Please say a prayer for Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson.

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I was very saddened by what I heard earlier today regarding Paris. It is being reported that she has attempted suicide and is now at the hospital receiving all of the necessary care and is holding up well. However, it is no secret that these past years without her father have been very difficult. A lot of pressure is put on her daily. Please lift her up in your prayers, along with anybody else who has lost a parent and/or tried to take their own life before.

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“Before you ask Allah for what we need, take your time to thank Him for what you have.”

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I think we all need to say a prayer for those who were denied fatherhood. Today is their day too. Whether they lost the child to miscarriage or abortion, they are fathers nonetheless.

“Backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.”

—J.C. Ryle

“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”

—L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

If you want to break the sin habit, you need to establish a prayer habit.

“O Allah, prolong my life so I can live up to Ramadan”

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“The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives- altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. But what I have come to see is that God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture. We do not have to be bright, or pure, or filled with faith, our anything. That is what grace means, and not only are we saved by grace, we live by it as well. And we pray by it.”

—Richard Foster, Seeking the Kingdom
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