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How do you use memorial card poems for the deceased to help ease the grieving? When a loved one passes away, you need prayers and compassion. You hunger after seeing your precious friend or family member who is no longer with you. You desire to know how she is doing or where he is. The agony of missing his or her physical presence it is sometimes too painful to endure.

Losing a spouse, child or friend when death happens is a difficult time. When those special people, you have an empty feeling that nothing seems to fill. When death happens, you need a way to cope with the grief as you mourn. After reflecting upon the loss of my family members and what happens to them, I found a helpful way to understand their new way of life.

Grief is much easier to deal with when you have a faith-filled hope that a deceased loved one is connected to God and you in a relationship that may have changed, but has not ended. Funeral poems are used to help overcome shock right away. Memorial poems are becoming more and more popular to remember a deceased friend some time later after losing a loved one.

Do you think that modern magazines and TV shows show you a healthy picture of what happens when someone dies? I don’t think so. The trouble is that these publications focus on the negative - that things are getting worse. This is an outright lie - so don’t spend your time and money believing them. Just like when we are born. We leave the dark and dim home of our mother’s womb to discover a new home in a brighter, wider world. A new way to live. So we believe that there is a brighter and wider home beyond death - a new way and place to live after we die.

Those who follow Jesus Christ believe that He rose from the dead and now gives eternal life to all those who ask and follow Him. In the Gospel of John, Jesus told His friends that His Father’s house contained many rooms. Jesus promised His friends that He would go ahead and prepare room for them so that they could be with Him. Jesus’ promise is nearly twenty centuries or 2,000 years old.

Most people have disturbing thoughts after their loved ones die. Often, they ask the question, “When is my loved one coming home?” The trouble happens when they believe that their loved one is lost forever and will never, ever come back home.

The problem is that we just don’t realize that our loved ones may be right at home — home with God that is. And our hope, prayer and wish is that we want to join them again some day. After a loved one has died, using a poem for the deceased that helps us believe positive thoughts is priceless.

The new belief that can help us have peace is that death is like going through a door to enter a new home. That door opens into a brand new home, a new way of living forever with God and you. This is like moving into a new home that is more beautiful, bigger and happier. In any home, one of the best places to hang out and live is in the living room. So, if we think about our loved ones moving into God’s house after they die, we can imagine them spending time with God in God’s living room. They are still living, just in a newer and more beautiful place.

The love, faith and hope you have for your deceased loved ones grew throughout every day that you knew them. It will not stop now. And it doesn’t fall apart after death. No, as hard as it seems today, your connection gets stronger by including the unbreakable strand of God’s love. Your loved one is at home.

The last stitches of their life on earth have been sewn and the tapestry of their human life is finished. It is a marvelous picture that is now hanging the living room of God’s house. Your loved one is safe in God’s presence. Right now, you need to remember this and find a practical way, using memorial card poems for the deceased, to find hope and joy.

To find one inspirational poem for the deceased that can help you remember your deceased loved one at home with God in the tapestry of life,

Prayer is very important. There are medical studies linking both prayer and meditation with better health. People who pray on a daily basis have been found to experience lower blood pressure, less stress, stronger immune systems, less depression, to live longer and happier lives, etc… These are great benefits and should not be overlooked, but the reason for prayer is to communicate with, ask for help and forgiveness, and please God.

To pray correctly we must be sincere and pray from the heart. Jesus Christ was angered by the falseness of the local religious leaders and likened them to hypocrites - “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him (Mathew 6:5-8). Here Jesus Christ specifically states to pray in quiet, not to rant and babble like many priests and evangelists do. This is not sincere, as they are trying to impress their followers and stroke their egos with their impressive vocabulary. God is infinitely smarter than that and will not be impressed by incantations, repetition, and insincerity. He wants us to pray in private, not for show. God would much rather hear a prayer from someone meek and sincere.

We can pray about anything and there is nothing saying you can’t repeat requests. We should pray not only about what troubles us, but also for forgiveness and what we are thankful for - our families, good times, God’s help, etc… In Matthew 6:9-15 Jesus Christ gives us a great example of how to pray - The Lord’s Prayer - “This then is how you should pray:” ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we have forgotten our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Jesus Christ implies in the Lord’s Prayer that we need to forgive everyone. We have all sinned and all need forgiveness. We also need to be thankful for what God has given us. We may be poor, we may have a terrible boss or financial hardships, but we need to look through this and find the good. There is always some good we can reflect upon.

Prayer can be very benefitial when done correctly as God will actually hear and answer prayers and requests that are sincere, truthful, forgiving, and not full of earthly desires - this is coveting and is one of the ten commandments - “Thou shalt not covet.” When our prayers aren’t answered, maybe its because we weren’t praying for the right reasons or for what we really need. Remember, God knows and sees everything and loves all of us so much that he sent his only son Jesus Christ to die for us and our sins. Let us honor him by praying correctly and for the right reasons.

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Think back to when you were a child and you watched a friend or an older sibling ride a bicycle. You felt a desire start to build in you to be able to do that too. The more you saw them having fun riding their bicycle, the more desire you had to have one also. Finally you were able to persuade your parents to get you a bicycle.

With the help of a parent or older sibling, you learned to ride it. As your proficiency at riding a bicycle grew, your belief in your ability to do so became stronger. When your belief became very strong, you developed faith that you could do it any time you wanted to.

Once you had faith that you could ride a bicycle, you did so without much conscious thought. The same thing happens with everything that you believe you can do. When your belief in your abilities to do it becomes strong, you develop faith that you can do it whenever you want to.

The power of faith is greater than the power of knowledge, just as the CEO of an organization has more power than a junior manager. The power of faith is so superior to any technology that we presently have, that it is an injustice to equate faith with technology. When the power of faith is placed into action, the amount of work that we can accomplish becomes greater and greater, and whatever our purpose may be, we will positively scale the heights.

The power of our faith changes how we perceive the value of our abilities. If our belief in our capabilities is strong, we know that our ability will allow us to accomplish whatever we decide to undertake.

The power of faith is like the mystery of love. You know it is there, but you cannot see it. You feel it working and guiding you, but like the air that you breathe to sustain your life, it is not visible. Only the results of its presence prove its existence.

We think of faith as having the ability to move mountains (which it can), but the power of faith is as subtle as it is dynamic. The power of faith is relative to how much one truly believes something is possible. If you truly believe with every fiber of your being that you can do something, your mind will find a way to accomplish it.

A good example of this was Terry Fox, the one legged Canadian Hero who ran a marathon a day to raise money for the Cancer Society. Even professional marathon runners cannot run a marathon a day. However, this young man had faith that he could do it, and in all kinds of weather he ran a marathon a day for weeks, running from the east coast of Canada nearly to Thunder Bay where cancer over took him.

The power of faith is what miracles are made of. The power of faith is not seen in spectacular healing miracles or in getting people to laugh or make animal noises. It is seen in the everyday accomplishments of people who do things that no one expects them to be able to accomplish. However, they have so much faith in their capabilities that they confound their critics and accomplish something that seems to be impossible, like the blind man who climbed Mount Everest and the young university lad who was allowed to play the last few minutes of a basketball game and scored 27 points.

You too can do anything that you want to do if you develop faith in yourself. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot and do not doubt yourself for a minute.

Kevin Sinclair is the publisher and editor of my-personal-growth.com, a site that provides information and articles for self improvement and personal growth and development.

Prosperity Christianity has gotten a bad rap. A lot of people seem to think it means that for Christians to be rich, they have to have a lot of money or else God hasn’t fully blessed them.

After watching the recent events play out in the press, for stars like Mel Gibson, Britney Spears, and Jessica Simpson, I want to challenge this belief. Although these people claim to be Christians, what they’re really doing is living in a way that Wallace Wattles, in “The Science of Getting Rich”, called swinishly.

Now, we can argue over whether or not these people really are Christians. That’s not the point. The truth is, only God really knows the answer to that one, and it’s between Him and these individuals.

My point is this: is true prosperity for Christians really all about money?

For these three, I would say no.

Does this mean Christians shouldn’t have money? Again, no.

Christians should have money, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with getting financially prosperous and having a lot of money.

Joel Osteen certainly has a financially prosperous church and marketing experts and Christians like Lisa Diane and Jimmy D. Brown have certainly demonstrated that you can have a lot of money and be happy. And none of these three shy away from living their faith.

Money has its place. As T. Harv Eker says, “You can’t pay your bills with love”.

There are several keys to prosperity that Christians need to put first:

1. Make God number one in your life. Put Him first. “Do what you do for the glory of God.” As Christians, there’s a lot of things we can do with money to spread the gospel. We can be a blessing to others.

In the words of Wallace Wattles, “You owe it to God, to yourself, and to humanity to make the most of yourself.”

Understand that God has a purpose for blessing you with a lot of money. It’s not just about being able to ride around in limos, eat in fancy restaurants, and buy whatever you want. There’s a purpose.

2. Prosperity is about balance. In order to achieve true prosperity, you need to do a lot more than just make a lot of money.

The three areas Wallace Wattles says to concentrate on are mind, body, and spirit.

This means we need a strong focus on God. We need to build strong relationships with those we love. We need to achieve health, and we need to strengthen ourselves mentally and spiritually.

Get rid of your baggage, grudges, hatreds, and anything that’s holding you back. There’s tremendous power in forgiveness because you’re releasing something you shouldn’t hold onto anyway.

I truly believe that many people have died well before their time because they held onto painful events.

Let go of this garbage and replace it with positive belief.

God thinks you’re someone special, extraordinary, and unique. He deeply loves you so much that He made you in His image, and He sent his son, Jesus, to die for you on the cross so you could have a relationship with Him forever.

Talk about an offer you can’t refuse!

3. God put those desires in your heart. Remember, God is a creator, and He created us to have a relationship with Him. He also created each of us for a purpose.

Unless those desires in your heart are sinful, God put them there. So it’s time to go for it!

True prosperity isn’t just about money. True prosperity is about becoming everything you are meant to be, to do all you are meant to do, and to have all you are meant to have.

God has big plans and big dreams for you.

We were never meant to aspire to be God, we are to aspire to be like God. That makes us creators, and we can choose to create something great, or something that’s junk.

Stop living small. Stop dreaming small, and ask God to reign down His blessings on you. Ask for everything He wants you to have. If He didn’t believe you deserved it, He wouldn’t want to give it to you. He just can’t give you what you won’t accept.

Now dream big, live big, and open yourself up to having everything God wants you to have. When you do, what you will get will be far larger, far richer, and far better than just a big bank account.

Jinger Jarrett wants to show you how to live the life you’ve always dreamed of. You can read her blog, The Science of Getting Rich for Christians. Get her best free resources on changing your life at Squidoo.