Posts Tagged ‘ Prayer ’
Why am I so depressed?
Psalm 42:5, HCSB
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
God should be our greatest desire, and sometimes we focus on something else or He is calling us to think of others with His love and will by allowing sadness, depression, and anxiety. Prayer and praise to our Savior will restore our desire.
I thirst for God, the living God.
Psalm 42:2, HCSB
When can I come and appear before God?
God should be our greatest desire, and coming into His presence through reading the Bible, prayer, and being with the Church are the start. Our hope is eternity through Christ.
I preached again!
This week I finished Paul’s opening prayer and introduction to the church in Philippi, and it was the realization of how much he wrote “prayer” that adjusted this message. (Spoiler alert: prayer is paramount.)
As usual, my PowerPoint is provided below.
Daniel
I found out about a 7.8 earthquake on Sunday on the southern end of the Philippines when I noticed a major dip in my blog views. I have a large audience from that area, so their inability to get online and subsequent absence from my views alerted me to look up the area.
If you have not seen the destruction from buildings collapsing and tsunami damage, they are in pretty bad shape.
Let us lift up the entire region, that they may recover quickly, mourn those lost well, and find comfort in Christ and His Church during this time. Pray for those searching for missing people, strength to endure, and help to come quickly.
Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
James 5:13, HCSB
God has a purpose for everything and everyone. We are to give God praise and lift each other up in prayer and by His Word.
Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:2, CSB
God deserves our thanks, and we find our thankfulness increases as we focus on God and giving Him our gratitude.
Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
James 5:13, CSB
We are in a spiritual war, and our prayers for each other and praises to God help us while pushing back against evil and demonic forces.
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”
Matthew 9:37-38, CSB
We love the Church, for we are sent out by God to reach people for Christ as the Body of Christ, encouraging each other to rely on Hod who is already working in the harvest.
“Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”
Matthew 9:38, CSB
Love should push us to pray for the lost and be willing to take the gospel to them
In the West, we are not as aware of what persecution against Christians is like. Pastors get comfortable, congregants are often apathetic (largely due to ignorance), and and non-regular attenders and non-Christians rarely care enough about to if they know of it to check. Many in our culture may even come across disagreement or inconvenience and think faith is not worth it.
Extreme persecution still happens. When people are so desperate for Christ that they willingly face violence and hatred but we prefer to stay comfortable, it shows the disparity as well as why Jesus said it is so hard for the wealthy to enter the Kingdom (Matthew 19:16-29; Mark 10:17-30; Luke 18:18-30). Even most of our poor and homeless are better off than half the world.
Let us pray for Jimmy’s work and that the pastors and others he teaches remain faithful and strong in the Lord.
Daniel
This is a report from the field.
Ministry Travels lesson: Forced to live in Prison Restroom but privileged to preach the Gospel
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a simple man of God 