If you’ve not already noticed, we have been blessed with lots and lots of children at our church. Children are awesome and a blessing from God. We need to pray for our children in our church, in our family and all the others we know.
From what I understand off our children’s workers, if you want to be where the action is you need to be in children’s work. They’ve seen salvation's, healing, visions miracles etc…. Amazing!!! We need to pray that we are seeing them grow in Christ and we want to see salvation and baptisms in our children. We also need to ask God for mercy and protection from the evil one for them. We need to pray for parents of young children as it can be a tough and lonely time. Pray for love, endurance, patience and wisdom for them as they parent their children. Pray also for the Children’s workers and give God thanks for them. They do the toughest, most sacrificial role in the church!!!! When most of the church is drinking their brews chatting with their friends, they will be packing up Children’s work, often on their own, after missing the beginning, middle and end of the service!!!! And that will be after spending hours and hours of preparation time during the week. Please pray for God to supply us more children’s workers as and if you're stirred come and have a chat with us! Please also pray for the mother and baby group led by Beth Smith at Bentham Road Surgery. Ultimately we want to step out in faith our children’s ministry growing in breadth and depth so please pray for Wisdom, faith and provision in this area. God is good!!! Helpful Bible Verses Psalm 127:3-5 Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court. Matthew 18:2-5 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. Matthew 18:10 See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. Proverbs 22:6 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
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We all know people who seemed to be going great with God and then slowly drifted away. It’s really, sad. ☹
It’s not technically impossible to be a Christian and not be part of a church however, it nearly is!!! It is also not God’s plan; Christ followers were designed to be part of a spiritual family and His people i.e. the Church. Often people aren’t at church because they have been legitimately hurt. From my experience more often than not, people aren’t at church because they just stopped going for a few weeks and no one chased them up. That’s really, tragic!! Make a list of people you know that may not be continuing with their faith or church. Pray for God to move in their life. You may need to repent over a sin of omission. Why don’t you give them a call and see how they are? If you are a prodigal and your reading this and you don’t go to church any more. We’re really, really sorry. Please forgive us if we’ve hurt you. But get your self back right with God and back to church Jesus is perfect, Jesus is good, Jesus is the way the Truth and the Life even when often we’re not. Helpful Bible Verses Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Colossians 3:16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. Friends are one of the greatest blessings of God (Isn’t God good). However, wouldn’t it be wonderful if they don’t know Jesus that we ask God to move in their life?
Make a list of all your friends and acquaintances and pray for them and in faith believe that God can work in their lives. You know the most loving thing you can do for you friends is tell them how brilliant Jesus. Why don’t you ask God to give you faith to invite them to an Alpha course or church?? What’s the worst that could happen? Why don’t you invite them for a meal or coffee? Ask the Holy Spirit to give you courage!!! Pray for your Christian friends as well as they need it just a much as you 😊 Helpful Bible Verses John 15:13 Greater Love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. Families are one of Gods greatest blessing to us whatever format they come in.
However life in families can be tough. They are the people around us who can bring us most joy in life and also the most worry, heart ache and tears. We so, so need Gods rule and reign more in our family life!!! Try praying for more fruit of the spirit in our families: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We also need to pray for the members of our families who don’t know Jesus, that God will be merciful and gracious to them and also the Holy Spirit shows us ways we can show the love of God in our lives towards them. Helpful Bible Verses 1 Corinthians 13:8 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Galatians 5:22-23 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control I don’t know about you, but I just want to see God move more and more in people’s lives. I want people to know Jesus because He is amazing and He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
The news we have is Good News!!! Because God is good!!! Don’t you want to see more and more people coming to know Jesus as Lord and Saviour of their lives. Christ is the hope of the world and the answer to all situations. If we want to see that, we need to pray and ask God for it. We can’t make new Christians, that’s Gods job, but we can sow seeds for the Kingdom and be ready to give an account of what Jesus has done in our lives!! Lets pray for God’s Holy Spirit to make us lovingly bold in sharing this Good News of the Kingdom. Lets pray for a Harvest!!! 😊 Helpful Bible Verses Matthew 28:18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Mark 16:15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” |
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