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|[pic] |PRAYER GUIDE |

|September 17 – 30, 2018 |

SCRIPTURE PRAYER EXAMPLE

Scripture prayer, from infancy to youth, for physical and spiritual growth and for God’s favor using Luke 2:40,52:

Father, may [insert name] grow and become strong, be filled with wisdom, have Your grace on him. May he grow in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with You and with men. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

YOUR PRAYER TIME

PRAISE: First take time to praise the Father, Son, and Spirit and bring thank offerings. Psalm 100:4 tells us to “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.”

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Week 1: Read Acts 16:5-15. As I continue traveling through the book of Acts, I’ve stopped to consider the importance of Act’s author, Luke. I tend to forget that he accompanied Paul during many legs of his second and third missionary journeys, evidenced by his records often written in first person.

In Colossians 4:10-14, one of Paul’s Prison Epistles, he records his “only” Jewish co-workers (Aristarchus, Mark, and Justus) then names Luke among the others, which indicates Luke was non-Jewish, making him the only Gentile writer of the New Testament. Luke’s first-person account in Acts 28 indicates he traveled with Paul to Rome, and Colossians 4 confirms that he stayed there with him while Paul remained under house arrest. To this faithful servant and meticulous, early-church historian, we owe a debt of gratitude.

For me, the highlight in today’s passage is that the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers. From Acts 2:41, when 3,000 were added to the church in one day, to the close of Acts, Luke makes careful record of the refining persecution from outside the church to the devotion within that forged her character.

[The church] devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

These four traits of the early church from Acts 2:42 are the source of her spiritual health: the eager desire to learn the teachings of Jesus; hearts bound together in sacrificial fellowship; the practice of communion; and a devotion to prayer. Churches must do all four well, not just three, to be healthy and vibrant, to host the Holy Spirit.

Two thousand years later, as we stand longing, hungry to see God powerfully at work again, allow me in closing to encourage you with such a modern-day account:

Calvary Temple Church [in Hyderabad, India] is one of the largest and fastest growing churches in the world, where Pastor Satish Kumar preaches to more than 160,000 people in five services every Sunday… Calvary Temple Church wasn’t always this large. Thirteen years ago, Pastor Satish Kumar set forth with an enormous God-given vision and determination – to construct a 26,000 seat, high-tech auditorium in 52 days – working only at night to avoid government intervention. God provided and the church was built. And God continues to provide in stunning ways as some 3,000 people are added to the church every month.[1]

In Him, Anita

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Week 2: Read John 3:16-21. As we have been talking in the Note of Encouragement this week about meditation, I would like for us to begin to practice meditating on this most important structural underpinning paragraph of our faith. Let’s just think through the first four words of this first very familiar verse: “For God so loved ...”

Here is the whole of what we have based our lives upon. God loves us. God loves us when we obey and when we do not. God loves us when we worship and when we don’t. God loves us when we love Him and also when we reject Him. God loves us when we love others and when we mistreat others. He loves us when we think good thoughts and when we are so far off track that we cannot see the way back to Him. God loves us.

Because He is perfect, He loves us perfectly, without reservation or condition. His love for us is completely ours and fully formed from the moment we are created. He will never love us more than He already does, and He cannot love us at any point in our lives less than He loves us already. If we could actually get our minds and our hearts around the total love that God has for us, we would live lives of peace and contentment. We would have no anxious thoughts, because we would understand that we are completely loved all the time by the God who made us. Then we would be able to love others from depths of the love that God had spread through our entire being. We would be so gracious and kind, knowing that our heavenly Father had infused us with so much of His love that it would naturally spill over onto whoever we might encounter in this short life we live.

Let us ruminate on this thought.

In Him, Dianne

❖ Help Us To Love, Tori Kelly, ft. The HamilTones watch?v=5izPEZNz1bs

THANKSGIVING: Honor God by remembering His blessings and recall answered prayers. “He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God.” Psalm 50:23

CONFESSION: Now take time to allow the Spirit to counsel your heart to prepare you to come before the throne. Isaiah 59:2 states “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.” But 1 John 1:9 states “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

INTERCESSION: Lastly, know that the LORD delights when we come with bold prayers before His throne. He awaits our prayers. Hebrews 4:14-16.

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Thank you for your faithful prayers. Revelation 5:8 – “And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.”

PRAY-ERS SCHEDULE

Remember to pray for the other mothers on their prayer days.

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Saturday:

“PRAYER DOES NOT FIT US FOR THE GREATER WORKS; PRAYER IS THE GREATER WORK.”

By: Oswald Chambers

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[1] Turning Point’s Exclusive Publication for Bible Strong Partners – Third Quarter 2018

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