Prayer for Today, Tuesday, March 15

O Divine Presence,

You are with us in prosperity and You are with us during times of want. During this Lenten season help us to realize that prosperity and want are not just descriptions of the material life, they can also be descriptions of the spiritual life. We seek to be refreshed by the waters of the spirit, but sometimes the bucket comes up empty. Help us to realize that life giving water comes only from You through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Fill our buckets we pray, O God. May we stand under the waterfall of Your grace as we surrender ourselves to You. Help us to realize we can’t do it by ourselves. We trust in You, Loving God. In Jesus’ name we pray, AMEN.
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Please pray for Worth Bracher. His brother, Lowell, passed away. The graveside service will be at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday in El Reno.

Charlie Heller was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital yesterday with chest pains and was transferred to the Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City. Please pray for Charlie and Judi.

The Noon Bible Study meets today.

Lenten Morning Prayers are continuing each morning, Monday through Saturday, at 7:00 a.m. in the chapel.

Remember the Board Meeting, regularly scheduled for this Wednesday, has been moved to next Wednesday because of Spring Break.

The scripture reading for today is Deuteronomy 8:11-18 (same as the one in the Lenten Devotional Book):
Take care that you do not forget the LORD your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today. When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock, and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the end to do you good. Do not say to yourself, “My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.” But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore