Prayer for Today, Saturday, November 19

Holy Spirit of God,

We long for Your presence with us. May our eyes, hearts and souls be open to You this day. Your refreshing winds cleanse us of our despair, our anger, our greed, and our vengeful intentions. Sweep us away into the loving power of Your grace. May the tombs of our lives be opened, the stones rolled away, and new life emerge within us. This we pray in Jesus’ name. AMEN.

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Tomorrow is THANKSGIVING SUNDAY. Please join us for worship and a great luncheon.

Our Kids Central Director, Susan Hornberger, fell in front of her home yesterday and is pretty beat up with black eyes and a number of stitches in her face and head. Please pray for Susan.

Letha McGuire reports she has leukemia and has chosen not to seek treatment. Please support Letha with your prayers.

We are now in the holiday season. Pick up your holiday calendars and Advent Devotion Books at the Welcome Center. May this be a time of hope and great joy for you, your family, your friends and our church.

The scripture for today is Philippians 2:19-3:1:

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you. ²⁰I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. ²¹All of them are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. ²²But Timothy’s worth you know, how like a son with a father he has served with me in the work of the gospel. ²³I hope therefore to send him as soon as I see how things go with me; ²⁴and I trust in the Lord that I will also come soon. ²⁵Still, I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus—my brother and co-worker and fellow soldier, your messenger and minister to my need; ²⁶for he has been longing for all of you, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. ²⁷He was indeed so ill that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, so that I would not have one sorrow after another. ²⁸I am the more eager to send him, therefore, in order that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious. ²⁹Welcome him then in the Lord with all joy, and honor such people, ³⁰because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.

3Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a safeguard.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore