Prayer for Today, Saturday, July 16

Most Amazing God,

Life is a journey through the valleys and sometimes over the mountain tops. Our path has many twists and turns. There are times when the travel is easy and there are times when we don’t think we can take another step. Sustain us when the road is bumpy and uncertain, we pray. Help us to find our inner strength and courage when we don’t know what is around the bend ahead. May we rejoice and give You thanks each day, regardless of where we find ourselves and may the Spirit of the Christ be our companion on the way. In Jesus’ name we pray. AMEN.
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Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Shira Shirley, who died quiet unexpectedly sometime Thursday night.

We also offer our prayers for the family of Jacob Burrell who died in a vehicle crash in Oklahoma City yesterday morning.

Please continue to pray for Sue McClendon, who is in St. Mary’s hospital recovering from a stroke.

Please also pray for the Church Leader’s Retreat that occurs today from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Christian Church of the Covenant. All participants are to enter the church from the east.

The scripture for today is Romans 6:15-23:

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore