Prayer Page

Forthcoming prayer week: September 21-28

We realise as God's people how important prayer is in everything we do and as well as our own individual and collective prayers we are spending various specific weeks praying for all aspects of our development project and our future leadership needs. 

The Lord, the God of Israel said to me “Write down in a book everything that I have told you, because the time is coming when I will restore my people, Israel and Judah.  I will bring them back to the land that I gave their ancestors, and they will take possession of it again, I the Lord have spoken” Jeremiah 30:1-3

 We want to bring our families, friends and neighbours to God, those who have known Him but have drifted away, those who have never had a relationship with God and those who know God but still need our prayers.

The church needs God’s person to lead us into the future,we are asking Him to direct us to the person of His choosing.

'Ask …in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” Mark 11: 24

The load is heavy, but do not lose faith as we know that He will provide our need to fulfill His purposes.

Romans 4:13-24 (The Message, a modern day version of the bible)

That famous promise God gave Abraham—that he and his children would possess the earth—was not given because of something Abraham did or would do. It was based on God's decision to put everything together for him, which Abraham then entered when he believed. If those who get what God gives them only get it by doing everything they are told to do and filling out all the right forms properly signed, that eliminates personal trust completely and turns the promise into an ironclad contract! That's not a holy promise; that's a business deal. A contract drawn up by a hard-nosed lawyer and with plenty of fine print only makes sure that you will never be able to collect. But if there is no contract in the first place, simply a promise—and God's promise at that—you can't break it.

This is why the fulfillment of God's promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God's promise arrives as pure gift. That's the only way everyone can be sure to get in on it, those who keep the religious traditions and those who have never heard of them. For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father—that's reading the story backward. He is our faith father.

We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"

WORD FOR TODAY