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Needs for the month of January:
Healthy kid friendly snacks, nuts, fruit, snack bars, sandwich crackers.
Look for the bin in the Worship Center lobby to drop off your donations.
Need for the Month: $56,000.00
Need for the Week: $13,000.00
Giving this Week: $14,986.00
January Total: $14,986.00
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Praying Scripture
God invites each of us into a greater experience of spiritual growth and deeper intimacy with Him through prayer.
The Bible is a record of God restoring to humanity what was lost in Eden – Kingdom relationship lost, Kingdom relationship restored.
2 Timothy 3
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Praying Scripture is using the words of the Bible to guide and inform our prayers. In prayer, we speak God’s Word back to Him.
Praying scripture informs us of God’s character along with His ways, His works, and His will.
Praying God’s Word can give us a greater understanding of it as we slow down to meditate on it and allow it to shape our prayers and our lives.
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.
Incorporating Scripture into our prayers can greatly expand our prayer vocabulary.
PSALMS – a spiritual thesaurus for our worship, praise and prayer vocabulary
Psalm 16
1 Keep me safe, my God,
for in you I take refuge.
5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;
you make my lot secure.
11 You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
THE PRAYERS OF PAUL – a resource to expand our vocabulary for prayers of petition
Colossians 1
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
THE PRAYERS OF JESUS – a reference to develop our vocabulary for closer intimacy with our Heavenly Father
John 17
4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.
When we bring Scripture into our prayers, praying becomes more of a response to God rather than only a request of Him.
When we regularly use Scripture to pray, it moves us beyond our own needs and points us to God’s greater purposes for us and the world around us.
Ephesians 3
14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
“Father God, I come before you, the One who made everything from the earth to the heavens. I pray that you would strengthen me with power from Your Holy Spirit so that Christ would live in me and through me more fully. I pray that my life would be deeply rooted in Your love so that I can personally know and experience the greatness of Your affection for me. Help me to live everyday filled with more and more of You!”