Posts by Danie Shallcross (Page 6)
Chocolate Buttons
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (Matthew 5:5) We all know what it’s like to feel hungry or thirsty. Right now, my tummy is grumbling at me, and I’m finding it difficult to not think about the packet of giant chocolate buttons I have stashed away in the kitchen. However, Jesus is not talking about your average, every day tummy grumble. He’s talking about a deep, deep longing. Think more like wandering…
Lent: Day 18
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GATHER. Pray for newer people in our church family. Ask God how you can get to know newer people and help them to be fully integrated among us. 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…
Lent: Day 17
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GO. Pray for our BMS link worker, Kalbassou Doubassou, working in Chad. Ask God to protect him and his family, to enable the work of the Guinebor II Hospital to flourish, and to use Kalbassou and the hospital staff to share God’s love in action and in words. Why not join us for our Zoom prayer gathering this evening at 7pm. For information on how to join us, please contact us via our contacts page. 5…
Lent: Day 16
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GLORIFY. “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14). Ask God to pour His Spirit on our Island, bringing its people into right relationship with Him. Why not join us tomorrow for our Sunday prayer gatherings in on Zoom –…
Lent: Day 15
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GO. Pray for Ros Stimpson as she continues her studies and prepares for her work with OMF in Japan. Why not join us for prayer on Saturday morning at 8.30am on Zoom. We will be praying especially for blessing and healing. For information on how to join us, please contact us via our contacts page 5 FOR 5 Pray for 5 people you know, who aren’t yet followers of Jesus. Ask God to enable them to…
Lent: Day 14
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GO. Pray for Graih. Ask God to move hearts and minds to provide a more stable long-term night shelter. Why not join us at 7pm tonight for half an hour of prayer in the Well Lounge. 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…
I’ve Got The Power
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5) I have always struggled a bit with this verse. The word “meek” conjures up images in my head of a timid, quiet, submissive, little mouse of a person, who wouldn’t say boo to a goose; someone who is basically a human doormat. Not really someone who I aspire to be, if I’m perfectly honest. So, imagine my surprise (and relief) when I discovered that this is not the…
Lent: Day 13
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. 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…
Lent: Day 12
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GROW. Pray for our youth and children’s work – Mini BiF, BiF, Tribe, Point, girls’ group, Aliens, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, First Steps, Little Acorns. We nearly always need new people to work among our children and young people. Please pray for people to get involved, and that everyone who serves among our children and young people will experience God’s joy. Pray that our children and young people will grow a deep and enduring faith. 5…
Lent: Day 11
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GO. Pray for people to respond to Jesus as forgiver of their sins and Lord of their lives, to be baptised, and to grow in maturity as part of the Church. 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…
Lent: Day 10
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GATHER. Pray that, when we meet on Sundays, in Life Groups, Prayer Triplets and in other contexts, we will be marked by love and honour towards one another. 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…
Lent: Day 9
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU GROW. Ask God to show us the spiritual gifts among us. Ask for an outpouring of new gifts, and that these would be used effectively to serve him … ” to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness…