Prayer for Today, Wednesday, February 23

God Who is With Us,

We take refuge in You. You are our rock and our redeemer. When the storms of life blow over us, You are the anchor that holds us fast. When the day is bright and clear, You are the wind that lifts us up and lets us soar. We are nothing apart from You. Bless us, Dear Lord, and empower us to share the Good News of Jesus with the world. In His name we pray, AMEN.
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Betty Clickner died and her funeral is Saturday. Please pray for Darrell Herndon and all of Betty’s family.

Please pray for the family of John Hutchings. His funeral will be in our sanctuary on Thursday at 2:00 p.m.

The Membership Committee meets this evening at 5:15 p.m. I mistakenly said 5:00 p.m. yesterday.

WWNF is this evening. The Bell Choir will rehearse at 7:30 p.m.

The scripture reading for today is Matthew 12:38-45:
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth. The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here! The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here! “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but it finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ When it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”

Grace and peace,

John McLemore