Prayer
List
Don
Hickerson will have cataract surgery July 19th.
Don
Hickerson’s brother-in-law Louis Horn is in rehab.
Jack and
Ardina Butler from Wolfe City church Christ need our prayers.
Corey Miller
is having problems with his throat.
We need to
keep Kerry King’s mother in our prayers. She is scheduled to have a
heart cath procedure this week.
Jim Hallman
is having back problems.
Tabitha
Griffin has begun taking cancer treatments.
Gary
Hickerson is scheduled to have surgery Monday.
Gary Hodges
is not doing well.
Eddie
Griffin, Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and Betty Harris,
Billie Phillips, Billie Bradford, Betty Clark, Doris James, Jo
Gordon, , Thomas Mako, Audrey McKin, Beryl Miller, Carol Moore, Della
Price and Loretta Rhoden.
Serving in
the military:
Faith Balzen,
Cody Blomstedt,
Travis Counts, and
Dakota
Smitherman all are in the U.S. . .
Chris Johnson is in Kuwait.
Let us pray
for our country and government leaders and those who are in harms
way, military and civilian personnel.
“The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much…
Congratulation
to Katelyn and Brandon Hall in the birth of Parker James Hall born
July 11 weighing in at 7lbs and 15oz. Everyone is doing fine.
Annual
Texomaland Summer Youth Series will be at the Pottsboro church of
Christ July 18h at 7:30pm.
Pantry
Item: Cooking Spray We need to fill up our pantry. It
is really low.
July 23
Prayers: Morning: Butch Balzen – Don Baker
Evening: Don Harrington – Don Hickerson
Scriptures: Greg Counts
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“Pray
Without Ceasing”
By
David Shearer
This is a
short verse, “Pray without ceasing:” (I Thess. 5:17) isn’t
it? This is found in a list of short statements or commands such as:
“Rejoice always”, “in everything give thanks”…
Have you
ever thought about this command to pray without ceasing? I have read
it a lot of time’s as I’m sure you have, too.
Now ask
yourself this question. How does one pray without ceasing and put
this into action? When you ask this question it raises more
questions. At least to me it does. Am I to go around head bowed,
eyes closed bumping into every thing because I am praying all the
time? Well, probably not.
Quite
frankly, I had only given this a passing thought until the other day
I was speaking to a preacher friend of mine, Jim Holsten from Canada.
He shared with me some thoughts that I thought were practical on how
we might fulfill this command of praying without ceasing.
Incidentally, he got this idea from someone else who may have gotten
it from someone else and so on.
OK, here
it goes. God has given us a wonderful tool that we call our brains.
As we progress through our days we are constantly thinking about all
sorts of things. To be specific our thoughts may drift to a sister
who is ill and you may ask yourself, I wonder how she is feeling; you
may run across a friend you know from “Facebook.” The point is
we think all the time about different people, acquaintances,
ill, lonely, etc…
When you
think of these folks why not pray for them right then and there.
That is what Brother Jim shared with me the other day. Think about
that. A short prayer or long prayer depending on your time and
circumstance at the moment can be wonderful thing to do.
This is
something you can do, too. In so doing you will probably be drawn
closer to God and to those whom you are praying for.
Pray
without ceasing.
(Marshalltown
church of Christ)