Announcements
THANK YOU: Our family expresses its sincere thanks for all the tributes, prayers, cards, and encouragement during Mick’s illness and subsequent home-going. While we grieve his loss, we celebrate with him in our Lord’s promise: “… Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” Mollie Sprinkle and Family
SOUL-WINNER’S CLUB TRAINING: The next 12-week session for Fall/Winter will begin on Wednesday, August 27, downstairs in the Music Room at 7:00 p.m. Sign up today online through the Church website or at the Welcome Desk.
LADIES BIBLE STUDY: Joyful Connection invites all ladies to be part of our monthly Bible study in Room 417/418 beginning on Monday, September 8, at 6:45 p.m. Please sign up at the Welcome Desk if you are planning to attend. For more information, see Donna Baker.
DIVORCE CARE: is a Christ-centered program that helps people apply biblical principles as they heal from the hurt of separation and divorce. A new session begins on Tuesday, September 9, at 6:30 p.m. in room 201. Sign up at the Welcome Desk or online through the church website.
From My Heart
Prayer
By: Dr. Curtis Hutson
I have never tried to count all the promises in the Bible. Someone who has professed to do so says there are more than 30,000. And among these exceeding great and precious promises, there is probably no one so frequently repeated as the promise to hear and answer prayer. The expression “a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God” is one of the most common among Christians.
There is absolutely no substitute for prayer. Great preaching will not take its place, nor will a D.D. or Ph.D., nor a winsome personality, nor a well-planned and executed promotional program, nor anything else. Call the roll of history’s spiritual giants – all were men of much prayer.
- Hudson Taylor called it, “Transacting business with God.”
- Jonathan Edwards spoke of “storming Heaven by prayer.”
- Charles Finney said, “Be full of prayer whenever you attempt to preach...”
- E. M. Bounds wrote: “...we can curtail our praying and not realize the peril until the foundations are gone. Hurried devotions make weak faith, feeble convictions, questionable piety. To be little with God is to do little for God.”
- C. Dixon expressed the need of prayer thus: “When we depend upon our money, our teaching, our education, our preaching, we get what these can do...but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.”
Prayer has divided seas, rolled up flowing waters, made flinty rocks gush into foundations, quenched flames of fire, muzzled lions, disarmed vipers, marshaled the stars against the wicked, stopped the course of the moon, burst open iron gates, conquered devils, commanded legions of angels down from Heaven. Prayer brought one man from the bottom of the sea and carried another in a chariot of fire to Heaven. WHAT HAS PRAYER NOT DONE!
Believing prayer reaches the ear of God! Prayer is the key that unlocks God’s treasure-house. Through prayer, we can claim the world for Christ.
Oh may He who said, “Men ought always to pray, and not to faint,” teach us all to pray!
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