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Spending quiet moments to reflect and renew at the end of your day can bring you untold inner serenity. Home, family, friends, and neighbors--these are a woman's "garden," her sphere of influence. Quin Sherrer shows you how to cultivate and tend your garden to reap a bountiful spiritual harvest. Based on Sherrer's own personal experiences, these delightful, sometimes heartrending stories will encourage you to gain the most from each day--no matter how chaotic or ordinary it may seem at the time. Do you feel overworked? Or somehow out of balance? Are you too often fearful, angry, or unforgiving? Quin Sherrer has been there, too, and emerged stronger than ever with the help of the Lord. Good Night, Lord is the perfect way to end your day and begin tomorrow renewed!

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	15 mars 2000
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441268679
Langue	English

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Quin Sherrer captures the hearts of women of all ages as she shares from her life’s experiences to help women reach their destiny. Her love for women shines through to give hope and encouragement in their daily walk with God. The prayers at the end of each devotional are simple yet profound and reflect the heart of God.
BETH ALVES
INTERCESSORS INTERNATIONAL BULVERDE, TEXAS
Quin Sherrer’s Good Night, Lord is stimulating reading. She expertly tells stories of friends, and very delicately weaves in stories of her own family that will bring life to many struggling women.
BOBBYE BYERLY
DIRECTOR OF PRAYER AND INTERCESSION WORLD PRAYER CENTER COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
Good Night, Lord is a book of powerful insights and tender prayers. Quin Sherrer gently reminds us of our faithful God who cares deeply about our hopes, our joys, our sorrows and every moment of our day.
ALICE GRAY
AUTHOR OF STORIES FOR THE HEART REDMOND, OREGON
Quin Sherrer simply and eloquently helps women to understand our utter, everyday dependence upon a God who answers prayer. She demonstrates that nothing is too big—or too small—to bring to the Lord. His love for us shines through these pages.
ESTHER S. ILNISKY
ESTHER NETWORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S GLOBAL PRAYER MOVEMENT WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
Good Night, Lord is one of the most comforting books I have ever read. If you have children of any age, it will be a great blessing to you. The pages seem to open up and embrace you with the love of God.
CINDY JACOBS
COFOUNDER, GENERALS OF INTERCESSION COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
Quin Sherrer, with her lovable transparency, welcomes us into her walk with God. You will find here humor, wisdom and truths for life. You may want to start each day with this book.
MIRIAM NEFF
AUTHOR AND COUNSELOR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Good Night, Lord radiates with the warmth of a mother’s heart. Quin Sherrer, a spiritual mother to a multitude of praying women around the world, will take you by the hand and lead you on a private journey through the pages of her heart and the stages of her life. You will both witness and be challenged to experience a life of intimacy with the Father.
ALICE SMITH
PRAYER COORDINATOR, U.S. PRAYER TRACK HOUSTON, TEXAS

2000 by Quin Sherrer
Published by Chosen Books 11400 Hampshire Avenue South Bloomington, Minnesota 55438 chosenbooks.com
Chosen Books is a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan. www.bakerpublishinggroup.com
Chosen edition published 2014
ISBN 978-1-4412-6867-9
Previously published by Regal Books
Ebook edition originally created 2013
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version ®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
Other versions used are:
AMP. —Scripture taken from THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE, Old Testament copyright © 1965, 1987 by the Zondervan Corporation. The Amplified New Testament © 1958, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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Some names and locations have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.
Cover Design by Kevin Keller Interior Design by Rob Williams Edited by Deena Davis
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Woman’s Field of Influence
PART ONE
PRAYING THROUGH ORDINARY DAYS
Waiting Prayers
A Christian Home
No One at My Table
Peace to This House
At Least Once a Week
Mealtime Blessings
Traditions
Honor to Moms
A Lesson in Ink
Going Home to Mother’s
His Voice Gently Speaks
Company’s Coming
Ode to a Garage
Marriage-Go-Round
Out-of-the-Ordinary Days
Career and Motherhood
Letter to a First Grader
Get Out of His Way
My Hope with His Frog
My Last First Grader
An Extra Child to Love
A Child’s Mentor
What Will I Be?
Unconditional Love
A Mother’s Desire
Praying Grandparents
Anyone Home?
Bless the Grands
The Next Generation
Need a Miracle?
Sour Days Turn Sweet
Another Woman
Reaching Her Neighbors
A Mutual Friend
Five Blessings
Pass the Prayer Mantle
PART TWO
PRAYING THROUGH BATTLE DAYS
Remember Roses
Boundaries and Balance
Avoiding Pitfalls
Saying No to Addictions
Dealing with Low Self-Esteem
Fear Versus Faith
Keep an Eye on the Ark
God’s Timing
Life’s Rhythm with Balance
Be Prepared
Sin Always Affects Others
Our Military Personnel
Spiritual Weapons of Authority
Safeguard Your Home
Prayers for Our Children
Me, a Coward?
Something to Cherish
Stretcher Bearer for God
Releasing a Friend on Earth
Prayerwalking
Praying for Unsaved Friends
Broken Marriage
Dying Without the Savior
Call for Help
God Longs to Speak to Us
Neighborhood, City and Nation
A Significant Time
Aim on Target
PART THREE
EXPERIENCING VICTORY DAYS
When Our Mountain Moved
Roots and Heritage
Legacy of Love
Give Children to God
My Promise Shell
Prodigals Come Home
Covenant-Keeping God
In an Instant
You Are Him Here
In Remembrance of Him
Praying for a Dying Stranger
A Voice from the Past
Another Birthday
Who Are Your Friends?
Prized Prayer Partners
The News Speaks
A Stranger Blesses My Day
Applying the Blood
Forgiveness Is a Choice
Taken for Granted
People or Things?
A Dream Fulfilled
How to Reach Them?
One Mother’s Idea
God’s Embroidery
Leaving a Prayer Legacy
He Is Not Here
No Bread from Stone
Please Pray with Me
Dream House
Full Circle
What’s the Takeaway?
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to bless and thank Bob Hudson, editor emeritus of the Star Advocate newspaper, Titusville, Florida, for allowing me to be a reporter, feature writer and columnist for him in my early journalism days. Best of all, he let me work so that I was home when my children were out of school. He gave me exciting and satisfying assignments—interviewing astronauts and celebrities who came to the space launches, covering all 16 local schools and writing features on people in their everyday walks of life. One day I asked if I could write more about how faith in Jesus changes lives in our community. He gave me a full page every Friday for a “religion” section. Not only did I write personal testimonies, but my column “Good Night, Lord” was birthed. He was a rare boss. Thanks, Mr. Hudson.
I also thank my husband, LeRoy, and our three children, Quinett, Keith and Sherry, for their continued support of my writing career over the years. I pray that my grandchildren—Kara, Evangeline, Lyden Benjamin, Victoria Jewett and Samuel—will use the stories I’ve shared as a challenge to follow and serve God faithfully all their lives.
To Deena Davis, my editor, and Regal’s Kyle Duncan, Bill Greig III, Kim Bangs and Billie Baptiste, who believed in this book, a big THANKS.
To two pastors who greatly influenced my spiritual life—Pastor Peter Lord and Pastor Dutch Sheets. May God Himself reward you.
To you readers, I pray God will stir in you a desire to go to Him in prayer each night with whatever is on your heart. He’s always waiting to listen, comfort, reassure and answer.
INTRODUCTION

OF INFLUENCE
Every woman, at one time or another, ponders the question of her significance—we all want to make a difference in the lives of our families and the people God brings across our paths. We desire to have a positive, encouraging and uplifting effect on others.
The truth is, no woman’s life is insignificant. Each of us has a specific sphere of influence and a unique journey God intends for us to take. With the different roles we assume and the ever-changing circumstances in which we find ourselves, the road changes.
Someone once said that every time you encounter another person, you both receive either a charge to or a drain on your spiritual battery. No one has a neutral effect on others. Each of us continually exerts influence—to bless or wound, to help or hurt. No matter how ordinary you may think your life (or how chaotic), you not only have a sphere of influence, but you also have the potential to move spiritual mountains through your consistent and persistent prayers for those you influence.
Over the years I’ve come to believe it is every woman’s responsibility to recognize her field of influence, to tend and bless it, to defend it in prayer and, as a result, to experience the harvest God will bring.
My field of influence has changed with the seasons of my life. Yours will, too. Changes could include marriage, rearing children, a career, an empty nest, retirement, possible widowhood. But no matter how your field widens or narrows, you will have some type of influence over it.
Once when reading a passage of Scripture about one of David’s mighty men, Shammah, whose name means “God is there,” I was struck with