ABIDING IN GOD'S WORD: PRAYER SERVICE 12.29.2019

ABIDING IN GOD’S WORD

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John 8:31 ESV

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

John 15:7 ESV

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

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Colossians 3:16 ESV

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

COMMENTS: The value of reading through the Bible together, thankfulness for those who completed it, and and encouragement for us to continue to abide in God’s word daily.

PRAYER: For us to abide in God’s word daily and be committed to studying it our own.

LOVING AND HUNGERING FOR GOD WORD

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COMMENTS: continuing to be in God’s word can happen consistently if we have a real hunger for God’s word and a deep love for it. The more we have of God’s word the more of an appetite we develop for it as we “taste and see” how good it is.

PRAYER: For each of us to develop a deep hunger and love for God’s word that is greater than the things that often distract us. For our love for God’s word to develop into a daily habit of studying it.

LORD’S SUPPER

TRANSFORMED BY GOD’S WORD

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COMMENTS: The Holy Spirit uses His Word powerfully to transform our hearts and lives. Our belief in the transformative power of God’s word should also build our love and hunger for it and give us great motivation to study it daily.

PRAYER: For our belief in the power of God’s word to change our minds, behavior and lives as we immerse ourselves in it. For our confidence in God’s word to increase.

JESUS’ SACRIFICE AT THE CENTER OF GOD’S WORD

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COMMENTS: God blesses us through His Word in making Jesus the center, main character and center of His message to mankind. Through pointing toward Christ as the coming Messiah throughout the Old Testament, to detailing His life and sacrifice in the Gospels then point back to Christ’s life and Words in the epistles as our ultimate example and hope, God inspires us as we remember Christ through the Lord’s supper.

PRAYERS: For the bread and fruit of the vine and for God giving us His word that describes in such detail Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins.

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GUIDED BY GOD’S WORD

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COMMENTS: We have a great need to look past the unreliable guides that are all around us in the world and seek God’s guidance that He has given us in His word.

PRAYER: For us to trust God’s guidance over all the other influences in the world around us. To base our decisions and steps on the truth of God’s word.

BEING EQUIPPED BY GOD’S WORD

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COMMENTS: God’s word is powerful to change us but also equip us for the work God has for us to do and lives He commands us to live.

PRAYER: For each of us to look to God’s word and God’s Spirit to equip us to do His will and work in every area of our lives.

HUMBLY ACCEPTING GOD’S WORD AND DOING IT!

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COMMENTS: All that God offers us individually through His word is dependent on whether or not we are willing to humbly accept it as truth and do what it says.

PRAYER: For God to help us with humility, accept God’s word into our hearts and do what it says even when it is hard.

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