had never written anything before the lord came into my heart, I was performing Country music classics in bars, wedding, V.F.W. halls etc. Now, only Gospel music I sing.

I have said somewhere else in this Prayer Book that the understanding of the Bible is a gift from the Holy Spirit. The proof? Read this: At that time, Jesus said to His Disciples: I go to Him Who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, where are You going? But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient that I go, for if I go not, the Helper – the Paraclete will not come to you, but if I go, I will send Him to you. And when He is come, the Spirit of Truth, He will teach you all things and reveal all truth, for He will not speak of Himself, but what things soever He shall hear, He shall speak, the things that are to come, He shall show you. He shall glorify Me because He shall receive of Mine and shall show it to you (John16:5-7,13-14). Absolutely, the Holy Spirit – the Spirit of Truth – the sweet Holy Paraclete teaches, reveals, and gives knowledge and understanding. Understanding therefore the words of the Bible – the Truth about God comes directly with the help of the Holy Spirit. So much so is the ability and the skill to use the words of the Bible to become personal or individual prayers. We all need to be aware that every sentence or statement in the Bible can implicate to imply personal or individual intention. Again, this ability and this skill are given by the Holy Spirit – unquestionable Truth! The inspired idea of this Prayer Book is to let Christians and all interested persons to know that you have been given and you have the power to ask the Holy Spirit to increase the ability in you, and to direct the skill you already have, to use the words, the sentences, and the statements in the Bible to suit personal or individual intention. I believe the supernatural force, which I can call the inspiration, behind my composition of Personalised Short Prayers from the Bible (PSPB), was the same force or inspiration that caused me to give my whole life to God through Jesus. The life full of prayers has been mine, causing, also the honours in my education from colleges to universities, to be possible. Initially, an Air Transportation Engineer, but I am completely accepted, and I am perfected of the Blessed, our Lord Jesus Christ. Whether a new Christian or from birth been a Christian, I implore you to go deep into the concept of Personalised Prayers from the Bible, so that you will run and not be weary and walk and not faint (Is40:31).

‘Dare we elevate kāinga as a way of achieving regionalised ecological accountability, and in the process can we bring humanity back into balance with the universe?’ Through his own experience and the stories of his tīpuna, Paul Tapsell (Te Arawa, Tainui) charts the impact of colonisation on his people. Alienation from kāinga and whenua becomes a wider story of environmental degradation and system collapse. This book is an impassioned plea to step back from the edge. It is now up to the Crown, Tapsell writes, to accept the need for radical change. The ecological costs of colonisation are clear, and yet those same extractive and exploitative models remain foundational today. Only a complete step-change, one that embraces kāinga, can transform our lands and waterways, and potentially become a source of inspiration to the world.