“For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 12:50, CSB
God wants to give us all good things according to His will, and that includes a family who is united in the love, grace, forgiveness, and Christ.
We launched our Sunday “prayer corner” nearly three years ago, only the elders taking turns being the primary contact. A year and a half ago, we started a midweek prayer group. It actually took us a while to have this same thought as today’s exhortation. Today, our deacons lead the prayer corner with other volunteers, and midweek is facilitated by volunteers. (We elders still participate in both! I rarely make the prayer meeting due to youth group being at the same time.)
Pray for congregational prayer.
Daniel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray for the church’s prayer meetings ahead of time.
This Sunday at Church: Pray for the church’s prayer meetings ahead of time
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Matthew 7:8, CSB
God wants to give us all good things, especially forgiveness and eternal life. Ask for His gifts, and share them with others.
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
1 John 3:16, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, knowing Christ paid for our eternal rest through His agonizing death because of His love for us.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, being thankful for and sharing His goodness and love that gives us est from fear and worry.
He protects his flock like a shepherd; he gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them in the fold of his garment. He gently leads those that are nursing.
Isaiah 40:11, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, knowing we await the perfect rest of God’s loving care, walking in His guidance and to those who are wandering astray.
Nations will come to your light, and kings to your shining brightness.
Isaiah 60:3, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, taking His light to this dark world to show them rest from sin, anxiety, and fear.
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time.
1 Timothy 2:5-6, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, sharing the rest from sin and anxiety found in the forgiveness and reconciliation of Christ.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, knowing He renews our hearts with His Holy Spirit, giving us rest from fear, hate, and trying to be good on our own.
We may be seeing a revival before our eyes, but like the early Church in Acts and later, we keep facing people telling us to stop speaking in this Name, or at least say everything the same way everyone else is.
May we be bold and seek our King, knowing He set the example and has called us to boldly proclaim the gospel, especially when the world hates us.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church: Pray for Christians in the West as Biblical Values are deem as Hate Speech.
This Sunday at Church: Pray for Christians in the West as Biblical Values are deem as Hate Speech
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