When do you find time to connect with Jesus? If you aren’t intentional about it, everyday activities and responsibilities find a way to take over. Prayer can happen at any time, and of course it does, but there is value in setting aside some time in your morning to meet with the Lord and dedicate your day to his work. As you quiet yourself before him and meditate on these Scriptures, devotions, and prayers, experience his goodness and his perfect peace. When you prioritize Jesus above everything, other concerns fade. Hope dawns with the new day. Tender mercies fall fresh. Refreshment springs up from a well within. And you find the strength to walk through each day with God’s love in your heart and joy on your face.

Some of the poems in this book will bring you to tears. Others will make you erupt in laughter. Whatever your reasons may be for reading my book, you will be moved and you will find yourself picking up W.O.W. created w.o.w. often. It is my hope that it garners hope within your breast and reminds you of a HIGHER POWER! Whether this book helps you a little or a lot, please pass any blessings you receive from it, forward.

In 2018 Rick began challenging his congregation to pray twice each day at 7:14 AM/PM for our nation. The idea grew from the text: 2 Chronicles 7:14:” if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Rick began publishing a daily prayer entitled 7:14 each morning on Facebook and email list. This current book is a compilation of nearly 2,000 daily prayers/devotions Rick shared with the world daily.

Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

You will feel the inspiration of Jesus when you read the poems in this book. The poet points to a lifelong love of limericks as the influence behind his poetic endeavors. They are religious, largely inspired by his Christian upbringing. Although his first poem was written at the age of eighty-two, a desire to share his love for Jesus poetically has resulted in a large collection of poems not only about Jesus but also about everyday events in the long life of a dedicated Christian. The poet follows strict rules, so all the poems rhyme and are constructed that they make excellent lyrical and metrical subjects for reading to others.

Looking Forward . . . Take a Look at the Last 24 Hours . . . We know how valuable it could be to have a manual on the essentials of life on topics such as ‘Parenting: How to Bring Up Perfect People’ or ‘The Formula for Never Having to Say Goodbye’ or ‘Arriving at the Secret to a Never-fail Marriage’. The reality is there are no quick-fix booklets or a step-by-step instruction encyclopedia of sorts in existence, only helpful suggestions. Fully aware, my Husband and I co-authored this book to be messengers of God’s heart for such a stressful time everyone alive is facing. To the human race who has walked this journey of ups and downs, difficult struggles, heart breaking trials and perhaps even tasted some victories along the way, a journey called life…our hearts are purposed to extend anyhow, points we can join in to somehow encourage and to cheer You on across the Final Inch. When a runner nears the finishing line, all the stops are pulled out. All they can see is the ribbon and all they can think about is crossing that ribbon to victory. Think of this book as the “all-stops-pulled-out” and the focus is to take the final inch across the ribbon. “You can do it because God is with you all the way across the final inch!” The Last 24 Hours . . . It’s Inescapable . . . Captivating . . . Motivational.

It seems we seldom know what we should say when we pray; we only know we need to talk to our Lord. When we ask God for direction and allow Him to lead everythingincluding our prayer liveswe can rest in the knowing that we will be closer to our Lord each day. This book is written by a man that has asked God to help him praynothing glamorous, just simple, heartfelt, and tearful prayer.