Back to School Prayers

As my kids returned to classes yesterday I found myself sending extra prayers. The more I thought about it there are so many more things to pray about for the school year than just my kids. Here are the ones that have come to my mind to pray. Feel free to add any you may have as well. If I have more come to me I'll update the post.

• I pray that any child, staff/ faculty member, bus driver, commissary worker or anyone else in a school building that does not know you today would be enlightened to the gospel.
• I pray for safety from harm of any kind in the schools
• I pray for safety on the roads as everyone heads to and from
• I pray that students and adults who are following Christ would be encouraged and shine brightly
• I pray that teachers and office staffs would have wisdom in dealing with each situation that may come their way
• I thank you for blessing us and entrusting us with our kids
• I pray that you shield the hearts and minds of those who would be deceived or destroyed from the evil one
• Help me to trust You with my child's safety and well being
• Help each student build bonds of friendship that will allow them to reach out to those who need You as well as those who will help build them up
• Help me as a parent be responsive to the needs that the teachers may have
• Help me as a parent respond appropriately to the needs of my children
• Make our family an instrument to impact the schools my children attend for the Kingdom
• Thy will be done...

Thought for the day -- August 16th

Don't let what's wrong with you keep you from worshipping what's right with God

-- Mark Batterson

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Thought for the day -- August 15th

If Christ does not reign over the mundane events in our lives, He does not reign at all.

--Paul Tripp

Thought for the Day -- August 13th

Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

–John G. Lake

Thought fo rthe day -- August 12th

Worship is the highest act of which man is capable. It not only stretches him beyond all the limits of his finite self to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens him at the deepest level of his being to an act which unites him most realistically with his fellow man.

-- Samuel H. Miller

Thought for the day -- August 11

He who is faithful in little will be faithful in much.

--Jesus Christ

Thought for the day -- August 9th

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,--that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

--Thomas à Kempis

Task Force Update

The following was included in a prayer chain email from yesterday... please continue to pray that God will meet the spiritual and physical needs of these men this week.

I’m grateful to report that the men working in Mississippi (Hurricane Katrina relief effort) are doing well in spite of the heat. At this point, they’re working on aluminum finish work on a house that had a tree fall on it, and then the roof blew off. They rebuilt the house, but still needed to have this part done on it. I’ll do my best to keep you informed

Thought for the day - August 8th

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

--Oswald Chambers

Mississippi Task Force

Please keep the 4 men below in your prayers this week as they serve at Hope City in Mississippi. They are working on construction of homes that were destroyed by Katrina. I will add any updates this week if we receive them.

Task Force members:
Mark Osborn
Brice Sell
Walt Sell
Pastor Bud

Thought for the day -- August 7th

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

--Kathryn Kuhlman