✝️ “Making Time to Think”

A Steeler Nation Slam-Style Spoken-Word Prayer
(Philippians 4:8 • Song of Solomon)

I pray in Jesus Christ✝️ name as Your Holy Spirit dwells…
For a spiritual ear among us to reflect
to hear what You’re already saying.

Because clarity doesn’t come from noise in this world.
Nor ambiance
Or Natural entertainment
Or fancy food
It first comes from making room at the banquet table in Your✝️ House⛪️
Dining among 👍🏾each other🕊️ on Your✝️ Word
Spiritual nourishment that brings greater appreciation for the naturally
So now Lord through my thoughts
May we reflect
Through my words
May they grab hold of her 🕊️ heart
Indeed may my actions be reinforced with sincerity.

I understand as well Lord,
we don’t always make time to think.
We rush decisions.
We fill silence.
We confuse motion with progress.
While competing factors of the mandatory
causes concern of regress

But You invite us differently.
You invite us to pause.
To consider.
To sit with what is True✝️
As the only way to remain on one accord,
before anything becomes defined.
It answers the question among us:
What do we think?

Your Word in Philippians 4:8
Helps us out as we think on
what is true,
What is honest,
What’s just,
purely lovely and worth
the discussion?
It’s only found in your 🕊️church⛪️
Through thoughts shaped by God✝️’s Love
and disciplined by truth.

Like Your✝️ Song speaks quietly,
“I am the rose of Sharon,
the lily of the valleys.”
Just existing where You placed it —
secure,
seen,
and becoming purposeful.

Lord, we don’t want to imagine outcomes
You haven’t revealed.
We don’t want to speak endings
You haven’t written.

So we sit under the shade You provide,
learning how to be still
And if I’m honest How to chill
without being distant,
Yet present without pressure.

Because Your✝️ Love
does not rush formation.
It nurtures it like, keep reading!
And as You✝️ continue to grace 👍🏾us🕊️
Keep 👍🏾us🕊️ interceding
For that which is good, perfect,

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Bring us into that banquet-house —
to recognize the invitation.
A place where encouragement doesn’t demand answers.
A place where peace teaches patience.
A room where Your✝️ Love
covers thoughts before actions ever follow.

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Lord, help us make time to think
without rehearsing fear.
To reflect without replaying old wounds.
To imagine what could be
only as far as You✝️ allow.
Since it’s all preparation anyway
Help our minds be guarded,
not crowded.
Focused,
not forced.

And if anything is formed,
let thoughtfulness
Govern our actions
If anything grows,
let it be discernment.
If anything flows
Let it be Your✝️ Word lived among us
If anything settles,
let it be peace shaped by God✝️’s Love
and anchored in Christ✝️.

Because when You lead the mind,
the heart doesn’t panic.
And when You guide our thinking,
our steps will follow in time.

So tonight we rest here —
thinking rightly,
waiting wisely,
trusting fully.

Not ahead of You.
Not behind You.
Just with You✝️.
As I think about You

In Jesus Christ✝️ name we pray and give thanks. Amen. 🕊️