Prayer Chain

LOOKING AHEAD:

This year’s theme for the May 1 National Day of Prayer is: POUR OUT TO THE GOD OF HOPE AND BE FILLED Romans 15:13

 

Prayers for our nation have a long history. Since 1775 when the Continental Congress asked the colonies to pray for wisdom in forming a nation, to President Lincoln’s proclamationin 1863 saying: “We have been preserved in peace and prosperity - but we have forgotten God”, followed by a 1952 joint resolution in congress declaring an annual National Day of Prayer, to a permanent setting declared by President Reagan in 1988 that an observance of a National Day of Prayer would be held on the first Thursday of every May, we have lifted prayers for our country.

 

A display and materials to distribute will be found in the narthex in the last week of April. Everyone is encouraged to take materials including Prayer Guides to distribute among neighbors or in apartments or condos where you live. Take time to pray for our country on May 1st.

 

National observances will be announced by the National Day of Prayer Task Force and information will be available at  www.nationaldayofprayer.org

 

 

Ecc. 4:9, 10 -"Two are better than one. ...For if they fall, one will lift up his

 

companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up."

 

                                           (PRAY WITHOUT CEASING)

Prayers are shared by email with all members of the chain immediately upon receiving a request. Members do not delete or add anything to the request. Members are bound to keep the request confidential, among prayer chain members only. When receiving a

request, the person is asked ifPastor Engler knows or if they would like him to know.

 

“And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us.” John 5:14

 

We encourage everyone to establish a set time and place each day for Bible reading and prayer. As Pastor Engler suggests, take your church bulletin home and re-read the scripture readings and hymns that have been selected for that particular time and season.
We who participate in the prayer chain feel a benefit in sharing others’ burdens and joys, trusting that “When two or three come together in my name, there I am with them. “(Matt.18:20)

 

 

 

 

                                     

 

 

                                           (PRAY WITHOUT CEASING)