Seven Ways to Pray for Your Prayer Life

These seven ways are from a recent blog by Tim Challies.  You can read more about each of them by going to his blog article listed below.

1. Pray that your prayers would be the expressions of a humble heart.
2. Pray that God would remind you that he doesn’t want or need your eloquent prayers.
3. Pray that you would remember what the really important requests are.
4. Pray that you would remember biblical examples of answered prayer.
5. Pray that God would give you confidence in his sovereign power.
6. Pray that God would help you to persevere in your praying.
7. Pray that God would encourage you that he is your loving Father and will give you only what is good. 

http://www.challies.com/resources/seven-ways-to-pray-for-your-prayer-life

Lord Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11
http://www.emmanuelbaptist.com/discovering_jesus2
Pick up a prayer book mark in the foyer.

Prayer is not about asking and getting stuff from God.
Prayer is about depending upon and listening to God. 

May our worship of God and not ourselves mark our prayers.

Pray for wisdom, contentment and generosity

These prayer prompters were adapted from the following blog: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2011/07/17/generous-and-content-with-our-money/

Lord,
Remind me over and over again of the truth in Proverbs 4:7 "The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight."  -  Seek Financial Wisdom (check out Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace)

Remind me over and over again of the truth in Hebrews 13:5 "Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'" - Pursue Contentment (1 Timothy 6:6-10)

Remind me over and over again of the truth in Psalm 37:21 "The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives" - Be Generous (1 Timothy 6:17-19)

God, you have provided all that we will ever need (Rom. 8:32). 
You also care for grass (Matt. 6:28-30) and birds (Matt. 10:29),
so "we can be content with or without stuff." 

You have been "infinitely generous with us in Christ so, rich or poor, we can be joyfully generous in a way that makes our neighbors scratch their heads and say, 'Who are these people?'"

how to stir up genorisity...

Tomorrow (04.15)...
Pastor Duke will be preaching from 2 Corinthians 8:8 - 15.
And we will be taking an offering for the Luce family in Australia.

HE HAS RISEN!!! Jesus Lives!!

Read 1 Corinthians 15 as you listen to this song from Sunday morning.

The Truth of 1 Corinthians 15

"Death has been swalled up in victory"  1 Cor. 15:54

"THANKS BE TO GOD!  HE GIVES US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST."
1 Corinthians 15:57

Question for this Easter: How do we know?

How do we know we've been forgiven?
How doe we know that we have been made clean?
How do we know we'll go to heaven?
How do we know we've redeemed?

Because of what Jesus has done!!!

Live to Give

This month Pastor Duke is preaching a series entitled "Live to Give."  This series is about more than tithing.  We have already been challenged to live generously as it relates to finances and time.

During this month we are going to have three giving projects:
1.  The Luce family, our missionaries in Australia, have a need for a refrigerator (April 15)
2.  Groceries for Life has a need for syrup and breakfast cereals (April 22)
3.  Bring in your green church banks to help with the building project (April 29)

Each week before the project this webpage will include some specific things to be praying for each of the ministries.