If we become to busy to pray all our busyness will amount to nothing and our work blown away with the winds of time

We often make the mistake of thinking our accomplishments are the measurements of our success. However, the reality is that who we are is the real measure of our accomplishments. And nothing shapes who we are more than a life of intimacy with God through prayer. Then our accomplishments are the fruit of who we are in Christ and they bring God glory and He fulfills His divine purpose.

Worship through confession and repentance

Confession and repentance are two difficult things to practice if we are always measuring our self by others. However, when we begin to judge our self by Gods truth and righteousness we not only understand the need for daily confession and repentance but they both become expression of Gods sustaining, enabling grace.

Psalm 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart These, O God, You will not despise.

Insight: Is there anything that should break our heart more than our sin? The word, contrite, means to be crushed. How often are we truly crushed because of our careless actions and reckless thoughts? How easy it is for us to harden our heart against the Holy Spirit as He convicts us of our sin. Our lack of sincere confession and our practice of excusing and rationalizing our sin explains our spiritual impotence and lack of zeal to pursue intimacy with God.

Prayer:

Father help us to be honest with ourselves and focused upon You. Give us hearts that freely confess our sin as those who are redeemed by Your blood. Make our heart fragile when it comes to our sin and the offence it is to You so our heart will quickly break in sorrow and bring us to the altar of repentance with swiftness, resting all our hopes in Your righteousness and grace.

Worship through Praise

If we see the events of life as mere chance and believe that we are victims there will be few songs of praise from our lips. However if we see the events of life as being orchestrated by the wisdom and will of God who is sovereign over all things then we can no longer live as victims of chance, but victors of grace and divine purpose.

Jeremiah 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Gods people where in His thoughts and He had a plan for them. As the redeemed people of God, through Christ, we too are in His thoughts and His plan is to give us a future and a hope. For us who are Christ followers our future and our hope rest upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Whatever may happen in life we have the assurance that God has carefully and with sovereign purpose designed the events for our ultimate good and His glory. So give Him praise!

Lord, You are good and Your goodness has been extended to me through Jesus Your Son. Help me to see your kind, compassionate hand in all the events of my life. I thank you for Your awesome goodness in assuring me through Your word, that all thing are under Your control.

Prayer for Ministry

Without the help and blessing of God our entire ministry is in vain and will be unfruitful. We must never fail to ensure that God is building the house and we are His servants. It is through thoughtful, hungry prayer that we can stay on Gods course and allow Him to work through us to accomplish His purpose.

Ask the Lord to give us all a mind to work and hearts that discern His will and a willingness to be obedient to His direction. Pray that the Lord will give us a spirit of diligence as we plan and as we work so that everything we do will be characterized by excellence for His glory.

Praying for our community

The closer we come to Gods heart the greater our passion will be to pray for lost people. God demonstrated His love for those who are in the clutches of sin by giving His only Son on the cross to die for atonement for sin. It is impossible to grow in intimacy with God without being burdened for those who do not know Jesus.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Two Petitions

Pray that each person who does not know Jesus as their Savior will begin to consider their eternal destiny. Ask the Lord to be merciful to them by opening their eyes to the wages of sin and to give them a desire to learn about Jesus who gives the gift of eternal life. Pray that God will make divine appointments for us to share the message of the gospel with them.

Pray that we will be prepared to disciples those whom the Lord brings to us. Ask the Lord to instill within each of us the awesome task of being a disciple making church. Pray that we will be willing to make any investment of our time, energy, as well as financial resources to fulfill our Lords command to make disciples.

Missions Interceding for those beyond our borders

We should never become so selfish so as to use something as powerful as prayer only for ourselves or even for our immediate area. Nor should we think that God is in any measure overwhelmed by petitions that span many geographical areas of the world. We should be amazed and encouraged that as we pray for folks down the street and God hears and works, so at the same time we can pray for folks across the seas, in the most remote areas of the world, and God hears and answers our prayer.

Greater Europe Mission

50/5 - this stands for having disciple making groups in 50 cities of Europe in 5 years

Right now they are at 23 cities. They ask us to pray for the following cities:

Berlin Germany

Zurich - Switzerland

GEM strategy is to lead people to discover Jesus and disciple them so they in turn will go make disciples.

Unengaged / Unreached people groups of India The Bondili people group

The Bondili of India have a population of 45,000. They are part of the Oriya people cluster. This people group is found only in India. Their primary language is Tamil. The primary religion of the Bondili is Hinduism.

Psalm 2:8 Ask of Me and I will give You the Nations for Your inheritance and the ends of the earth for Your possession

Ask the Lord to raise up laborers for His harvest among the Bondili people. Pray that God will open the heart of these people to the gospel.

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