One Month.
One Prayer.
One Chance to Change the World.
Prayer Direction from oneprayer.com: During the four weeks of One Prayer, we’re setting aside each Tuesday as a time to fast together. This week we’re going to concentrate our prayers on the most important experience that can occur in an individual’s life – salvation. As you fast and pray, ask God for opportunities to share Christ with those who don’t know Him. Consider inviting someone to church with you this weekend.
Scripture thought for the week:
Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Acts 20:9
Dear Friend,
Wow! Talk about a bad dream! The guy fell asleep because Paul was just going on and on… how fair is it that he woke up dead?! Have you ever fell asleep and missed the end of a movie, a book or a sermon? Can you imagine missing the climax of your own life? WAKE UP before it’s too late!
What has God made you to be and do in this life? What does God expect you to be awake for? Is there something in particular you are ignoring or sleeping through that God has made you for? What has put you to sleep? What has you drifting off from the life God has given you to live? The word for this week is WAKE UP! Life is too good, too important to miss out on your own conclusion, your own last scene, your own last chapter. Choose to live right now in the fullness of God’s words for you.
One way to WAKE UP…
One of the ways to WAKE UP to God’s voice is through fasting. When you deny yourself the regular luxury of a meal or meals, you will wake yourself up to pray and then listen to God. While your stomach is rumbling and longing for food, allow prayers to come from you that are full of longing and desire. We hope you will be fasting with us and over 760,000 other Christ followers (from oneprayer.com) today. Whatever you are willing to “fast,” replace it with a hunger-filled prayer. You’ll be amazed at how you will WAKE UP to the things that matter to you and more importantly, to God’s Kingdom.
During this one month of the “oneprayer” series, we will be WAKING UP to some things God has been trying to give us for a long time. Don’t miss a single Sunday –you will never be the same.
Our prayer for you today:
Let the prayers Your people pray wake them up to Your goodness. For those that are troubled let them find Your purpose, for confusion bring assurance, for pressure bring endurance, for fear bring generosity, for discouragement bring vision, for sleepiness bring conviction. Let Your people live these few days on this earth fully awake, fully alive, fully in love with You and completely engaged in the purpose You have created them for, including reaching people for Christ. Lead each person in prayers and witnessing that will bring others to salvation. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen
WAKING UP,
Scott & Clare
©2008 Scott & Clare Loughrige