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To: Prayer Partners Our theme verse is, Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him (Colossians 3:17). We stand two weeks away from Easter. Sunday begins a week called Passion Week. May we find a spirit of gratitude in our hearts, giving thanks to God the Father through him. God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them (2 Corinthians 5:19). The cross is a clear picture of God’s great love for us. God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). William Nevell expressed the depth of God’s love with these words: Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan! Oh, the grace that bro’t it down to man! Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span At Calvary (At Calvary). Take time to concentrate on the cross. Think about the purest and best person who ever lived, Jesus. Consider His willingness to shoulder your sins, transgressions, iniquities, wrongdoings, foibles, selfishness, stubbornness, and rebellion. Alas, and did my Savior bleed, and did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head for sinners such as I? (At the Cross, Isaac Watts). Amazing love! How can it be that Thou, my God, should die for me! (And Can It Be, Charles Wesley). There on the cross the Savior took the things we regret, the things we cannot change, the things we wish we could forget the things that haunt us and hurt us, and was sacrificed to cancel their power over us. How can I say thanks for the things You have done for me—Things so undeserved, yet You give to prove Your love for me (My Tribute, Andrae Crouch). The only way we can begin to say “Thank You” with depth and meaning is to translate our thanksgiving into thanks living—doing all in the name of the Lord Jesus. At the foot of the cross in the privacy of your heart, ask God to show you a relationship where a word could make the Christ-difference in the way your life relates to someone else or the way that person’s life relates to you. Ask God to reveal to you where a deed, large or small, can serve God by serving one of His children. Ask God to show you how to give, live your thanks. This Sunday we will explore Philippians 2:6-8 and consider the meaning of the cross of Christ. Pray for our people to experience a personal connection to the Lord Jesus Christ as the work of the cross is laid before them. Below the cross several people will be baptized in the early service and in the evening service. Pray for their faith stories and their baptism identifying them with Christ Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection to touch the lives of pre-believers as well as people of faith. Pray for a sense of the powerful presence of the Lord to permeate our services. We give thanks to God for the opportunity of sharing faith with pre-believers. Pray that Christ will come to life in their hearts. Let us also pray for the people who attend our church and do not know Jesus as Savior, and for the salvation of the parents of children in Sunday School and Kindergarten. We are grateful for the fact that our Heavenly Father is the Great Physician. We put before him our known sick and ask for His work in their bodies and souls Giving thanks to God the Father through him…are words that remind us that our prayers are heard out of our relationship with Jesus Christ. Is there any part of your relationship with Jesus Christ you need to address? Think for a moment. Do you need to pray... Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me…Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit…O Lord, open my lips (Psalm 51:10, 12, 15)? I hope you will join me in praying for KIBC:
Thank you for your prayers. God bless you.
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