Prayer for Today, Tuesday, August 16

Faithful God,

Forgive us, O Lord, when we fail to laugh and have fun. Forgive us, Loving and Eternal Parent, when we take ourselves too seriously. You have given us the ability to cry and laugh. There are certainly appropriate times for both, but may we laugh today. Life can be full of so much joy. Even in the midst of trials and tribulations, may experience moments of glee. In Jesus’ name we pray. AMEN.
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Ruby Register, Judy Mason’s mother, is hospitalized because of a light stroke. Gene Mason fell and broke some bones and is recovering at home. Please pray for the Masons and Mrs. Register.

Randy McWilliams is home in Drummond recovering from his surgery. Everything went well.

Tim Simpson is doing a little better.

Tim McAnally is scheduled for back surgery Thursday.

Reuben Justice, Sam and Sandra’s son, is still hospitalized in Illinois.

Please pray for all our sick and hospitalized.

The Pastor’s Cabinet will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 p.m. in Room 109.

Today’s scripture is Galatians 2:1-10:
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain. But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. But because of false believers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us—we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you. And from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they actually were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) —those leaders contributed nothing to me. On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised(for he who worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me in sending me to the Gentiles),and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore