Happy 10th Anniversary to Duty2Delight Ministries! 🙌🏼🎉🎈💫🌈🙏🏽
When I think about what GOD has done over the past ten years, and even the pre-years leading up to the official birth of D2D Ministries, I can’t help but give GOD the glory!☝🏾🙌🏼💃🏾
Duty2Delight Ministries is dedicated to Christian discipleship, spiritual growth & development, and equipping & encouraging the Believer to live a transformed life in Christ through the Power of Prayer!🙇🏾♂️🙇🏽♀️
Our desire is to aways show and share the Love of Christ through his Word and Scripture based Prayer—holding fast to Faith, Truth, Love, Compassion and Obedience to God.
Our prayer is that every aspect of D2D Ministries will resonate with Believers around the world—illuminating the distinct difference between going to church out of duty, praying out of duty, studying the bible out of duty…while the JOY of actually Enjoying Jesus slips away from their daily lives. This is the Spiritual Crisis hiding in plain sight with many Believers today!
Thus, Duty2Delight Ministries was born in order to help reframe the mindset of Believers and shift their Christian lifestyle from obligation to invitation—“Are You Enjoying Jesus Yet?”
The devotionals and study guides provided through D2D Ministries are composed with focus scriptures, study questions, topical prayers, and reflection space to allow room for the reader’s own thoughts. As led by the Holy Spirit, Believers will incrementally and consistently experience transformation “From Duty to Delight”!
We’re Praising God for the past as we press on towards the future, standing on tiptoes of anticipation about what God will yet do in this NEXT Season!☝🏾🔥🙌🏼🙏🏽
We send out our Heartfelt “THANK YOU” to everyone who has supported D2D Ministries in some way, fashion or form over the years. Your continued generosity, prayers, and support are appreciated more than you know.🌹💗💜♥️🙏🏽
Here’s to many more wonderful years of serving God’s people! Love & Prayers, Mary A. Ford, Founder, D2D Ministries.
Heavenly Father, Thank you for your Word that is RIGHT and GOOD! For You are indeed a Promise Keeper!
Help us to hide your Word in our hearts so that we don’t sin against you. Give us a sincere desire & craving for your Word; for it is indeed sweeter than honey from the honeycomb!
Man’s word is like shifting sand, but Your Word will always stand—FOREVER! Your Word will never fail—when it goes out it will accomplish its intention and not come back void!
We are so grateful for your Word that’s a lamp unto our feet and a light to our pathway! Order our steps in your Word, Oh Lord! Lead us, Guide us each & every day! You are the Potter and we are the clay!
We desire to walk in your Will and not our own way so that we don’t go astray. Have Your Way today Yahweh! Hallelujah and Amen!📖🙏🏽~M. Ford
“With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! Your Word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.” (Psalms 119:10-11)
ADONAI, El Shaddai, YAHWEH is Your Name! Master, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY…Hear our humble CRY!
As we prevail in fervent prayer, fill the hunger and thirst within us with your Holy Spirit! Ignite our hearts with fire and desire to Live Holy and shod our feet with the preparation of the gospel so that we will not yield to nor walk in sin!
For we know that you are the only light of hope we have in this present darkness and the only remedy for our sin sick world.
I pray that the power of speech be given to us that we may open our mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel of Christ, for which we are Ambassadors.
I pray that the hearts of those in authority locally, nationally and globally will be turned back to You, Oh God!
I pray that we will be rooted and grounded in your Word, so that the scriptures will guide our decision making process in everything we attempt to accomplish.
I pray that the Holy Spirit will sweep across our land like a mighty rushing wind…setting our souls on fire with desire for more of You, consecrating our hearts, and freeing captive minds from Satan’s grip!
I pray that the saved will have holy boldness to witness, grace and compassion to serve, peace and patience to wait on God, and spiritual discernment not to fall for Satan’s tricks and traps!
I pray for the lost to come into the knowledge of Jesus’ saving grace and unconditional love and that they will flock into the House of Prayer seeking deliverance and restoration!
It’s In Jesus’ mighty and matchless name I pray this humble prayer…Hallelujah and Amen!🙏🏽~M. Ford
“Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD.” (Jeremiah 9:23-24)
Father God, no matter what the day has brought to us thus far we pause and give you praise!
We are very grateful for every opportunity to enter into your presence, and to intercede on behalf of our Nation and every other country and nation on the face of this earth.
Therefore, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, that they will prosper that love thee! We pray for these United States of America—our president, our vice president, and the entire current administration. We pray for our local and national leaders and all those in authority from our White House to our courthouses; from our church houses to our school houses; and even the headship of our own houses!
For you are the one who raise up leaders, and you are the one who will pull them down at the appointed time. In the meantime, and in between time, touch their hearts and their minds and regulate them to line up with your thoughts, and their actions line up with your divine will.
Have mercy upon these United States of America and draw us back to you; with leaders committed to doing it your way Yahweh! It’s in Jesus’s name I pray and plead his precious blood over us…Amen🙏🏽🇺🇸🙏🏽
Heavenly Father, Thank you for laying us down to sleep last night, allowing your Holy Spirit to rest upon us and giving us sweet sleep. Thank you for setting your Angels guard all around us and defusing the plans of the enemy so that no weapon formed will prosper against us!
We decree and declare Psalms 91 over our lives that as we dwell in the secret place, in the presence of the Most High GOD, we shall abide under the shadow of His protection.
Therefore, we shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrows that fly by day, Nor of the wickedness that walk in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lay wait at noonday. Although a thousand may fall at our side, and ten thousand at our right hand, we shall stand steadfast in our Faith—like a tree planted by a river, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED!
NO hurt, harm or danger shall come near us because you have given your angels charge over us, to keep us in all our ways; and in their hands they shall bear us up, lest we dash our foot against a stone!
NOW LORD, ENDOW Believers around the world this day with fervency, passion and a commitment to LIVE HOLY before a crooked and perverse generation!
Bring forth a GREAT SHAKING & AWAKENING that will roll across this land like wildfire to REVIVE US AGAIN—SETTING FREE CAPTIVES and SETTING HEARTS ON FIRE FOR CHRIST!
THANK YOU, ABBA, for hearing and answering this humble prayer…In Jesus’ mighty and matchless Name. Amen 🙏🏽~M. Ford
Do you truly think about God as being your heavenly Father?
If not, surrender to Him today whatever may be holding you back from completely trusting Him in the role of “Father”.
Allow God Himself to circumcise your heart and divinely heal all harmful, negative memories, thought-patterns, and/or experiences you perhaps had with your earthly father so that you can freely love and trust Him with all your whole heart as your Heavenly Father.
Once you truly know Him as “Abba”, your soul will then be eternally free to truly walk in obedience and live in His abundant blessings—FREE TO LOVE, LIVE and WORSHIP HIM in the full beauty of His holiness!🙏🏽~M. Ford
“In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.” (Matthew 6:9 NKJV)
Some people move away from their homelands looking for it—sometimes leaving friends and family behind. Others start new lives—facing unknown dangers in the pursuit of it.
Many fight against addictive demons—drugs, alcohol, over eating, smoking, perfectionism, pornography, and much more… all just for a taste of it.
Armies are trained to fight for it; and far too many die on foreign soil fighting in defense defense of it.
Then there are those who try every kind of “religion” imaginable striving to experience it.
More and more people seek to find it through financial independence and the continuous acquisition of material things.
We celebrate it in music, movies and paintings. Statues are erected in honor of it. Schools teach students to respect it. Leaders of countries deliver speeches about it. Riots break out and demonstrators march to voice frustration over not having it.
So, what is “IT” that could be so highly treasured, sought after, honored and revered? …FREEDOM!
But we will never find this “Freedom” apart from CHRIST and the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. This is Paul’s message in the book of Romans to the people then and to us today—He who God sets free through Christ is free indeed!
Without the help of the Holy Spirit, sin would continue to rule and reign in our mortal body and have the upper hand in our life.
He (The Holy Spirit) is our “secret weapon” to winning the fight within—and the war on SIN!
As we allow the Holy Spirit to lead, guide, direct and instruct us in living a God-fed and God-led life—this brings FREEDOM.
For the believer, this is truly a time of celebration! “FREE at Last, FREE at Last! Thank God almighty We are FREE AT LAST!”⛓️⛓️💥🙏🏽~M. Ford
“Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.” (Romans 6:6-7 NKJV)
Both pleasure and pain are both emotions we encounter along life’s journey. However, we can learn valuable life lessons from pain that pleasure can never teach us. From the bowels of sorrow wisdom can grow. Pain that doesn’t break us can stretch us to our fullest potential. God can use the pains of this life as reigns to draw us closer to Him. Although weeping may endure for a night, hold on and don’t throw in the towel because your story is still being written. There is purpose in your pain that words can never explain.🙏🏽~M Ford
“For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.” (Psalms 30:5 NKJV)
“Are You Enjoying Jesus Yet?” 