Weekly Prayer Message, Monday, June 1, 2020 An Astonishing Recovery On Wednesday, April 8, I wrote the following prayer need in my daily prayer message: “Nick – family member of Michelle Doherty, fighting to live.” He had contracted the coronavirus, had a compromised immune system, was elderly and the prospects for his recovery were dim. We started praying…
Daily Prayer Message, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 Final Daily Message On Tuesday, March 16, the church closed to all meetings due to the expanding pandemic and I began writing a daily prayer message, substituting it for the morning meeting and to additionally be posted online for the entire church. I knew beyond any shadow of a…
Weekly Prayer Message, Monday, May 25, 2020 The Power of Encouragement I love to encourage others. I love to be encouraged. Few things in life are more wonderful to me than encouragement. To affirm someone. To call out who they are. To put them in touch with their real identity. To bless them. Speak life into…
Daily Prayer Message, Saturday, May 23, 2020 To All Who… To all who are weary and need rest To all who mourn and need comfort To all who are lonely and need friends To all who feel empty and need God To all who feel ashamed, burdened with guilt To all who are weak, who have…
Daily Prayer Message, Friday, May 22, 2020 More Love To Thee I usually do not make a video the central focus of a daily prayer letter but this video is so unusually tender, sweet, beautiful and charming I am making an exception. I love the hymn and the vocalist singing is such a pure worshiper I…
Daily Prayer Message, Thursday, May 21, 2020 Loving One Another God has created the church, the Body of Christ to excel at two things. First to love God with all out heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength. And then we are called to love one another. With everything we have. To…
Daily Prayer Message, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Pray With Kavanah A Window Into Prayer: In Hebrew, to pray with “kavanah” means to pray from the heart. Praying with “kavanah” is entering into a real place of yearning and longing over what or whom is our object of prayer, with selfless and sincere intention. Intercession means to…
Daily Prayer Message, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Personal Weakness “Much good comes out of any experience of personal weakness. Through it God teaches us to be humble, lowly and obedient. Humility is good in every situation because it produces a teachable spirit. Our aim should not be greatness, not the praise of men, nor the admiration…
Weekly Prayer Message, Monday, May 18, 2020 First Thoughts I’m looking at this picture, and I am moved, so much so that I begin writing down my first thoughts. Not analyzing. Not thinking long. Just my first thoughts… “Friends. How I love them. How glorious to worship God side by side. Together. Near each other. In…
Daily Prayer Message, Saturday, May 16, 2020 Loving God And Jesus was asked, “Which commandment is the greatest of all commandments?” And Jesus answered, “The foremost is, Hear O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind,…