Prayer Update Day Six
Prayer Items:
- Guidance and assurance – Let’s always remember to pray for His continued guidance and wisdom, as we read His word and minister to those around us, that we may learn to rely more and more on Him everyday. Ask Him to search our hearts, to wash away all our sin and doubts, and help us to align ourselves more with His will each day, living in the assurance of His love and grace.
- Non-believers – Pray for those who continue to live in doubt and rejection, that one day their hearts may no longer be hardened against Him but instead humble themselves to receive His grace and mercy, through the work that He has begun in us. Also keep those who have not heard the word yet in prayer, that the Lord will open up new opportunities for us to reach out to them as well.
- New believers and those who have strayed – Pray that He will continue to protect and sustain these young believers, and to guide us to be good Christian brothers and sisters to them. Pray also for those who have drifted away from Him, that they will draw close to Him again, and He will remove the emptiness in their hearts, and their lives will truly be transformed into seeking after Christ’s likeness each day.
- The persecuted – People in countless countries, China, South Africa, Latvia, Nigeria, the Netherlands and Sudan, continue to be persecuted for their faith in the Lord. Let’s keep our fellow brothers and sisters around the world in prayer, that He will continue to strengthen them, end the corruption and suffering, and bring peace to these lands.
- ACS(I) – Pray that the Lord will continue to strengthen his faithful servants in sharing His love and His word in the school, that the new school term will bring with it new changes and joy in the ministry in seeing the Holy Spirit move through the school once again.
- Year 6s and others taking examinations – That those with important examinations coming up will find rest and be refreshed in coming before Him each day and lifting all their cares and anxieties unto Him, and truly just turn to Him more than ever.
Psalm of the Day:
Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Your sister in Christ,
Petrina Liam
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