Posts by Danie Shallcross (Page 4)
Lent: Day 39
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU It’s Good Friday. Take some time today to remember the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. Give him thanks for the sacrificial love that brought victory for your life and for our world. Offer your life again to Jesus in thankfulness. Join us if you can for our Good Friday reflection at 10.30am online. 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them to see…
Lent: Day 38
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GROW. Today is Maundy Thursday, the day when Jesus washed his disciples feet just before he went to the Cross. How might you “wash the feet of the saints” by serving within the life of the church? If you’re not serving, ask God where He would like to you to get involved. If you are already involved in serving, ask God to bless and strenghten your work, to bring honour to Him. Why not join us…
Peacemaker
“Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the children of God” (Matthew 5:9) We live in a world that is broken and full of injustice. In just these past few weeks, we have mourned over the abduction and murder of Sarah Everard and been saddened to the core by the murder of members of the Asian community in the USA. It seems every time we turn on our TVs or pick up our phones we are greeted by…
Lent: Day 37
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GO. Ask the Lord to give us creative insight into how we can reach more people for Jesus. Pray for salvation and baptisms. Ask God to give you opportunities to speak a word for him, or to invite someone to church. Why not join us at Renew Well – prayer on Zoom at 10.45am, 1.15pm, 2.45pm. 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them…
Lent: Day 36
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GROW. Please pray for our Leadership Team. Ask God to bless their unity, sharpen their spiritual discernment, root their servant-heartedness, and embolden their leadership. Pray that God show us the people “who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom” (Acts 6:3) who might join the team. 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them to see his love and to bring…
Lent: Day 35
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GO. Pray about who you could invite to our Easter Sunday morning celebration or Easter Sunday Live. Why not join us for our Zoom prayer gathering this evening at 7pm. 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them to see his love and to bring them into a real relationship with Jesus as Friend, Saviour and Lord. MY BIG ASK Pray for the one…
Lent: Day 34
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GLORIFY. Pray for our worship groups and the AV teams, that together they will offer the best they have to God, empowered by his Holy Spirit. Pray that, together, we will be a people who delight to worship God. Pray that, as people join us for worship, they will encounter the presence of the Living God. Why not join us tomorrow for our Sunday prayer gatherings on Zoom – 10am to pray for our Sunday morning…
Lent: Day 33
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU Why not join us for prayer on Saturday morning at 8.30am on Zoom. We will be praying especially for blessing and healing. 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them to see his love and to bring them into a real relationship with Jesus as Friend, Saviour and Lord. MY BIG ASK Pray for the one thing you want to ask God for throughout…
#checkyourheart
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” (Matthew 5:8) “To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something beautiful for him” (Mother Teresa) For me, this is potentially one of the most challenging of the beatitudes. I mean, they are all pretty challenging, but this one…
Lent: Day 32
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GATHER. You are invited today to seek God through prayer and fasting, and to join us this evening at 7.30pm as we look to discern together what the Lord is saying to us at this time. Why not join us at 7pm tonight for half an hour of prayer on Zoom. 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them to see his love and…
Lent: Day 31
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GATHER. Please pray for guidance, resources and energy for our ongoing buildings work. Ask God that our buildings would be a great resource in our calling to be “A Community Living To Make Jesus Known.” Why not join us at Renew Well – prayer on Zoom at 10.45am, 1.15pm, 2.45pm. 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them to see his love and to…
Lent: Day 30
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GATHER. Pray for our students and for the work of Roots. Ask that Broadway would be a blessing to our students, and that they would grow into a mature, spirit-filled, resilent faith. Ask God to bless them in their studies, particularly in the light of the disruption caused by Covid in this academic year. 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them to see…