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a day of prayer // Wednesday E-Devotion

The Leadership Team of our new church has designated today as a day of prayer for our church family. Please join the team and me in spending some time seeking the Lord for your church and for the new work we are involved in. Following is the outline that members receive when they come to the church. Make God bless our time of seeking Him!

ACTS of prayer … ADORATION - CONFESSION - THANKSGIVING - SUPPLICATION

James 5:13-18 - Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him. Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit. (NASB)

Other Scriptures on Prayer are as follows: Psalms 32, Matthew 6:1-15, Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 6:18-20, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-25, James 4:7-10

PRAYER REQUESTS:
Frances Penn (knee replacement), Aaron Hill (recovers from surgery), unspoken requests, Bobbie Heaton (my grandmother who is doing better as she DID NOT have a stroke), Ted Shumate, Emily Burgess (test results today), Military, missionaries Eddie & Patsy Gunter, missionaries David & Carey Keaton, Christy Webb’s father (Lenford Moore, who has had a light stroke), healing for church members as we move into the new church, God’s providing money and the walls to build classrooms in this building, Youth ministry as it begins at The Community Fellowship, December 16th, preview service this Sunday and the people who are being invited to attend, December 24th’s preview service, breakfast and clothes closet give away, Clothes Closet ministry, finances (salaries, continuous bills, big price tag items) and added to the list today ... Sabrina Eames uncle (Marvin Gilley who is critical at Baptist Hospital), and Jordan Joyce who will have some surgery tomorrow.

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