Another prayer for our Eldership and church......

Dear Father

Each day brings something new so I embrace it with knowledge that it comes from You. Thank You so much for the gift of life. There are many things that can go wrong with life but so many more things that can go right and knowing You lets us look for the things that do go right and see them ever so clearly. Father I know it’s You and I can feel the love You have for Your own. Thank You for being so kind, so loving even in the darkness. Thank You for the girls at the stores yesterday who really brightened my day and helped me. Thank You for that young man at Krogers who went the little extra for me to get me just what I needed. It made me smile because I could know You really do still live in the heart of many. There are people on this earth that still make the extra effort for another person. Thank You for making that seen in the everydayness of life.

Father a new days starts today as our eldership meets to discuss the business of the church, the day to day goings on that will help us be the body You want us to be. Be with them Father make them see the value of every effort as a strong hold for You. We as a church have to make it work we are the ones who have to hold it together for the sake of growth. Father, guide the minds of those men to the new challenges that are going to face them. It’s not an easy task for mortal men to know what to do. They will need You to be the foundation. Leadership and management seem like strange words for the church but they are needed as all things need balance. Let us all be looking for what we can do as individuals to help these men with their cause. We seek this by Your supervision for it is Your will that will make or break this church. Keep us all with humbled hearts, listening ears and soft actions. Keep peace among the body as these changes take affect and let them be accepted as the best choices for Your church. Give us hope and let all the glory in this be to Your Holy Name and support for the Spirit that lives in us as Your children. Keep us in every respect working in the right direction basing everything on Your words not our own.

Father, watch over Mark Goode and our service men today. Comfort their families and bring them home safe and sound. Watch over the leaders of this country. I asked a special prayer for Darla, Hana and Thomas bless their new home. Give them unity and a strong spirit of hope. Bless Debra in her efforts to get things going in a better direction for herself. Ease my worries for her choices. Be with Roland he is worn down and fight a cold. He has a really hard time with colds more so than most so it’s extra difficult plus he can’t seem to slow down to get better. He is having troubles with his eyes Father so we are making appointments with doctors for explanations of the problems be with those doctors and let us seek the best answer to help Roland with this problem. He is very dependant on his eyes for his work and being in a plant has also caused problems with his hearing. He really needs to be able to see and hear to work effectively so help in these matters and lead us to the best doctors to help him.

Watch over Robbie and Sandy and bless their new home and help them to work hard to get it fixed up and in working order. Help Robbie with work and bless Sandy in her new job as well.

I pray it daily into Your hands Father, be with all the people on my “list” You know it well by now. Thank You so much for letting us be able to pray. Thank You so much for us being able to do anything at all. Bless Your children this day keep our heads on straight and our thoughts on Your will and not our own. In the name and sacrifices of Your son Christ Jesus we lay it all at the foot of the cross…….Amen