KINGDOM PRAYERS FOR THE
WEEK OF JULY 22, 2024
FMC PRAYER: Father, this week we lift up our elders to You. Thank You for placing Bryan, Sherri, Josh, Steve, Garrett, and Jack as the elders of FMC. Help us respect and honor their decisions as they lead this local body closer and closer in relationship to You. May they wholeheartedly give their attention to prayer and the ministry of Your Word in their every day ordinary lives. Keep them above reproach, devoted to their families, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable and able to teach. May they be gentle and honest as they lead Your people in word and deed.
SUNDAY’S SCRIPTURE: Joshua 4 ~ 12 Memorial Stones
FMC ENDSTATE: Throughout the Tri-State Region & Beyond…humility abounds…
Lord, when we come to You in prayer – we humbly come as wretched sinners. We are nothing but paupers and beggars who come to You with nothing to offer but our sin and our need for salvation. We recognize our lack of merit and our complete inability to save ourselves…Help us to recognize that every day so that we may constantly “die to self” and live as new creations through the death of Your Son (2 Corinthians 5:17). You exchanged our worthlessness for infinite worth, and our sin for righteousness. The life we now live, we live by faith in the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us (Galatians 2:20). THAT is true humility.
INVISIBLE CHURCH: Lord, deepen my faith and joy in the glories of Your gospel. Father, You know the multitude of sins I have committed in my life and even this past week. Help me hate my sin more and grow in grace as I contemplate what Christ has done to forgive me and free me from sin’s death grip. Open the eyes of my heart to see the glorious hope we have in Christ, Your love for all of the saints, and Your power at work in us who believe (Ephesians 1:18-21). Cause my heart to burn within me as we celebrate the gospel in song, learn and apply the gospel through the preached Word, and see the gospel in baptism and communion.
STUDENTS: Growth in Character and Hope – Father, we pray that You will help our students to understand what it means to rejoice in sufferings. We pray that You would make them resilient and persistent, more like Christ with every passing hardship, developing their character and leading them to hope in You alone.
SCRIPTURE: Romans 5:3-5 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
CARE: God Almighty – Your throne sits high above the dirt and decay of the world You have made, and yet – You choose to live among us, dwelling in our hearts and minds, acting through our fingers, toes, and voices. Your people are continually lost in the wilderness and we humbly fall face down before You now – asking You to once again heal our brokenness and lead us back to the promised land. Your Spirit has clothed us in garments that do not decay, so we ask that You would bring warmth and peace to those who desperately need Your physical touch today. In Your Son’s blessed name – we ask all these things. Amen.