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This Sunday, September 5, is the final Summer Garden Service of the season. Don't miss this opportunity to worship outdoors before we kick off our fall season!
Kirk offices will be closed on Monday, September 6 in observance of the Labor Day Holiday. Regular business hours (Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) will resume on Tuesday, September 7.
A special expanded edition of the September Kirk News will be mailed to members and includes information about new service times and expanded Sunday School options, all beginning on Sunday, September 12!
Our Summer Carillon Series concludes this Sunday, September 5 with recitals at 10:00 a.m. and noon by Kirk Carillonneur, Dennis Curry.
Message from the Prayer Cordon - August 2, 2010
Prayer is such a basic Christian discipline, yet every single one of us would like to be more effective in our prayer lives.
Instead of asking God over and over for what he has already given us, why not thank him for his gifts to us and ask him
to help us use them to bless others?
In Paul's letter to the Ephesians, he provides some great insight about God's gifts to us. He shares that, as Christians, we already have spiritual equipment. God has already blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ (1:3). God has called us to an eternal hope (1:18). We have a rich inheritance (1:18). His power is available to us who believe (1:19). Jesus tells us more in John 14:17, "But you know him (the Holy Spirit), for he lives with you and will be in you." With God's eternal hope, a rich inheritance, his power, and his spirit within us, we are fully gifted for kingdom service.
Yet again and again, we Christians spend a lot of our prayer time asking God for what he has already provided. We ask for blessings, hope, power and the Holy Spirit. Perhaps we do not fully believe what God has already done for us. It really forces the issue, doesn't it? Do we choose to believe God's promises in the Bible, or do we choose doubt and unbelief? Okay, if we're honest with ourselves, sometimes we'd rather believe what our senses tell us over what God tells us in the Bible. But doesn't that kind of choice lead to really half-hearted prayer? After all, a prayer offered in doubt doesn't say much about the confidence of the person offering the prayer. Rather than plead with God for what he has already given us, why not thank him in faith for what the Bible has promised?
Now that we have every reason to be confident of what God has already done for us, let's learn to ask God to use us in making his promises (the Bible is full of them) come true in the lives of others around us.
At the Prayer Cordon we are learning to thank God for what he has already done for us and ask him to show us how we can help others. We invite you to join with us in praising and thanking God for his amazing creation and everlasting love toward each of us.
For more information about the Prayer Cordon, click here.