13-September Opening

PRAYER FOR PERSECUTED

Most of us will only read of the type/scale of the physical slavery and savagery we’ll read of today in Exodus.

But there are reports of nearly 30 million in slavery today.

Before we get to our own personal experience, may this text give us pause to pray in earnest for our brothers and sisters around the globe who are being persecuted for being faithful disciples of Jesus - brutally tortured, arrested, imprisoned, with homes and communities laid to waste…this is a REAL THING

---EVEN NOW, WOULD YOU TAKE A MOMENT AND PRAY FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH? Pray for their

Faithfulness

Families

Fruitfulness

PRAYER FOR SERVICE

400 Prayers for Preachers Asking God’s Acceptance of Our Worship

Receive us graciously, help us by your Spirit; let your fear be upon us: let your Word come unto us in power, and be received in love, with attentive, reverent, and obedient minds. Make it to us the savour of life unto life. Cause us to be fervent in prayer, and joyful in your praises, and to serve you this day without distraction, that we may find that a day in your courts is better than a thousand, and that it is good for us to draw near to God; through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

RICHARD BAXTER