Prayer for Today, Monday, July 4

O God of All Nations,

We rejoice and give You thanks for the wonderful blessings we in the United States have received. We have abundant resources, a profound history, and a great people. May we be united in the cause of liberty and justice. We thank You for all those who have served this country in times of war and in times of peace. We thank you for the military personnel, the Peace Corps members, the diplomats, and the statesmen. There are times, o God, when we, as a people, have not lived up to the standards and goals of our fore bearers. We confess our sins. Please forgive us. Set us on the right path, dear God. May the power and influence of this great county be used for good, tolerance and peace. We offer this pray in Jesus name, AMEN.
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This is the day the Lord has made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

We welcome the Monsees family into the membership of Central Christian Church.

Please have a joyful and safe July Fourth holiday.

The church office is closed today and I am now on vacation.

The scripture for today is Romans 1:8-17:
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world. For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers, asking that by God’s will I may somehow at last succeed in coming to you. For I am longing to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as I have among the rest of the Gentiles. I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish—hence my eagerness to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”

Grace and peace,

John McLemore