[Please join me in praying for the Church on Sundays this year.]
“We’re trying to sell Jesus and eternity with God to people who are living for the moment. They don’t even believe in heaven and hell. We need to ask – do you need peace? do you need healing? do you need delivered? If so, I have a Savior… ” – Kellie Copeland 1/27/23
God of the Universe,
You came to seek and save the lost, those who do not know you as Savior or seek you as Lord. You came to rescue us from our sinful natures and call us into relationship with you. You came to set us free. Yet, we don’t always realize all you offer us. We, your Church, don’t always act as if you have commissioned us for ministry. We confess that we do not always go and make disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ in the way you have called us to go. Help us to realize that the time is short; your return is nearer than ever and there are lost souls to come into the fold. Holy Spirit, help us be like the men of Issachar who could understand the times and know what to do. Help us show people you are God of their peace, their healing, their grace, their love, their forgiveness and so much more. Help them to see you beyond this moment, but to see you as their eternity. Help us to introduce them to you, their Savior, we ask in Jesus’s name, AMEN.
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” (Luke 19:10 NIV)
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” (John 8:36 NIV)
“Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” (Galatians 1:3-5 NIV)
“Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'” (Matthew 28:18-20 NIV)
“…from [the tribe of] Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do…” (1 Chronicles 12:32 NIV)