Prayer for Today, Sunday, March 13

Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on us,

O Creator, we come to you in prayer on this Lord’s Day. We bring all that we are before You: our joys, our sorrows, our health, our sickness, our strength, and our weakness. Receive us, Dear God and welcome us with Your everlasting arms, we pray. Please forgive us for all the things we have done to separate ourselves from You. May Your Spirit mold us into new creations and may we use our strength and our weakness to glorify You. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN.
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Our own Meghan McAnally is with a group of Disciples youth touring New York City and Washington D.C. on the International Affairs Seminar. Please pray for the success of this venture.

It’s Spring Break. Please pray for those travelling and those at home. May they be safe and have a joyful break from school.

Men, don’t forget to call in your R.S.V.P. by Tuesday for the NW Area Men’s Meeting in Hennessey on Thursday.

I pray you will make every effort to attend Sunday School and Worship today.

The scripture for today is Deuteronomy 4: 32-40:
For ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: has anything so great as this ever happened or has its like ever been heard of? Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him. From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire. And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, giving you their land for a possession, as it is still today. So acknowledge today and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

The Psalm for this week is Psalm 7:
O LORD my God, in you I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.
O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
if I have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause,
then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. Selah
Rise up, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment.
Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you, and over it take your seat on high.
The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.
God is my shield, who saves the upright in heart.
God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
See how they conceive evil, and are pregnant with mischief, and bring forth lies.
They make a pit, digging it out, and fall into the hole that they have made.
Their mischief returns upon their own heads, and on their own heads their violence descends.
I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore