Two to Pray for and Email

This morning Taylor Edmonds asked us to pray with and for her as she goes to Rome for a 2-3 year term with the Journeyman missions program of the IMB. If you would like to receive her email updates or just send her a note on occasion to let her know of your prayers and support, here's the address: taylor_1499@hotmail.com.

And Dale Hamilton arrived this weekend in Iraq with the Army battalion to which he's been assigned. I know Dale would not only appreciate your prayers but also hearing from you. His email is: alan.dale.hamilton@conus.army.mil

Day 35

It's Sunday! Our last Sunday of these 40 Days. Let's pray for it to be a fantastic Lord's Day.
Burnie is bringing the Word today at church. Pray for him.

A reminder - we've moved Communion to First Wednesday, so in case you were planning to come to church tonight, don't!

We'll hear more about 40 Days of Purpose today. It starts with a great kick off rally Saturday night.

Each day a new post will allow you to comment on how God is teaching you and how your focus on prayer is making a difference. Feel free to share prayer requests. If they're for another person, please have their permission before posting. And share how God is answering your prayers as well.

Let's use this daily and regularly to encourage one another!

But I will call on God, and the LORD will rescue me.
Morning, noon, and night I plead aloud in my distress,
and the LORD hears my voice. -Ps. 55:16-17

Day 34

Only 7 days until we kick off 40 Days of Purpose!

Each day a new post will allow you to comment on how God is teaching you and how your focus on prayer is making a difference. Feel free to share prayer requests. If they're for another person, please have their permission before posting. And share how God is answering your prayers as well.

Let's use this daily and regularly to encourage one another!

I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. *Selah

For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You
In a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they shall not come near him.
You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble;
You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. *Selah - Psalm 32:5-7

*Selah - "stop and think about this"

Praying for 40 Days of Purpose

A main purpose behind these current 40 Days is to pray for the next 40 as our focus shifts from prayer to discovering our God designed purposes together. We'll do that via a wonderful study called 40 Days of Purpose. During that time our church will be studying the same material in small groups, memorizing scripture and all be on the same page as we use a devotional called "The Purpose Driven Life".

Here's my specific prayer for the 40 Days: that God would move each of us forward in our relationship with Him and with one another. Each of us are somewhere in those circles. I'm especially concerned with those who are on the fringes of the family. So I'm praying for forward progress in our lives; moving toward the center.

I hope you'll join me in praying these next few days.

Day 33 - One week left!

Each day a new post will allow you to comment on how God is teaching you and how your focus on prayer is making a difference. Feel free to share prayer requests. If they're for another person, please have their permission before posting. And share how God is answering your prayers as well.

Let's use this daily and regularly to encourage one another!

O LORD, hear me as I pray; pay attention to my groaning.
Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,
for I will never pray to anyone but you.
Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD.
Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.
- Psalm 5:1-3

Day 32

Each day a new post will allow you to comment on how God is teaching you and how your focus on prayer is making a difference. Feel free to share prayer requests. If they're for another person, please have their permission before posting. And share how God is answering your prayers as well.

Let's use this daily and regularly to encourage one another!

We are your servants, the people you rescued by your great power and might. O LORD, please hear my prayer! Listen to the prayers of those of us who delight in honoring you. - Nehemiah 1:10-11a

Day 31 - First Wednesday tonight

Each day a new post will allow you to comment on how God is teaching you and how your focus on prayer is making a difference. Feel free to share prayer requests. If they're for another person, please have their permission before posting. And share how God is answering your prayers as well.

Let's use this daily and regularly to encourage one another!

When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 7:13-14