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For
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Issue 244
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This Issue:
THE GOOD NEWS AMID THE BAD NEWS
HOW SHOULD I DEAL WITH MY ANGER?
THE MICAH CHALLENGE
KAY WARREN: FOLLOWING CHRIST MEANS BEING 'SERIOUSLY DISTURBED'
BAD TIMES DRAW BIGGER CROWDS TO CHURCHES
MARCH 22 IS WORLD WATER DAY
POLL: RISE IN AMERICANS WITH NO RELIGION
Pray For A Brother Today – Daily Blessing Pact
Classifieds
Favorite Websites
Much, Much More!
“God
did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of
love, and of self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7
CONSIDER
“Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy,
however harmless it may appear to me.”
~A. W.
Tozer~
THE GOOD NEWS AMID THE BAD NEWS
What the
recession makes very, very clear, if you can see it.
by John
Ortberg
We posted a position for our church on Craigslist
recently. We got 140 applications. The Dow Jones is down. NASDAQ
is down. Housing values are down. Venture capital is down.
Consumer confidence is down. Employment is down. Auto industry is
down. Commercial real estate is down. Foreign markets are down. Is
anything going up? Some things are.
The opportunity to
serve people in need is going up. The opportunity to trust God
when trusting isn't easy is going up. The opportunity to build a
faith that will last when the storms of life hit it is going up.
The opportunity to help our churches become communities where
people actually we get real with each other and love and support
each other is going up.
We know this is true because
certain truths remain unchanged:
God remains sovereign. The
blood of Jesus is still more powerful than the stain of sin. The
Holy Spirit still guides confused church leaders. The Bible is
still the word of God. The tomb is still empty. Prayers still get
answered. Love still beats bigotry. Hope still trumps despair. The
church is still marching. The Kingdom is still alive and well, and
does not need to be bailed out by a stimulus package.... Read this
in full
at
http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/currenttrendscolumns/leadershipweekly/goodnewsamidbadnews.html
WORK AT IT
“All the traditional disciplines, like
setting aside time for prayer and fasting, keeping periods of
silence, or denying ourselves certain legitimate creature comforts
-- these disciplines all have the same character: they are not
ends in themselves, but a means of replacing faulty desires with
the desire for God.
“Retraining ourselves to do what
is right is just like physical exercise, and we have to work at
it. Paul tells us that physical exercise is good, but spiritual
exercise is far more important. Sin comes naturally; holiness
doesn't. It requires the constant supervision of the Holy Spirit
and constant prayer, study of the Word, and discipline of the
individual Christian. But soon we find we can't live without it.
We hunger more for virtue than for vice.” Charles W. Colson,
The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, and Why
It Matters
HOW SHOULD I DEAL WITH MY ANGER?
by
Adrian Rogers
When you’re quick to get angry, you can
lose so much -- your job, friends, children, wife, health,
testimony -- there’s nothing more debilitating to your
Christian testimony than for you to fly off the handle.
Confess
Our Anger
If we repress our anger rather than confess it, our
anger can do all kinds of damage. You may say that you're not
angry but your stomach will keep the score. So, the first thing
you must do to control your anger is to confess it to the Lord.
Tell Him, "There's something moving in me I don't like. And I
need You to take control of me and prevent me from acting
uncontrollably or unrighteously."
Consider Our Anger
When you take a step back from your anger and begin to seek
understanding from the Lord, He will show you the answer. It is so
important to analyze the source of your anger, so you don't go off
half-cocked. Psalm 4:4 says, "Stand in awe, and sin not:
commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still."
God promises He will show us the way if we will seek Him.
"I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with Mine eye" (Psalm 32:8). And
don't look around at the world to see how they are handling it,
look to God. Romans 12:2 says, "And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God."
Control Your Anger
Now, you're ready to
work on controlling your anger. You say, "I can't control
it." Oh, yes you can. One day you may be having one of those
discussions that can be heard about two blocks away and suddenly
the phone rings. One of you stomps over to the phone, jerks it off
its base, and says, "Hellooooo." Now, don't tell me you
can't turn it on and off. You can! Proverbs 29:11 says, "A
fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till
afterwards." Fools spout off anything and everything, but a
wise man can choose to control his tongue.
http://www.christianity.com/home/faq%20features/11555743/
NEW BOOK SUMMARY ONLINE
Faith & Doubt by John Ortberg.
The beliefs that really matter, Ortberg writes, are the ones that
guide our behavior. While it is easy to think of doubt as the
polar opposite of faith, he says, we must realize that questions
can expand our understanding, uncertainty can lead to trust, and
honest faith can produce outrageous hope. See the detailed summary
of this book
at
http://www.christianbooksummaries.com/archive.php?v=5&i=5
Purchase
your copy
at
http://www.christianconnectionbooks.com/index.php?module=viewitem&item=90133
LOVE LIFE LIVE LENT
Love Life Live Lent book and booklets
contain over 40 simple things to do during Lent: one action for
each day. These actions help us to transform our world -- locally,
nationally and globally. With separate booklets for kids and for
adults/youth, a book for families and supporting resources for
churches and schools, everyone can get involved. (Also on Twitter
at http://twitter.com/c_of_e)
http://www.livelent.net/
THE MICAH CHALLENGE
This Lenten Season, pary for our world
to be made new. Gather your family, friends, neighbors, and church
members to pray for the poor and vulnerable who have been hardest
hit by the global economic crisis -- download the public prayer
for Justice, Mercy, and Humility below. While each of us is
affected by these hard times, it is the people around the world
living on less than $1/day, facing hunger, thirst, and often
illness who bear the greatest burden. You can use the Millennium
Development Goals as a guide for issues to pray about.
Ways
to Be the Answer:
Reflect on the need for renewal using the MDG prayer guide. Order the guide.
Publicly pray the Prayer for Justice, Mercy, and Humility in church, at the dinner table, or on campus.
Educate your community about the most crucial needs in our world. Find Bible studies, movie lists, and other activities at the URL below.
Advocate for wealthy nations to pledge financial aid to the most impoverished nations at the G20 meeting in April.
Join Micah Challenge and thousands of other Christians in Washington, DC for the culmination of the "Be the Answer" campaign at the Sojourners Mobilization to End Poverty, April 26-29. Register at www.sojo.net
Give more to organizations working to achieve the MDGs. For a great list of trusted organizations check out the Micah Challenge USA members
Tell others about this campaign. Download a one pager with all the details for participation in this Lent Campaign.
http://www.micahchallenge.us/take_action.shtml
CONSIDER
“It has become appallingly obvious that our
technology has exceeded our humanity.”
~Albert
Einstein~
KAY WARREN: FOLLOWING CHRIST MEANS BEING
'SERIOUSLY DISTURBED'
Becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ means
being willing to say "yes" unconditionally to God,
knowing he likely will lead his followers into uncomfortable
places, Kay Warren recently told a conference at Baylor
University. For Warren, it meant becoming a global advocate for
people with HIV/AIDS, for orphans and for other marginalized and
vulnerable groups.
Her husband, Rick, is pastor of
Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and author of The
Purpose Driven Life.
Accepting Christ's invitation to deny
self, take up a cross and follow him means being "dangerously
surrendered, seriously disturbed and gloriously ruined," she
told The Next Big Idea conference, an event sponsored by Baylor's
School of Social Work, Truett Theological Seminary and the
Leadership Network.
Warren told participants both at a
conference plenary session and workshop how she became "seriously
disturbed" a few years ago by reading an article about AIDS
in Africa.
"The article said there were 12 million
children in Africa orphaned by AIDS. And I couldn't name a single
one of them. There were 33 million people with AIDS. And I
couldn't name a single person who was HIV-positive," she
said.
"It rocked my world. It was a pivotal moment
when I said 'yes' to God, and he broke my heart. It turned my life
upside-down." That kind of "signpost moment"
happens when a Christian becomes "so broken by brokenness, so
disturbed, that you feel like you can't live with it another
second," Warren explained.... Read this in full
at
http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3838&Itemid=53
BAD TIMES DRAW BIGGER CROWDS TO CHURCHES
Since September,
pastors nationwide say they have seen such a burst of new interest
that they find themselves contending with powerful conflicting
emotions -- deep empathy and quiet excitement -- as they
re-encounter an old piece of religious lore: Bad times are good
for evangelical churches.
“It’s a wonderful
time, a great evangelistic opportunity for us,” said the
Rev. A. R. Bernard, founder and senior pastor of the Christian
Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York’s largest evangelical
congregation, where regulars are arriving earlier to get a seat.
“When people are shaken to the core, it can open
doors.”
Nationwide, congregations large and small are
presenting programs of practical advice for people in fiscal
straits — from a homegrown series on “Financial Peace”
at a Midtown Manhattan church called the Journey, to the “Good
Sense” program developed at the 20,000-member Willow Creek
Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., and now offered at
churches all over the country.... Read this in full
at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/nyregion/14churches.html?_r=2&emc=eta1
MARCH 22 IS WORLD WATER DAY
International World Water Day
is held annually as a means of focusing attention on the
importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable
management of freshwater resources.
An international day to
celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United
Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as
the first World Water Day.
Each year, World Water Day
highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. The 2009 theme for
World Water Day is "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities."
Special focus will be placed on transboundary waters. Nurturing
the opportunities for cooperation in transboundary water
management can help build mutual respect, understanding and trust
among countries, and promote peace, security, and sustainable
economic growth.
http://www.worldwaterday.org/page/2097
also
see
http://www.internationalaid.org/solutions/safe-water/
WATER = LIFE
by Courtny B. Davis Olds
I heard an
interesting statistic last week, a statistic that stopped me in my
tracks: Around the world, more people die because they don’t
have access to clean water than die because they don’t have
access to antibiotics. I admit that I didn’t double-check
the accuracy of that particular statement. But a quick search on
the internet revealed that over 1 billion people worldwide do not
have access to clean drinking water. Over 2 billion people do not
have adequate sanitation facilities. Nearly 2 million children die
each year as a result of water-borne diseases. Millions and
billions of people. I can’t even visualize numbers that
large.
Most people in the United States can’t
imagine life without readily accessible, clean water. It is
something we all take for granted. Sure, we complain about the
cost of utility service whenever the water bill arrives. But most
days, we don’t give water a second thought; turn on the tap,
and there it is. We use water to cook, clean, drink, bathe, brush
our teeth, wash our cars and our dogs, grow grass in the front
yard, and keep our children entertained in the summertime. Yet in
a single flush of the toilet, we use more water than many families
in Africa will use for an entire day’s worth of drinking,
cooking, cleaning, and washing. And in most of those families, the
women or children will have walked several miles to get the water
and carry it home. That puts a whole different perspective on
flushing the toilet, doesn’t it?.... Read this in full
at
http://www.esa-online.org/Article.asp?RecordKey=25C2811A-3343-4AC1-A7BF-73A69106652E
HA!
A college student drove his ratty, raggedy old car into
the shop. The mechanic looked at it a couple of minutes and said,
"What you really need is the radiator cap solution."
"Oh," said the student, trying not to sound too
confused. "Do you mean the radiator cap isn't holding enough
pressure?" "That's part of the problem" the
mechanic said. "You need to lift the radiator cap and drive
another car under it. Then you can replace the radiator cap, and
it should solve your problem."
http://www.mikeysFunnies.com
NEW ON TV: 'KINGS' STEALS A FEW PAGES FROM BIBLE
A new NBC
drama, Kings, modeled after the fabled life of Israel's most
famous king, reads at time like a modern romance novel with a
religious twist. Kings is what creator Michael Green calls "the
modern-day David and Goliath." "The more we examined the
biblical story, the more contemporary it felt. And the more we
looked at the values in the biblical story, the more they seemed
to have applicability today," executive producer Erwin Stoff
says.
David was a monumental figure in the Hebrew Bible.
The youngest of eight sons, he is literally plucked from tending
his sheep and groomed for royalty. He slays Goliath, establishes
Israel's capital in Jerusalem and authors several Psalms. Only two
of David's descendents compete for fame: his wise son, Solomon,
and Joseph, who several generations later would provide a home for
a miraculous son born to his virgin wife, Mary. But that's another
screenplay all its own.
Green moved the action from ancient
Israel to the fictional modern day kingdom of Gilboa, where
characters use cellphones instead of parchment, cars instead of
chariots, and automatic weapons instead of spears. A young farm
boy, David Shepherd (Chris Egan), follows his brothers into the
military to fight an endless border war. An act of heroism (and a
little divine assistance) catapults him into the national
spotlight when he single-handedly conquers a Goliath tank. King
Silas Benjamin (Ian McShane) promptly calls young David to the
capital, hoping to capitalize on his popularity as well as to keep
David from becoming a rival. David is drawn to the king's daughter
Michelle (Allison Miller), a political force in her own right, and
to her hard-partying brother Jack (Sebastian Stan). Queen Rose
(Susanna Thompson) manipulates the press while her brother
connives to keep the kingdom at war. Only the minister Rev.
Samuels (Eamonn Walker) speaks for the Almighty and the cause of
the people.
With the biblical David -- described in
Scripture as "a man after God's own heart" even as he
orders a man killed to cover up David's affair with the man’s
wife -- creators had to work hard to include his spirituality
without letting the show lapse into another "sandals and
sand" epic.... Read this in full
at
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-05-kings-Bible_N.htm
VERSE TO PONDER
“Let us not love with words or tongue
but with actions and in truth.”
~1 John 3:18 ~
CONSIDER
“The Christian is a man who can be certain
about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the
immediate.”
~D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones~
GOD’S SACRIFICE
“Abraham looked up and there in a
thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took
the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this
day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be
provided" (Genesis 22:13-14).
“It is hard to
read the story without imagining how Abraham must have felt. Was
his hand shaking as he held the knife? Was his mind reeling under
the burden of the terrible command he was about to obey? It is not
hard to imagine his agony.
“But have you ever
considered it from God's point of view? Watching the man and his
son, did God feel something tearing at his heart, knowing that
what he asked but did not require of Abraham -- the sacrifice of
his son -- he would one day require of himself?” Ann
Spangler, Praying the Names of God
NASCAR
CHAPLAIN SHARES WORDS OF WISDOM WITH GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY
STUDENT ATHLETES
A self-proclaimed "stick-and-ball"
kind of guy, Tim Griffin was a stranger to the world of NASCAR
racing before joining the ranks of his colleagues at Motor Racing
Outreach (MRO) ten years ago. The five chaplains of Motor Racing
Outreach, a 20-year-old Christ-based organization, travel across
the country, delivering sermons, car-side prayers, counseling
after accidents and anything else the drivers and crews need while
on the road.
"These guys and gals are on the road 38
weekends out of the year, and the pressures that come with that
can often be too much to handle," said Griffin, lead chaplain
for the Sprint Cup Series. "All the more reason for us to
offer our service, and help these folks stay connected to their
families and values while they're away."
Griffin
spoke recently to students at Grand Canyon University -- a leading
Phoenix-based private, intentionally Christian university -- where
a large concentration of the auditorium was filled by student
athletes. During his sermon, Griffin made poignant parallels
between the lives of NASCAR racers and college student
athletes.... Read this in full
at
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/179089656.html
POLL: RISE IN AMERICANS WITH NO RELIGION
A wide-ranging
study on American religious life finds that the percentage of
Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they
have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they
had no religion, an increase from 14.2% in 2001 and 8.2% in 1990,
according to the American Religious Identification Survey. The
study finds that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in
every state. The percentage of people who call themselves in some
way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation. The
faithful have scattered out of their traditional bases: The Bible
Belt is less Baptist. The Rust Belt is less Catholic. And
everywhere, more people are exploring spiritual frontiers -- or
falling off the faith map completely....Read this in full at
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-american-religion-ARIS_N.htm
Also
“America becoming less Christian, survey
finds”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/09/us.religion.less.christian/index.html
ARE AMERICANS SUPERSTITIOUS?
by Karlyn Bowman
In an
attempt to quantify how superstitious Americans are, pollsters
have explored our beliefs about prophecies like the soothsayer's
warning about Caesar's imminent death. They've also studied what
we think about all things supernatural and fantastical. 31% told
Harris interviewers they believed in astrology, but in answer to a
National Opinion Research Center question, a much larger
proportion, 57%, admitted having read a horoscope or personal
astrology report. 31% said they thought astrology was "very"
or "sort of" scientific. 17% told Gallup surveyors they
had consulted a psychic or fortune teller. Responding to a
question from Yankelovich, a third said they believed intelligent
beings from other planets have visited the US. In Harris' survey,
36% of people surveyed believed in UFOs, 25% weren't sure and 39%
didn't believe.... Read this in full
at
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/06/superstitious-ufo-alien-conspiracy-opinions-columnists-superstition.html
PLOTZ ON THE GOOD BOOK
In 2006 and 2007, David Plotz
blogged the Bible for Slate, starting with 'In the beginning ...'
and reading right through to the end. Plotz has now published Good
Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring
Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible, a
book sparked by the Slate project:
”Should *you* read
the Bible? You probably haven't. A century ago, most well-educated
Americans knew the Bible deeply. Today, biblical illiteracy is
practically universal among nonreligious people. My mother and my
brother, professors of literature and the best-read people I've
ever met, have not done much more than skim Genesis and Exodus.
Even among the faithful, Bible reading is erratic. The Catholic
Church, for example, includes only a teeny fraction of the Old
Testament in its official readings. Jews study the first five
books of the Bible pretty well but shortchange the rest of it.
Orthodox Jews generally spend more time on the Talmud and other
commentary than on the Bible itself. Of the major Jewish and
Christian groups, only evangelical Protestants read the whole
Bible obsessively.
“Maybe it doesn't make sense for
most of us to read the whole Bible. After all, there are so many
difficult, repellent, confusing, and boring passages. Why not skip
them and cherry-pick the best bits? After spending a year with the
good book, I've become a full-on Bible thumper. Everyone should
read it -- all of it! In fact, the less you believe, the more you
should read. Let me explain why, in part by telling how reading
the whole Bible has changed me.” .... Read this in full
at
http://www.slate.com/id/2212616/
SCANDINAVIAN NONBELIEVERS, WHICH IS NOT TO SAY ATHEISTS
Phil
Zuckerman spent 14 months in Scandinavia, talking to hundreds of
Danes and Swedes about religion. It wasn’t easy.
Anyone
who has paid attention knows that Denmark and Sweden are among the
least religious nations in the world. Polls asking about belief in
God, the importance of religion in people’s lives, belief in
life after death or church attendance consistently bear this out.
It is also well known that in various rankings of nations
by life expectancy, child welfare, literacy, schooling, economic
equality, standard of living and competitiveness, Denmark and
Sweden stand in the first tier.
Well documented though
they may be, these two sets of facts run up against the assumption
of many Americans that a society where religion is minimal would
be, in Mr. Zuckerman’s words, “rampant with
immorality, full of evil and teeming with depravity.”
Which is why he insists at some length that what he and
his wife and children experienced was quite the opposite: “a
society — a markedly irreligious society — that was,
above all, moral, stable, humane and deeply good.”
Mr.
Zuckerman, a sociologist who teaches at Pitzer College in
Claremont, Calif., has reported his findings on religion in
Denmark and Sweden in “Society Without God” (New York
University Press, 2008). Much that he found will surprise many
people, as it did him.... Read this in full
at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/us/28beliefs.html
CHURCHES NEED SECURITY PLANS, EXPERTS SAY
Churches can stop
a shooter or anyone else intent on harming church members with the
proper security measures in place, an expert on protecting places
of worship says. "A church is not helpless when they have a
plan, and properly trained security," said Jeff Hawkins, the
executive director of the Christian Security Network.
First
Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois, had a security plan in
place when a gunman walked into services Sunday morning, March 8,
and killed Pastor Fred Winters, said Tim Lawson, another pastor at
the church.
It's essential that a church must balance
having a security presence while still keeping a house of worship
open to everyone, Hawkins said. "Some churches choose armed
guards, some have a much more subtle security presence where you
wouldn't even know it's there." A church should have five
security plans in place to deal with evacuation, long-term
shelter, medical emergencies, lost or missing children and violent
confrontations, he said.
"Every church is different
so you need something that is going to work for that particular
church's culture and size," he said. "And I think now,
especially after September 11, people want to feel secure. They
want to know if they bring their family somewhere, it's going to
be a safe environment. Everyone should approach this realistically
and not say, 'This couldn't happen here in church,' because we see
it happen all the time.".... Read this in full
at
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/09/church.security/
PUTTING MAN BEFORE DESCARTES
by John Lukacs
Historical
knowledge—indeed, any kind of human knowledge—is
necessarily subjective. That is what I tended to think in my early
20s. Soon I found that I was wrong. Subjectivity is merely the
obverse side of objectivism and objectivity; there is something
wrong with the entire Cartesian coin, of a world divided into
object and subject, because subjectivism as much as objectivism is
determinist.
Every human being sees the world in his own
way. That is inevitable but not determined. We choose not only
what and how we think but what and how we see. According to
subjectivism I can think and see in only one (my) way; he in
another (his) way. This is wrong, because thinking and seeing are
creative acts coming from the inside, not the outside. Which is
why we are responsible both for how and what we do or say as well
as for how and what we think and see (or, for what we want to
think and for what we want to see).
Knowledge, which is
neither objective nor subjective, is always personal. Not
individual: personal. The concept of the individual has been one
of the essential misconceptions of political liberalism. Every
human being is unique, but he does not exist alone. He is
dependent on others (a human baby for much longer than the
offspring of other animals); his existence is inseparable from his
relations with other human beings.
But there is more to
that. Our knowledge is not only personal; it is also participant.
There is -- yet there cannot be -- a separation of the knower from
the known. We must see further than this. It is not enough to
recognize the impossibility (perhaps even the absurdity) of the
ideal of their antiseptic, objective separation. What concerns --
or should concern -- us is something more than the inseparability;
it is the involvement of the knower with the known. That this is
so when it comes to the reading, researching, writing, and
thinking of history should be rather obvious. Detachment from
one’s passions and memories is often commendable. But
detachment, too, is something different from separation; it
involves the ability (issuing from one’s willingness) to
achieve a stance of a longer or higher perspective. The choice for
such a stance does not necessarily mean a reduction of one’s
personal interest, of participation -- perhaps even the
contrary.... Read this in full
at
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/putting-man-before-descartes/
CONSIDER
“If God is your co-pilot -- swap seats!”
~Unknown~
VERSE TO PONDER
“Fear
the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing. The
lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack
no good thing.”
~Psalm 34:9-10~
ON
PRAYER
“Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to
change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.”
Peter Marshall (1902-1949)
PRAY FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS
TODAY
http://christiansincrisis.net/
DAILY BLESSING PACT
Use
the following list as your daily prayer guide. Think of a brother
or situation that applies and lift them up in prayer.
I am
agreeing in prayer with you for God’s blessings to overtake
you!
PERSONAL
Marital harmony
Family unity
Children
saved
Faithful pastor
Spirit-filled church
Real
friendships
Relatives redeemed
Educational
benefits
Recreational time
Fulfilling career
Favor with
God and man
Be in God’s will
FINANCIAL
Better
Jobs
Raises or bonuses
Benefits
Sales &
commissions
Business Growth
Settlements
Estates &
inheritances
Investment increase
Rebates &
returns
Checks in the mail
Gifts & surprises
Money to
be found
Bills decrease while blessings increase
"And
all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou
shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God" (Deut.
28:2).
[As you travel on business or vacation, let me know
if you'd like the church guys to pray for your safety and
spiritual effectiveness. I'll add your name to the list for the
time you'll be away.]
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Frank Coleman, Editor
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