Pray for Sunday! Pray for Sunday! Pray for Sunday!

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

1 Timothy 2:1, “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;”

Not only do we pray with God’s intentions passing through us, but also with His desires passing through us. 

This is revealed in 1 Timothy 2:3-4: “God desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.” 

This means that God’s expressed desire is for all men to be saved. 

So when we pray, we not only touch the larger scale of God’s intentions for the church and the kingdom, but we also allow God’s desires for all men to pass through us. 

This includes God’s desires for everyone in your life–coworkers, neighbors, the mailman, the clerk at the grocery store, as well as your family members and relatives. 

Paul says that first of all there need to be supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings made for all men. 

In spending time with the Lord we can allow God’s desires for others to pass through us.

Effectual prayer is made up of desire. 

For example, we may want to see someone saved. 

Yet, if in our prayer our own heart is not deeply moved for that one, such a prayer will never move the heart of God. 

If we ourselves do not possess the desire to see someone saved, how could God’s desire ever be released in our prayer? 

Paul illustrated this principle when he said, 2 Corinthians 5:20, “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”

This indicates that God’s desires are not merely kept within Himself. 

They need a human channel to pass through. 

God’s desire to see the lost saved must be located within our very being. 

God’s desire must become our desire, culminating in our persevering in prayer for them.

Until Tomorrow 

With a Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Loretta Bailey – Funeral – Saturday at 1:00

Bill Lawhead – Hospital  

Charlene Shiflett

Darlene Thaxton

Richard Blount 

Tracy Ballard

Amy Garner’s Mother  

Ashley Burn’s Sisters

Barbara Shed’s Family 

Bill Moody 

Carol Lawhead 

Charlie Sessom – Waiting  

Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons 

Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom 

Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother

Hanna Hall – Pray For Grace

James Garner’s Brother, G’Son, & Daughter

Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister  

Larry Barker  

Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah  

Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter  

Mary Sims  

Marynell Ford 

Michael Stanley 

Nancy Brown’s Daughter  

Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom  

Pastor Stucke– Nikki’s Dad

Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend 

Ricky Stubbs  

Roseleigh Osborn  

Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son 

Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend

Sharon Blalock  

Sheila Simmons Cousin  

Tom Witcher