Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Our Last Day but not Our last effort..........


El Elyon

There are many names used to describe you Father but today I call upon the name that says you are the God Most High over the earth. You are the goodness that provides us with health, life, love and prosperity and I thank you for it all in whatever measure you give. You are light and in you I can find no darkness so each day I come to you with a humble heart that is grateful and blessed because I live in your perfect plan and in you there is grace and mercy. I thank you Father for that confidence for it carries me through days I don’t really understand and it answers for me the questions I have sometimes as to why things are like they are. Our church Father is in a campaign praying for our nation, our community and individuals. The numbers are really hard for me to grasp and the need is overwhelming. They are just asking for some relief from this life’s present troubles when I drive down the streets of the place where I live I wont be able to drive by those houses blind anymore because this has revealed to me that behind every door the knowledge of Your love is needed. Those people that are beyond the walls of the church need to know there was an atoning sacrifice and that this is not the end of the story. It is my hope and my prayer on this last day we will do all we can to reach the last few that will open their door. We have this love in us Father to reach them because you planted seeds in us long ago please water them today and don’t let us grow faint on this last day… hold us to our work that will deliver Your message.

Yesterday I was able to speak with Richard and Rita again. They didn’t come last night Father and I was so hopeful they would but I also know that Your timing is perfect and we prayed for them knowing that anything we ask according to Your will You have heard us. So bless them Father and stay with them and continue to work with them. Comfort and direct their steps Father and because they might not know the direction to take let me bring them before you everyday for healing, peace and comfort. Thank you Father for all that you do.

Father if we are weak make us stronger, give us the right knowledge to know what to say, when to act and how to not react to things that are happening around us. Our actions are a testimony to our love for You so let us be forgiving in our nature, to look beyond what we see on the surface and to touch lives in a way that makes things better and not more difficult. Each of us bears burdens that no one knows but us so for those things we hold inside of us that could be comforted if only we could let it go give each and everyone of us that ability.

Father, I thank you for a good week, I thank you for the blessing of seeing Your words at work in our membership and in others. Thank you for the men who came with Leland Rogers. Thank you for sending some young people to walk those doors and to start building for the next generation. Ashley, Jessica, Tyler, Jasmine, Ariel we’ll come to depend on them someday to carry on when we can not so let us groom all of our young people into people that will not forget Your atoning sacrifices for our sins, Your mercy and grace.

Father, keep us safe, keep our hearts sealed from the lies of the evil one, give us understanding and love for each other. Keep some of our ladies under Your watchful eye….. Ricki Lane, Linda Allen, Geanie Ballard, Shirley Cox, Karen Goode, Cindy Rieck, Darla Plunkett, Kim Ellis, Kristen Fagala, Lois Allen, Janet Dolecki, Bonnie Dutton, Rebecca Zaun, Lucy Rouse, Debra Sims, Denise Webb, Anne Young, Pat Schultz, Liz Miller, Patti Barnett and myself. Your scriptures tell us no one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. Make us ever mindful of those words. Help us because we are Your testimony to the world.

Thank you for the avenue of prayer Father for it is made available to us by the sacrifice of Your son so in His strong and powerful name save our dying land and hear our prayers. Amen

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