May The Words Of Their Mouths . . .

Prayer time for the Children of the Body on Saturday focused on the words of their mouths. 


May they be a people who speak blessings.


May everything they speak bring Him Glory.


May they allow no unwholesome talk out of their mouths.


May they guard their lips and consider carefully before speaking.


May their speech be seasoned with Grace and Wisdom.


May the words of their mouths and the meditations of their hearts be acceptable in His Sight. 


May their words set them apart as His.


May they utter no gossip, criticism, or complaint, but be committed to building others up. 

A GENERATION OF SUPERHEROES Pt 8

Galatians 6:1-10

¹Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. ² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ³For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. ⁵For each will have to bear his own load.

⁶ One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches. ⁷ Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. ⁸For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. ¹⁰So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

• Cover each others back....& help restore fallen/wounded Christians!

• Sow to the Spirit & reap life....sowing to the flesh leads to corruption/death!

• Do not grow weary....the reward is coming!

• Take advantage of the opportunities to love....especially to other Christians!
  

Kingdom Men, Week 14

Father, thank You for Your goodness. Thank You for Your goodness displayed to me in my son. Thank You for our sons. God, we have lost some of the reality - the Truth - of our fatherhood. Please cause us to fully realize, to know and accept that we are fathers... that we may know and fully embrace fatherhood. Help us to know and accept You as Father.

Thank You for Your kindness, Father. Thank You for Your patience. Thank You that You train us and discipline us, Father. Thank You for being gracious and for never letting us go. You are so good, Father. Teach us to be like You. Free us and deliver us that we may be like You.

Help us to know You, God; and in knowing You may the veils be removed that we may resemble You.

Lord, please remove vanity and self-promotion from within the hearts and minds of Your men. That we would have no appetite for our own recognition and notoriety but rather a burning desire to see Your Name lifted high. That we would bow and give honor to You and who You are. May self-promotion wither at its root that we would live for Your fame. Remove our ambition. Speak to us our name and our identity that we would no longer seek for vain and corrupt replacements. God, may each of us hear You call us by name and, by Your grace, have the humility to bow - offering our lives in full surrender.

Restore the hearts of the fathers to their children. Restore the children to their fathers. God, restore the hearts of Your sons to You! Father, we are Your sons. we want to love You, to honor You. Restore our hearts to You. Restore Your sons, oh God. Bring restoration, Father. In the rain, God, bring restoration.

for the singles of the One Church of Midland

o hear the song of the silent single,
non-defined,
misled,
mystified
at what they must be doing wrong
to deserve to
remain
solo.

God, we lift up and up
the senior single here-
those that once loved
but lost that love,
some long, long ago.
God?
help them
face forward
where Life is found
as full as Life was
back then
let them see today can be.

God,
unaddict us to demanding lovers,
from getting weary of You--
waiting--
so they set out--selves--
to hunt alone,
getting picked off
and snatched up
by compromises waiting.

--for strategic partnerships!
-healing for the suffering single
-that they move in motivational gifts
-occupying their roles in The One Church

Passionate Worshipers

In praying today for the Children of the Body, the focus was on them becoming passionate worshipers. 


May they crave His Presence. 


May their worship be the context through which they see all of life, not the other way around. 


May they be willing to be foolish in the eyes of the world as they worship Him without shame, without reservation, with no guile in their hearts. 


May their worship be in complete humility so that there in no one around them who receives condemnation, but only conviction that draws them also into passionate worship. 


May they worship as they work, worship as they play, worship as they walk along their way. 


May they even reach the point where they worship in their sleep as they contemplate His Glory in their spirits. 


Only He can bring them to this point and we ask that He will do this thing in them and in all of us.

Married Couples in the Body

Faithfulness, faithfulness is what I long for
Faithfulness is what I need.
Faithfulness faithfulness is what you want from me.

This song sums up the prayer of my heart today for the married couples in Midlands part of the Body. I know that God has asked a lot of us to marry and give up ourselves (if we are doing it biblically) and to be faithful for a lifetime but that is my prayer today.

God, please cause us to be faithful, to YOU, to our spouses and our families. Lord please cultivate in us the ability to let go of things around us and faithfully serve our spouses and our children and first and foremost our Almighty God. Abba, I want to serve you wholeheartedly and I am flakey at best and indecisive and caught up in life as most of us are, please Father, help us to put it ALL away and focus on you so we can learn to be the spouse you have chosen for us to be. So that we can accomplish all that you have asked us too for You and for eachother. Thank you Jesus, Thank you for making a way for us to get through to our Father, for we would be lost without your sacrifice. i love you Father God, and I see that you are moving in a very unifying and wonderful way in the marriages that have been on rocky paths for a while! Thank you God, for loving us enough to pull us out of the mire that we have gotten our own faithless selves into. In Jesus' name, Amen

God,
i lift up
the singles of midland
again tonight.

You see.
let them know,
remind them that
You see.
all.
that You've not gone graciously blind,
nor are YOu content
to be a bland taste in their mouths.

shake!
awaken,
oh, God,
Father of all.

what has been brushed aside,
swept under,
feigned--
Lord!
reveal, Revealer!
that You may rebuild
what we have denied.

let lies arise
as what they are
in these lives
and be shown
in all their "glory",
then denied.

we cannot see
without Your Light,
oh God.
reveal, Revealer.
build, Rebuilder.
gather the scattered
and arise from the ruins
of what we have done
to ourselves.

beauty
for the ashes
from fires
we started ourselves...