Prayer for Today, Sunday, October 24

God of All Seasons,

We celebrate this time of year. The weather is turning cooler and the leaves are beginning to change. It is a glorious season and we are blessed. Thank you for the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for those moments that take our breath away. We know, O God, that you are with us through the seasons of the year and the seasons of our lives. May we pause to give You thanks each day. In Jesus name we pray. AMEN.

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Pam Baldwin asked for prayers for a friend’s newborn that has a blood disorder and is in Children’s Hospital in OKC.

Please continue to pray for Terry Jones, Alta Mae Birkenbile, and Birdene Schoonover.

Gene Carlson was dismissed from the hospital, but he still needs our prayers.

Please pray that we love each other, avoiding harsh comments and discord, so that Jesus words will live through us when he said. “Show them you are my disciples by the way you love one another.”

This week please do random acts of kindness for others at church.

We have a “spot” airing on KGWA and KOFM inviting people to church. It will run through the end of the month. Have you heard it?

The scripture for today is 2 Peter 1:16-21:

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty. ¹⁷For he received honor and glory from God the Father when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, my Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.”¹⁸We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven, while we were with him on the holy mountain.

¹⁹So we have the prophetic message more fully confirmed. You will do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, ²¹because no prophecy ever came by human will, but men and women moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore