This week: Tues:
10-11 Zoom Huddle all welcome
noon-1230; 6:30pm Zoom prayer for Light in the Night:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9852381129?pwd=V2oXjq2YIpVu2btu0b7Nk4j2Bax7Wl.1&omn=84653669862
Meeting ID: 985 238 1129 Passcode: prayer
Wed: 10-12 Donut day at the Bread Ministry
6-8pm Dinner Huddle for adults and family ministries
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Good Morning Standing on the Rock, Abiding in the Vine, Fruit Bearing, Servants of the Lord! Please Lord! Help us to be fully Yours and these things! We are facing many things. Come! Be our Rock, our Deliverer, Our Strong Tower. May we stay connect to the Vine always and draw in Living Waters and fill us to overflowing that we may bless others with Your Love, joy, peace and help. Come! bring the Fruit of the Spirit alive in and through us! May we overflow with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Thank You! Come be our gentle shepherd and lead us through this week for Your glory. Come! Teach us to live and love more like Jesus. Help us to turn off all the noise and cast our anxiety upon you. Help us to receive your peace beyond understanding as You grow our faith and trust. Help us to breathe out the junk and breathe in a fresh breath of Your Spirit. Come! Help! Refine! Guide! Amen!
IDK what God has in store for today for me but it sure is flowing from rest as I slept over ten hours and am refreshed and ready for today (except for the dentist visit shortly to fill some cavities--YUK!) Sometimes God's best for us requires the drilling out of some rottenness and the patching over the holes in us to become healthy again and ready to continue our purposes. I had a bunch of devotionals to share today that I just put away. They all point to the same thing God is revealing to me today: Turn off the noise, walk away from the chaos, receive His grace and peace, listen for His still small voice in the storms, put on His armor and stand firm against the schemes of the enemy. God's got this. Release all to Him and take the next step of faith on your journey to Christlikeness. he knows you and all you are facing. He os calling you by name. he will deliver you and use you for His glory. Focus on Him and dwell in the Vine today. Allow Jesus, invite him to be, your Lord and Shepherd today. Amen Give all to God and watch what he will do as you grow in trust and obedience to the only One who really knows you and cares! he created you for such a time as this, is with you and has great plans for you. PTL! Amen!
Harvest:
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October 7 - DAY 11 OF 40 DAYS OF PRAYER FOR OUR NATION
Praying For The Lost To Know Christ
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“For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite’” (Isaiah 57:15 NIV).
Oswald Smith relates: “Several members of Jonathan Edwards’ church had spent the whole night in prayer before he preached his memorable sermon, ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.’ The Holy Ghost was so mightily poured out, and God so manifest in holiness and majesty during the preaching of that sermon, that the elders threw their arms around the pillars of the church and cried, ‘Lord, save us, we are slipping down to hell!’”
Not many churches are calling their people to spend an entire night in prayer seeking God in preparation for Him to show up in their midst. Yet, here we find a powerful example of just a few members of a church “preparing in prayer” prior to the preaching of a message about sin. And, the Spirit showed up so powerfully in Jonathan Edwards’ church that even church leaders were convicted of their sins.
Merciful Father, we are a sinful people saved by the grace of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ! You made this salvation possible through Your kindness and love. Help us not to be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds, so that by testing, we may discern Your good, acceptable, and perfect will. May the churches in our nation repentantly cry out to You as the Psalmist in Psalm 85:6: “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you!”
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“To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me” (Acts 26:18 NIV).
Jesus ties together prayer and evangelism in Matthew 9:37-38: “Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.’” The instruction of Jesus to His disciples regarding reaching the lost is that it begins with prayer. There is certainly more to do after we have prayed. But evangelism will never be truly effective apart from the biblical beginning place of prayer.
Dick Eastman said it this way: “God’s ultimate purpose for mankind, the completion of Christ’s bride and the establishing of His eternal Kingdom on earth will result only from the release of the prayers of God’s saints.”
In his book, Revival! A People Saturated with God, Brian Edwards emphatically states: “In times of revival Christians go out spontaneously. You cannot stop them. Nobody can stop them. Revival is a spontaneous combustion of evangelism. And this is one of the things we must long for when we long for revival.”
Lord of the Harvest, You love every person on the planet, and You have called us to go and make disciples of everyone we can! Show us how to focus on lost people in our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, and those across our nation! Give us the overwhelming love that You have for the lost, Lord Jesus. We want to see the lives of people transformed and our society changed because of it! We long for You to receive Your inheritance from the
Father – the nations!
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- Pray for the salvation of those who have yet to attain an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 3:8-9)
- Pray that God will remove the blinders that the Devil tries to put on the eyes and minds of unbelievers. (2 Corinthians 4:4)
- Pray to the Lord of the Harvest to raise up more workers to send into His harvest field. (Matthew 9:36-38)
- Pray that the Father will draw lost people to Himself. (John 6:44)
- Pray for the blessing and peace of God in every person’s life. Pray prophetically that God will work in every new believer’s life, and that the Holy Spirit will enable them to fulfill their redemptive purposes. (Philippians 2:13)
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