An online base for prayer and encouragement

Good afternoon on a sunny Monday to you all...

Wasn't last night a wonderful time of worship together? We were truly blessed to see our brother, Kevin Blue, take one more step into the calling God has placed on his life when he preached the Word at Theophany. Everyone with whom I spoke was so proud of Kevin, and I know that the Holy Spirit used Kevin to speak to my heart and life as well.

I thought that the blog would be a wonderful place for us to pass along support and love to Kevin for the Word he preached to us last night. We celebrate the gifts of the Spirit as a community, and I hope that we can extend that support across this blog.

I've also been thinking about how this blog might be useful for the upbuilding of our people and God's kingdom this week. It occurred to me that not every post need be a conversation about the Scriptures or theological subjects. Maybe this can be a place where prayer requests are given, where members of our community can drop in and include the requests listed here in their personal prayer lives.

As we begin posting the prayers we would lift as a community, I would encourage to pray "kingdom prayers." Indeed we are commanded to pray for the sick, the grieving, and the hurting; still, we often forget to pray for God's kingdom to come; to pray that non-Christian family members and friends would accept Christ as Savior and Lord. Consider what prayers are important to the heart of JEsus and offer these as a response to this posting. Let's see what God will do in the lives of his people when we commit ourselves to pray.

Jack