NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingReach out to the Adult Ministries Team Information and Sign Up for the Missionary Lunch Dinner with Delaney Driscoll On February 5th from 6:30 to 8:30pm.Information on 21 Days Worship & Prayer Night on February 4th from 5 to 7pm in the Student Center

Today's Passage: Galatians 4:19, Habakkuk 3:2Today's Prayer: O Lord, we have read in your word of your fame and your deeds. We have seen in our lives your fame and your deeds and we have seen in our church of your fame and your deeds.  We ask for more, here and now, in our time, for your sake. We are so thankful for our salvation and we ask for you to restore our joy in Your salvation.  Lord, it is all about You, it is all for your glory.  We are yours, shape us into your image day by day as we behold you. Would your voice be the loudest in our lives and in our church.  For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team 

Today's Passage: Hebrews 10:19-25Today's Prayer: Lord, we love at all because you have loved us. We make room for you, Jesus. Will you animate us to deep, costly love for each other? Quicken within us a heart that finds it easy to love our neighbors, our neighborhood, our city, our basketball team, our department, our world. Jesus you have made a way for us. May we make a way for others saying “There is room for you. There is room for you. On the darkest day, there is room for you. At the bottom of the pit, there is room for you.” And may we never forget it for ourselves. Because of you Jesus.  For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team 

Today's Passage: Matthew 25:34-36, 40Today's Prayer: Father, you are so close to the poor.  You even identify yourself with them.  You are concerned with their needs; you fight for those that are oppressed and you have called us to follow in your steps.  We ask that you would break our hearts for what breaks yours.  We ask that you would slow us down, open our eyes, and attune our hearts to the plight of those on the margins. Lead us into meaningful relationships with those in poverty.   I pray that we would be a people marked by compassion that leads to action, that we would take seriously the call to take care of the poor, that we would be openhanded with our lives and our resources, to literally feed those who are hungry, to clothes those who are naked, to shelter those who are alienated and alone.  May our hearts be obedient to our new mission, willing to be uncomfortable, to risk, to sacrifice for those suffering from poverty, for You Jesus.  Destroy the stereotypes, the negative thoughts, and the busyness in our hearts and lives that keep us from being close to You and those in need. May we truly, truly love our neighbors as ourselves.   For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team 

Today's Passage: Micah 6:6-8 Today's Prayer: Christ Our King,  Our world is overtaken  by unexpected calamity,  and by a host of attending  fears, worries, and insecurities.   We witness suffering, confusion,  and hardship multiplied around us,  and we find ourselves swept up  in these same anxieties and troubles,  dismayed by so many uncertainties.  Now we turn to you, O God,  in this season of our common distress. Be merciful, O Christ, to those who suffer,  to those who worry, to those who grieve,  to those who are threatened or harmed  in any way by this upheaval.  Let your holy compassions be active  throughout the world even now—  tending the afflicted, comforting the brokenhearted,  and bringing hope to many who are hopeless. Use even these hardships to woo our hearts  nearer to you, O God. Indeed, O Father, may these days of disquiet  become a catalyst for conviction and repentance,  for the tendering of our affections, for the stirring  of our sympathies, for the refining of our love. We are your people, who are called by you,  We need not be troubled or alarmed. Indeed, O Lord, let us love now more fearlessly,  remembering that you created us, and appointed us  to live in these very places,  in the midst of these unsettled times.  It is no surprise to you that we are here now,  sharing in this turmoil along with the rest of our society,  for you have called your children to live as salt  and light among the nations, praying and laboring  for the flourishing of the communities where we dwell,  acting as agents of your forgiveness, salvation,  healing, reconciliation, and hope,  in the very midst of an often-troubled world.  And in these holy vocations  you have not left us helpless, O Lord,  because you have not left us at all.  Your Spirit remains among us. Inhabit now your church, O Spirit of the Risen Christ.  Unite and equip your people for the work before them. Let us be willing to share in your suffering, serving  as your visible witnesses in this broken world.  For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team 

Today's Passage: Mark 2:1-17Today's Prayer:  PSALM 116:3 - “I will lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord.”Jesus, we hold out to the world the only hope we have: New Life through you. May we, who have tasted and seen that you are good, offer the same precious drink to those around us who do not know you. ROMANS 10:14 "How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? “Jesus, make our life a megaphone for your grace and glory. Put us in the path of people that are far from you, that we may - through patient friendship and well-earned trust - offer to them what they are most after: You. And , finally, JOHN 20:21 "Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” Jesus, you do not have me in this world to simply indulge in my own salvation. Send me like you went: Into the lives of those who are from you. So that they, by your grace, may come to fully know you - the Savior of the World. For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team 

Today's Passage: Matthew 9:18-22 Today's Prayer: Lord, as we go about our days, planned and scheduled, let our hearts not see discipline as our righteousness.  If discipline masks the idolatry of control, may we humbly submit to the perfect timing of the Lord.  May we imitate Jesus who embraced interruptions and those who were causing the interruption with compassion.  Let us remember that some interruptions are far more than delays – that You, in your perfect goodness, create holy divine moments out of what we are quick to consider interruptions to our day. Moments where we can tend towards others with supernatural compassion.  When we aren’t planning on the change in direction, let us listen to the Holy Spirit for how you may be moving.  Turn our heads to those whose hearts need tending. Turn our heads to the broken hearted. Turn our heads to the lonely. Turn our heads to those lost in darkness.  For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team 

Today's Passage: James 4:13-17Today's Prayer: Lord, You alone are the Author or our lives, and you alone order our steps.  You call us to remember that our time on earth is “a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” Will you to remind us today that our time belongs to you and that your ways are always greater?  Remind us today our own ways, our own plans, may seem fruitful in the eyes of the world but that Your ways will produce everlasting fruit. As we consider how we spend our days, would you bring to our attention areas where we are reluctant to offer you full control? Would you lead us in repentance and help us turn our hearts toward you? Thank you, Father, for graciously allowing us to join you in your work.  Open our eyes to those around us. Open our eyes to those who are hurting and searching. Open our eyes to where you are at work. Let us not neglect the work we know we are called to in your Word.  As we go about our days, let our words “always be gracious, seasoned with salt” as you instruct us in Colossians chapter 4. Let us speak your truth in love. And let us remember that our actions often speak louder than our words. Lord, we place our schedules in your hands today. Lead us. Reveal where you are at work. Give us the strength and wisdom we need to join you in your work today. For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team 

Today's Passage: Romans 12:10Today's Prayer: Father in Heaven, the God of all glory and honor. Worthy of all worship and praise.  You are the God who has bestowed your honor and glory upon your people. Through the person and work of your Son, Jesus Christ, who now resides in us through the Holy Spirit, we are agents of your grace and temples of your glory. What a privilege and joy!  We ask that you’d make us people who see the ways your glory is at work in those around us.  To be people who call out and honor the ways you’re making others more like your Son.  To be people who really do outdo one another in showing honor.  We need your help to do this. Holy Spirit, we cry out asking for the power necessary to faithfully live this Gospel implication out. We are powerless apart from your presence.  Help us be a people, a Church of honor in a world of shame and criticism. To reflect your beauty and glory to a watching world. To live in a way that makes your Gospel even more attractive.  We simply want more of what you have for us. We simply long to be more like Jesus. In His Name we pray.  For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team 

Today's Passage: Philippians 2:1-8Today's Prayer: Oh, Father, how challenging a call to be like Christ. Oh, how much I grasp for my own peace and security...  Yet, again, I’m reminded that the ability to consider others above myself is only done through the truth that I am encouraged, comforted, cared for, and loved by the deep well that is Christ Jesus.   May this prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi be our guide as we continue to seek him in this day of prayer and fasting...   Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred, let me bring love.  Where there is offense, let me bring pardon.  Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.  Where there is despair, let me bring hope.  Where there is darkness, let me bring light.  Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.   O Master, let me not seek as much to be consoled as to console,  to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.   For it is in giving that I receive, it is in self-forgetting that I find, it is in pardoning that I am pardoned,  and in dying that I am raised to eternal life.   For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.NOTES & LINKS:21 Days of Prayer and Fasting WebsitePDF Guide to Prayer & FastingAs part of the 21 days, we're committing to 21 days of 24/7 prayer. Sign up here.Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team