Prayers: August 2, 2020

Prayers

Pray in thanksgiving for God’s presence in our lives:

• Thank you, Lord, for Jesus, for His obedience has enabled my eternity.
• Thank you, Lord, for figuring out the plan to resolve the pandemic.
• Thank you, Lord, that when today doesn’t work out fruitfully, you give me tomorrow to try again.
• Thank you, Lord, that You can change the things I cannot.
• Thank you, Lord, that because I am yours, You are always with me.

Pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ:

• Those with ongoing health concerns, including those who have tested positive for COVID-19.
• Those in nursing or homebound care.
• For spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional protection for all the front-line coronavirus caregivers.
• For those trying to figure out what school and work will look like in their families in the fall.
• To know that if we are praying about something, God is working on it
• For those struggling with meeting daily living needs due to the pandemic
• For joy and peace to refill a heart that has been disappointed
• For strength and power for our missionaries who face double the hardships in a pandemic world

Pray for CCC:

• Pray that we may use all the time that God gives us for worship and bringing him honor. Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses…. He sets the time for sorrow and the time for joy, the time for mourning and the time for dancing… Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 4 GNT
• That we may figure out how to carry out our church mission even if we aren’t able to meet in our building
• For patience and awareness as we wait for God’s marching orders on what we should be doing for His Kingdom
• For discernment for the Nominating Committee to select the best leadership candidates for next year’s Official Board
• For spiritual encouragement from upcoming one-day retreat on joy in the pandemic
• That we not give up on worship, prayer and study individually or corporately for we must be faithful as God is faithful

To Think About: In Proverbs, God’s guide to living, we are reminded that a fire lacking wood will die out, as will contention when a gossip stops telling tales.   As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.  Proverbs 26:20 NIV

禱告事項

感謝主每日同行：

• 感謝主耶穌，因着你順服父神，我能夠有永生。
• 為考慮應對流行病的解決方法感謝神。
• 當我今日的工作不見成果時，感謝主讓我有明天再嘗試的機會。
• 在我無能爲力的事情上唯有主你能改變。
• 因我屬你，你就與我常在。

為主內弟兄姊妹禱告：

• 為身體軟弱和接受治療的肢體，包括為遭受新冠病毒感染的病人禱告，願主醫治使他們盡快康復。
• 為老人院或居家需要特別看護的長輩們禱告，願聖靈的關愛、平安和喜樂與他們同在。
• 為工作在新冠病毒第一綫工作的醫護人員禱告，求神保守他們在身心靈和情感上的需要。
• 為今年秋季在家庭中需要合理安排自身工作和子女學習的關係禱告。求主幫助我們珍惜這寶貴的時間。
• 求主開我們的心眼使我們知道，當我們藉著禱告將心中關注的事情交在主面前時，主就在其中做工。
• 為面對由於新冠病毒造成日用所需缺乏的民衆禱告，求主眷顧。
• 求主的喜樂和平安再次充滿心灰意冷的心，
• 求聖靈的能力和力量保守宣教士在疫情汎濫的世界勝過面臨的雙重困境，繼續將福音傳遞到未得救的人中間。

為教會的需要禱告：

• 禱告我們能將神給與我們的光陰都用來敬拜和榮耀祂！凡事都有定期，天下万务都有定时.  哭有时，笑有时。哀恸有时，跳舞有时。  傳道書3：1，4
• 當我們不能在教堂見面時，求主引領我們履行福音事工的方式。
• 求助賜給我們忍耐和驚醒的心，等候主的命令和引領我們福音事工的方向。
• 為明年董事會提名委員會禱告，讓他們有能力提出最佳的提名候選人。
• 為8月22日的網絡退修會禱告，願它激勵我們靈命的成長。
• 讓我們不要停止敬拜、禱告、個人靈修和小組聚會，因爲我們的神是信實的神，我們也要誠實順服。

思考：上帝在箴言中賜智慧指導我們的生活，箴言26章20節說：“火缺了柴就必熄灭，无人传舌，争竞便止息。”