A reflection on prayer:
"praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints..." -- Ephesians 6:18
This week's requests:
- Pray for the Spirit to work powerfully in our midst during the Lord's Supper each week: beautifying Jesus in our eyes, building our faith in him, uniting us closer to him and one another, healing our dark and broken parts, producing new spiritual fruit in us, and empowering us to be a part of Christ's mission in the world.
- Pray for our Facilities and Worship Logistics Team, which helps Redeemer carry out God's calling by preparing Snowden for worship each Lord's Day morning.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Mid-Week Prayer, June 17
A reflection on prayer:
"Prayer... accomplishes things we couldn't do by our own effort, organization or skill. Prayer remains mysterious at one level. Nobody quite knows 'how it works', and this not knowing seems to be part of the point. But it remains a deeply practical thing to do. One of the great Christian leaders of the twentieth century, Archbishop William Temple, declared that whatever else one might say about whether prayer worked, he had noticed that when he prayed, 'coincidences' happened; and when he stopped praying, the 'coincidences' stopped happening... Of course [he] didn't believe that the things which happened in apparent answer to prayer really were coincidences. This was how God worked.... the prayers even of young and inexperienced Christians are every bit as powerful and valid in God's presence as those of a seasoned apostle." --N.T. Wright
This week's requests:
- Pray for all those who teach our children in Children's Church, nursery, and spiritual formation classes.
- Pray for the families of Redeemer. That the love of Christ would dwell in our homes. That our homes would be places where we "live with one another in an understanding manner" and where we follow the apostle Paul's words of exhortation where he says, "be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other just as God also in Christ Jesus has forgiven you."
"Prayer... accomplishes things we couldn't do by our own effort, organization or skill. Prayer remains mysterious at one level. Nobody quite knows 'how it works', and this not knowing seems to be part of the point. But it remains a deeply practical thing to do. One of the great Christian leaders of the twentieth century, Archbishop William Temple, declared that whatever else one might say about whether prayer worked, he had noticed that when he prayed, 'coincidences' happened; and when he stopped praying, the 'coincidences' stopped happening... Of course [he] didn't believe that the things which happened in apparent answer to prayer really were coincidences. This was how God worked.... the prayers even of young and inexperienced Christians are every bit as powerful and valid in God's presence as those of a seasoned apostle." --N.T. Wright
This week's requests:
- Pray for all those who teach our children in Children's Church, nursery, and spiritual formation classes.
- Pray for the families of Redeemer. That the love of Christ would dwell in our homes. That our homes would be places where we "live with one another in an understanding manner" and where we follow the apostle Paul's words of exhortation where he says, "be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other just as God also in Christ Jesus has forgiven you."
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Mid-Week Prayer, June 11
A reflection on prayer:
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?... Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help...my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death... But you, O Lord, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid!... The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever! All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations." -- Psalm 22 (excerpts)
This week's requests:
- Pray for Jeffrey and his family. They are in Jackson to meet with doctors and discontinue life support for his father. Pray for Jesus' presence with them all, especially Jeffrey's mother and father. Pray they would know him as the suffering Savior who has gone beyond the veil of death and conquered for us. Pray they would have the freedom to lament and grieve well, and that they would know the peace of God.
- Pray for all those in our church community who are feeling the pains of aging (their own, and the aging of loved ones).
- Pray for God to continue to raise up leaders at Redeemer.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Mid-Week Prayer, June 4
A reflection on prayer:
"We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing -- as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth." -Colossians 1:3-6
Prayer requests:
-Pray for God's spirit to help our pastor experience Jesus Christ as he preaches. Pray for the Spirit to help him to know and believe in the power of Christ's forgiveness, grace, and renewing work as he ministers God's word on Sundays at Redeemer. Help him to preach expectantly.
-Pray for God to bless all the mercy and justice ministry efforts going on in Memphis, and those throughout our city and the world of which our people are part. Pray for God to bless our corporate mercy and justice ministry efforts through our City/World Serve Team.
"We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing -- as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth." -Colossians 1:3-6
Prayer requests:
-Pray for God's spirit to help our pastor experience Jesus Christ as he preaches. Pray for the Spirit to help him to know and believe in the power of Christ's forgiveness, grace, and renewing work as he ministers God's word on Sundays at Redeemer. Help him to preach expectantly.
-Pray for God to bless all the mercy and justice ministry efforts going on in Memphis, and those throughout our city and the world of which our people are part. Pray for God to bless our corporate mercy and justice ministry efforts through our City/World Serve Team.
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