See details on our Pray for the Lou page.ĭuring our regular Sunday School time at 9 a.m., we will work together onĭeveloping and maintaining a Rule of Life, which is a set ofĬommitments and habits designed to keep God intentionally integrated into ourĭays, weeks and years. This will include a prayer walk in the morning and an outdoor prayer gathering that afternoon. On Saturday morning, March 11, Chatham will participate in Pray for the Lou Day, a regional prayer event with opportunities to join in prayer with other St. Both Youth Group and Family Connection will begin their meetings by joining in this time of prayer. we'll move to the Worship Center for a time of prayer and worship to the Lord. to break our Wednesday fast together with a simple meal. ‣ Wednesday Fasting / Lenten Meal & Prayer Nightsįasting is encouraged during Lent, and this year we encourage observing especially Wednesdays as fast days.Įach Wednesday during Lent, we'll meet in the Activity Center starting at 5:30 p.m. Our observation of the 2023 Lent season begins on Ash Wednesday, February 22 and ends on Easter Sunday morning, April 9. Remembering Christ’s suffering and death during Holy Week and celebrating his Corporately, it is a time of preparation for Of your spiritual condition in light of the gospel and to seek a greater Practices to foster a deeper communion with God. Wilderness with Jesus by taking on a temporary limitation and adding spiritual Individual believers are encouraged to withdraw into the Lent is an opportunity for both personal and communal Lent isĪ time of repentance and rediscovery of God’s grace. The season of Lent, modeled after Jesus’ 40-day fast in the wilderness. If you would like to support the work of Gospel in Life, please consider making a gift.For centuries, Christians from many traditions have observed Help us to trust and obey you as our righteous king, and may your name be forever praised. Do you know that the King truly cares for you and all of your needs? Have you called on his name?Īlmighty God, we praise you that your Son is the king we all want and need that his compassion far outweighs anything we have ever seen. We can know that in Christ, prayers for the flourishing of his name and reign will mean peace and blessing for all. We can know that in Christ, we have a king who is not only concerned with our needs and suffering, but compassionately identifies with them. As followers of Christ, we can know that God has given us the One in whose name the needy, poor and helpless will truly find deliverance. Today many have lost faith in our leaders and distrust them all, while others spend their lives and money promoting this name or that name as the one who will finally save us. Prayers for the endurance of the king’s name were based on that expectant hope, that the king would fulfill his commitment to the weak, so prayers for him meant safety and happiness for all.įrom then until now, however, no king or leader has ever been able to fulfill these divine standards. The God of Israel is by nature a rescuer and helper to the helpless, so must the king be. Looking to the king for compassion and deliverance for the weak was not naive or wishful thinking, but a hope rooted in the character of the one who had anointed him. The king was viewed as the means by whom blessings came to the people from God and he was expected to uphold divine standards of justice and righteousness. This prayer was not only an acknowledgement of the king, but also expressed a set of expectations and criteria for their leader. May the whole earth be filled with his glory!Īt the inauguration of a king of Israel, the Israelites would offer a prayer like Psalm 72. On the tops of the mountains may it wave May there be abundance of grain in the land From oppression and violence he redeems their life,Īnd precious is their blood in his sight.Īnd blessings invoked for him all the day!
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