Prayer for the City & Church: Jan 31-Feb 6
January 31st, 2011 by Stephanie
This week’s focus is on some current needs for our city and ongoing application of the recent sermons for our church. Please note the continued urgent prayer request for Liz James’ father and for some upcoming church events.
Prayer for the City:
- Pray for the city’s protection and safety during the coming cold and snowstorm this week. Pray for the extra city and social services that have been called to respond that they would provide sufficient resources to those in need. Pray that not a single person would be left on the streets during this time.
- Pray for the recent string of TTC accidents that have left 3 dead this month. Pray for the families of these victims to have comfort and provision during their time of grief. Pray for wisdom for the police as they investigate these accidents and for those responsible to own up to their mistakes. Pray for overall safety of those using the TTC and those operating it.
Prayer for the Church:
- Pray for our church to increasingly become one of unity and absent of divisions (age, status, ethnicity, socioeconomic, etc) that would cause us to only hang out with those who fit into our own category. Pray for more diversity of age, maturity, life backgrounds, vocations, etc. within our church that we may learn and grow from our relationships with one another.
- Pray for the upcoming Congregational Meeting (Feb 6) – for wisdom for the elders to know how to communicate the vision and direction of the church for 2011 to the congregation. Pray that this would be the start of a year of deep spiritual growth, maturity and unity within our church.
- Pray for the Skating event this Saturday – that it would be a time of good connections between both newcomers and old friends and would lead to deeper relationships among our church community.
Urgent Prayer Request:
Please continue to pray for a member of our congregation, Liz James, and her father, Bill, who has recently been diagnosed with a severe brain aneurysm and may potentially need surgery. The major concern is that his aneurysm could burst at any time. Her father is not a believer so please pray not only for his medical condition to be quickly healed but also for her father to surrender his life to Jesus as his Lord and Saviour. Please pray for peace and freedom from anxiety for Liz and her family (her mom’s name is Janet). Pray the this would be a time when the Lord invades her father’s life and brings him restoration and healing both spiritually and physically.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And He came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In Him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
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