Good Morning! What an amazing day we experienced in our building twice ! PTL! And keep praying for God to use us and draw many. Thank Him for His provisions and guidance and for drawing in the harvest. Pray that the Gospel will go forth with great effect and that revival would arise in our neighborhoods! AMEN!
Thanks TEAM!We are God's chosen, loved, empowered team that really does live and love like Him and many are feeling that love and finding hope and help and becoming open to the working of the Holy Spirit as God draws and saves while we seed, water and fertilize. The harvest is arising! PTL! Keep praying for workers and the harvest and for God to become known by many more and glorified in and through us! He has a part just for you too! PTL!
we served 80ish neighbors. We had very little bread and had to limit what people got, yet God is our provider and we had enough and a little leftovers to share. (Just like the loaves and fish or the oil for the lamps that didn't run out! PTL!) We had just enough cookies and donuts too as we blew through 8 doz. donuts and 4 doz. cookies and they made it until almost the last person arrived. Keep thanking and praying for His provisions and for us to steward them well. He is blessings, providing and guiding us! Amen! we had around 40 for dinner huddle and just enough food for that as well. PTL! We are practicing Acts 2:42 as we gather, fellowship, study, and pray. We only have a few more weeks of that. Pray for a strong finish to 2025, rest and readiness for what God has in store for 26.
Pray we are ready to be like wicks in '26 and soak up the oil to be His lamp shining bright in the darkness. Pray we are His firesticks in '26...lighting the revival fires! Pray we fulfill our purposes and spiritual mixes in '26! Pray we are His bricks in '26 being built into His temple! And keep praying we come alive in '25! And thank God for how that has been growing this year!
Check out the Connection Blogs and Sarah Evans devos below as they thread through this. God is on the move! PTL! He is providing and guiding and using us! PTL! His love, hope and help are bubbling up and overflowing Living Waters from us! PTL! That is all coming alive in '25. Thank Him for that and keep praying into the year ahead that we would have many dreams and vision from God coming to life in and through and around us! Yes we are His firesticks and bricks! Lighting the way and rebuilding torn down walls! PTL! And we are like wicks soaking up the oil to be His lamps! May the Light shine forth and drive back the darkness! PTL! Thank God for using us and for our teams and prayer warriors! God is hearing and answering! PTL! Light those fires from you knees and go stoke the embers to roaring flames with your moving feet! Amen! Follow His Spirit! He has great plans for you and us! Amen!
Sarah Evans
Connection Blogs:
- The Ministry of Prayer is Open to All!
Jesus gave His disciples vision and passion. He also gave them an impossible task: to make disciples of all the nations. They were commissioned to win the world. But Jesus warned them, “Behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49).
And the disciples did stay in Jerusalem. They waited and prayed. Why did Jesus want them to remain in Jerusalem with such a great ahead of them? There was a world that desperately needed the gospel. Why should they wait in prayer?
I believe there are three reasons that Jesus established prayer as a priority for the early church. First, their vision and passion for a world could only be maintained by prayer. As they spent time with the Father in prayer, they would feel what He felt and see what He saw.
Leonard Ravenhill said, “The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer. The ministry of preaching is opened to few; the ministry of prayer—the highest ministry of all human offices—is open to all.”
Second, not only is vision maintained by prayer, but hearts are prepared to receive the message of Christ through prayer. The gospel is eternal and spiritual in nature. Therefore, we must pray that spiritual eyes be opened.
Third, God will not only open hearts to the gospel, but He will also empower the proclaimer of the message of Christ. There is a radical difference in the pre-Pentecost and post-Pentecost lives of the disciples. Peter, the cowardly denier of Jesus, became the bold preacher of Jesus. A new sense of courage characterized the early Christians in Acts. We must realize, however, that their boldness was the fruit of their prayer lives.
Precious Holy Spirit, You give vision and passion to those who long to seek God in prayer for the sake of and advancement of the kingdom through the preaching of the gospel. Thank You that You trust me with the “highest ministry of all human offices” – the ministry of prayer, and may I be courageous and bold as I intercede, so that spiritual eyes are opened and hearts are prepared to hear and the good news of Jesus Christ and respond to His love.
--Adapted from The Prayer Factor by Sammy Tippit.
Prayer Points
Praise God that your sighing is not hidden from him (Ps. 38:9).
Give thanks that you can cast all your care on him because he cares for you (1 Pet. 5:7).
Confess to God the many times you worry, are fearful, or trust in something other than God (Ps. 37:5-6).
Commit yourself to daily food from God’s Word and time with him in prayer.
Ask God for victorious faith that overcomes the world (1 Jn. 5:4).
Pray that your church will be living proof of the fact that God fulfills the desires of those who fear him (Ps. 145:19).
Prayer Points taken from Patterns for Prayer by Alvin VanderGriend. This book is available at prayerleader.com. Use the code CONPSP3 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount.
One of the deadliest wildfires in US history decimated the town of Lahaina, Hawaii, in , killing ninety-nine people and destroying more than two thousand buildings. Still reeling from the devastation, residents experienced additional trauma when some looters pillaged buildings and greedy realtors attempted to gobble up land.
The corrupt desire to take advantage of tragic circumstances is the backdrop of a strong message from God to the nation of Edom. The prophet Obadiah warned the Edomites, Israel’s enemies for generations (Ezekiel 35:5), of God’s coming justice because the Edomites used their geographic advantage (Obadiah 1:3) and acquired wealth (v. 6), alliances with other nations (v. 7), wisdom (v. 8), and military strength (v. 9) to exploit the weak. Obadiah also rebuked the way Edom gloated as Israel was sent into captivity. Instead of compassion, Edom looted Israelite homes and marched through defeated cities in victory (vv. 12-13).
Although Lahaina residents saw despicable actions, they also experienced kindness when churches on the island became hospitality centers offering shelter, hot meals, and emergency supplies.
When someone is suffering, we face a similar choice. We can try to benefit from their loss. Or we can respond in the way God desires, like the churches in Lahaina, with kindness and generosity.
By Lisa M. Samra
REFLECT & PRAY
When have you been tempted to take advantage of someone’s suffering? How does God’s love compel us to kindness?
Dear God, please help me extend kindness when someone is hurting.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
Edom’s betrayal of Israel cuts even deeper than one nation taking advantage of another nation’s plight (Obadiah 1:1-13). The nation of Edom descended from Jacob’s twin brother, Esau (Genesis 25:24-30). The tension between the brothers continued throughout their lives, but it’s epitomized in Jacob stealing Esau’s birthright and blessing from their father (25:29-34; 27:1-41). That family tension continued to plague Jacob’s descendants (Israel) for centuries (see Numbers 20:14-21).
The prophecies in Obadiah condemn Edom for rejoicing in God’s judgment against Judah and exploiting their vulnerabilities (Obadiah 1:12-14; see Amos 1:11-12). When someone is suffering, we honor God when we respond with kindness and generosity instead of exploitation.
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