Virtual Prayer Room
Give thanks for the positive way that the Virtual Prayer Room has been received by the congregation, pray that many would use it and would commit to prayer.
https://bit.ly/2ybwnab
Phone Burnside
Give thanks that the telephone sermon service was accessed 32 times over the weekend. Of course some of these could have been curious people just trying it out but it seems to be worthwhile. Pray that more people would use it. Give thanks as well that I was able to work out how to get it set up.
Care Homes
Continue to remember all the residents in the Care Homes and the extreme pressure that is being put on staff. The death toll due to Covid19 continues to rise and more needs to be done to protect residents.
PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR (In no particular order)
William Adams
Some of you may have noticed that a gentleman named, William Adams left a comment after the service on Sunday. Pray for William that he may be able to come to church after lockdown.
Sickness
There are a number of people who are ill at the moment, and others who have been bereaved, please pray
Thomas Sampson
We were praying for a friend of Jim and Ruth’s who is in ICU Antrim Hospital with Covid-19. Thomas has been improving slowly, he is still sedated and of course family cannot see him. Continue to pray that he responds to the treatment and pray for his family.
AN ARTICLE ABOUT A NEW BOOK ON PRAYER
Praying is the Most Practical Thing You Can Do
Rachel Jones - Author of Five Things To Pray
The irony of life in lockdown is that it’s precisely when the needs are at their greatest that we feel the least able to help.
The needs nationally are obvious and overwhelming. Yet those of us who aren’t key workers, medics or politicians feel powerless to help. We’re stuck at home, cleaning and baking while Rome burns. The solutions are out of our hands. All we can do is keep washing ours.
And the needs in your personal circle may feel just as overwhelming, and just as impossible to meet: exhausted parents you’re not able to watch the kids for, grieving friends you’re not allowed to hug, lonely people you can’t welcome into your home. Your heart goes out to your struggling friends, but you have to stay in.
For those of us who pride ourselves on being one of life’s “do-ers”, this crisis has been a humbling experience. We’ve been sent to the bench to watch the match, when what we really want to get back on the pitch. We feel so… useless. It’s incredibly humbling.
And yet in God’s economy, humble people are the most useful people to him. Because it’s humble people who are in the position to do the most practical, most powerful thing possible right now: pray.
We might be confined to our houses—“but God’s word is not chained” (2 Timothy 2 v 9).
We might have had our freedoms curtailed—but our Father “will do all that [he] pleases” (Isaiah 46 v 10).
Our little worlds might have stopped turning—but the Son is still “sustaining all things by his powerful word” (Hebrews 1 v 3).
In God’s economy, humble people are the most useful people
Throughout Scripture, God promises to work in response to the prayers of his people. And it’s driven by this conviction that TGBC are publishing Five Things to Pray in a Global Crisis. Like the other books in the 5 Things to Pray series, it works through 21 different prayer themes, taking a passage of Scripture and turning that into five short prayer prompts for each person or area of concern.
This little guide will help you to pray for your own heart, asking God to help you in the midst of your fear, loneliness, uncertainty and frustration.
It will help you to pray for loved ones—whether they’re sick or vulnerable, under your roof or far away.
It will help you to pray for those on the front line of fighting this virus: our government, healthcare system and key workers.
And it will help you to pray for your church family and your community during this unique season, as we ask God to do what only he can—to work through this crisis to grow his kingdom and bring glory to the Lord Jesus.
Can you imagine what God might do in your church, your community and your nation, if you spent the next three weeks earnestly asking him to be at work? And then consider that he is the one “who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work in us” (Ephesians 3 v 21)!
You’re not powerless to help in the face of this pandemic. Well actually, you are. That’s part of the point. But you have the ear of the One who is not, and you’re invited to come to him in prayer.
Give thanks for the positive way that the Virtual Prayer Room has been received by the congregation, pray that many would use it and would commit to prayer.
https://bit.ly/2ybwnab
Phone Burnside
Give thanks that the telephone sermon service was accessed 32 times over the weekend. Of course some of these could have been curious people just trying it out but it seems to be worthwhile. Pray that more people would use it. Give thanks as well that I was able to work out how to get it set up.
Care Homes
Continue to remember all the residents in the Care Homes and the extreme pressure that is being put on staff. The death toll due to Covid19 continues to rise and more needs to be done to protect residents.
PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR (In no particular order)
William Adams
Some of you may have noticed that a gentleman named, William Adams left a comment after the service on Sunday. Pray for William that he may be able to come to church after lockdown.
Sickness
There are a number of people who are ill at the moment, and others who have been bereaved, please pray
Thomas Sampson
We were praying for a friend of Jim and Ruth’s who is in ICU Antrim Hospital with Covid-19. Thomas has been improving slowly, he is still sedated and of course family cannot see him. Continue to pray that he responds to the treatment and pray for his family.
AN ARTICLE ABOUT A NEW BOOK ON PRAYER
Praying is the Most Practical Thing You Can Do
Rachel Jones - Author of Five Things To Pray
The irony of life in lockdown is that it’s precisely when the needs are at their greatest that we feel the least able to help.
The needs nationally are obvious and overwhelming. Yet those of us who aren’t key workers, medics or politicians feel powerless to help. We’re stuck at home, cleaning and baking while Rome burns. The solutions are out of our hands. All we can do is keep washing ours.
And the needs in your personal circle may feel just as overwhelming, and just as impossible to meet: exhausted parents you’re not able to watch the kids for, grieving friends you’re not allowed to hug, lonely people you can’t welcome into your home. Your heart goes out to your struggling friends, but you have to stay in.
For those of us who pride ourselves on being one of life’s “do-ers”, this crisis has been a humbling experience. We’ve been sent to the bench to watch the match, when what we really want to get back on the pitch. We feel so… useless. It’s incredibly humbling.
And yet in God’s economy, humble people are the most useful people to him. Because it’s humble people who are in the position to do the most practical, most powerful thing possible right now: pray.
We might be confined to our houses—“but God’s word is not chained” (2 Timothy 2 v 9).
We might have had our freedoms curtailed—but our Father “will do all that [he] pleases” (Isaiah 46 v 10).
Our little worlds might have stopped turning—but the Son is still “sustaining all things by his powerful word” (Hebrews 1 v 3).
In God’s economy, humble people are the most useful people
Throughout Scripture, God promises to work in response to the prayers of his people. And it’s driven by this conviction that TGBC are publishing Five Things to Pray in a Global Crisis. Like the other books in the 5 Things to Pray series, it works through 21 different prayer themes, taking a passage of Scripture and turning that into five short prayer prompts for each person or area of concern.
This little guide will help you to pray for your own heart, asking God to help you in the midst of your fear, loneliness, uncertainty and frustration.
It will help you to pray for loved ones—whether they’re sick or vulnerable, under your roof or far away.
It will help you to pray for those on the front line of fighting this virus: our government, healthcare system and key workers.
And it will help you to pray for your church family and your community during this unique season, as we ask God to do what only he can—to work through this crisis to grow his kingdom and bring glory to the Lord Jesus.
Can you imagine what God might do in your church, your community and your nation, if you spent the next three weeks earnestly asking him to be at work? And then consider that he is the one “who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work in us” (Ephesians 3 v 21)!
You’re not powerless to help in the face of this pandemic. Well actually, you are. That’s part of the point. But you have the ear of the One who is not, and you’re invited to come to him in prayer.
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