I am not entirely comfortable with this topic, Lord, but due to our positions as Junior Church coordinators, we have been informed about the membership meeting on April 6 for a church discipline issue.
I don't want to know who, or what. I do want to ask You to spread Your mercy over the offender(s) and over the leadership. What I want, what I ask, is that people would be drawn to You in this situation. Too often these situations breed hurt and hardness in people's hearts, and instead of repentance, these "offenders" are often lost, sometimes for years and occasionally for life.
So, I ask for blessing, gentleness, restoration, and true repentance. May the leadership handle this in a wise and Godly way, not lording it over anyone. May they not rest on being "right" but much more on bringing lost sheep back into the sheepfold. Please, dear Father, may Your magnetism work here to bring glory to Yourself by bringing people back into Your family.
In Jesus name, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, may You direct the script~~Amen.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Katie Raley's Father In Law
Lord, our MOPS acting coordinator, Katie Raley, just sent an email requesting prayer for her father in law who is having what looks to me like neurological events. I assured her that she could consider him "prayed for," and I want to be good to my word!
So, would you bless him? How? Any way You deem appropriate. The most important thing, I would suggest (not that I can tell You what to do), would be that he and Katie and her husband Charles would have an overwhelming peace that comes from Your being in the rooms with them. I know, and I believe she knows, that You are always there. It is perhaps truer for me to ask that they would be aware of You. You bring peace. You bring a sense of knowing the future, although we don't. I think of Martha, who knew that if You had been there when Lazarus was dying, things would have been different. You allowed Lazarus to die to reveal Your power; but what is more striking to me is that Martha wanted Your presence.
So, please make them aware of Your constant omnipresence and allow that to give them peace. In Jesus's name, Amen!
So, would you bless him? How? Any way You deem appropriate. The most important thing, I would suggest (not that I can tell You what to do), would be that he and Katie and her husband Charles would have an overwhelming peace that comes from Your being in the rooms with them. I know, and I believe she knows, that You are always there. It is perhaps truer for me to ask that they would be aware of You. You bring peace. You bring a sense of knowing the future, although we don't. I think of Martha, who knew that if You had been there when Lazarus was dying, things would have been different. You allowed Lazarus to die to reveal Your power; but what is more striking to me is that Martha wanted Your presence.
So, please make them aware of Your constant omnipresence and allow that to give them peace. In Jesus's name, Amen!
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