Prayer for Today, Monday, July 25

Most Gracious God,

The Lord’s Prayer, from the lips of Jesus, prays that Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus’ words in the Gospel of John tell us that You love the world. The Book of Revelation suggests Your kingdom will reside in our midst. Draw us in, Divine Presence, to Your eternal embrace. Draw us in, O Lord, to Your present and future work in the world. May our focus be on ushering Your Reign into the present day and into our present culture as we care for the poor, proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind. May Your will be done. We pray in Jesus’ name. AMEN.
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Please pray for our 15 youth and 2 adults who left the church at 6:30 a.m. and are driving to Stillwater for Mission Camp. I told them, as they left, how proud we are of them. May they be safe. May they have a wonderful time.

Thank you to Sue and David Dell, who hosted 27 elders in their home yesterday evening. It was a very good meeting.

Danny Corn is home after receiving a pacemaker. He will return to work as soon as we receive a doctor’s release which states what he is capable of doing. Connie Oltmans will return from vacation on Wednesday. Thank you to Don Johnson, Suzy Floyd and John Wheeler for filling in the gaps.

Elbert Wheeler and Sue McClendon are still hospitalized. Please pray for them.

The Special Gifts Committee meets this evening at 6:30 p.m.

Remember VBS for all ages begins one week from today.

The scripture for today is Romans 9:30 – 10:4:
What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith; but Israel, who did strive for the righteousness that is based on the law, did not succeed in fulfilling that law. Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, “See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened. For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore