Prayer Service 10-26-22

Confession

1 Corinthians 13:1–4 (ESV)

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind...

1 Corinthians 13:7 (ESV)

7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Galatians 5:22–23 (ESV)

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

23 gentleness, self-control...

Ephesians 4:1–2 (ESV)

1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 4:31–32 (ESV)

31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Prayer of Confession:

Supplication

Psalm 86:15–16 (ESV)

15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

16 Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.

o Keith Garland: (Melissa’s Father) significant health problems.

o Ty Benton (David’s Father): Bladder Cancer

o David and Amber Benton: Wisdom in decision making with Ty

o Hope Sanders: Liver Problems

o Mark Watkins: Recovery from Surgery

o Monica Waldroup: Upcoming Surgery

o Amber’s aunt Sandra and family

o Allen Garver: Skin cancer, blood issues, diabetes

o David Jenkins: GI problems, possible H Pylori

o Gentry Trantham: Recovery from heart transplant

o Martha Orr: Leukemia

o Amy Lemon: Mercy, peace of mind; wisdom, competence for doctors.

o Vice Crisp: Bronchiectasis, other health problems.

o Randy Young (teacher at Mark’s church): Pancreatic cancer.

Thanksgiving

1 Timothy 1:13–16 (ESV)

13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

Romans 2:4 (ESV)

4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Romans 3:23–26 (ESV)

23...all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Prayer of Thanksgiving