OICE 2140 Highway 78 W. Oxford, AL 36203 P.O. Box 3323 256-831-0651 God Is Love, And He Who Abides In Love Abides In God, And God In Him Order of Worship Call To Worship Song # : Here I Am To Worship Prayer - Shaun Stancil Song Leader: David West Song #401: Christ’s Love Is All I Need (1,3) Song #: When Jesus Comes (1,2,4) Song #383: Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross (1,3) Communion & Offering Song #622: Ring Out The Message (1,3) Children dismiss to Children’s Bible Hour Scripture Reading: Bailey Livingston Luke 4:14-21 Message: John Ross Song #616: The Way Of The Cross Leads Home (1,3) Announcements Song #: Lead Me To Some Soul Today (1) Prayer - Richard Gaines June 25, 2017 Today: “Starting Over” Tonight: Open Gym Night after PM Worship Wednesday: Last Morning Bible Study for the summer—classes to resume in September Wednesday Night: Singing Night Contact Elder for June—Elton Carter 256-493-6120 BETTAVIEW
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OICE 2140 Highway 78 W. Oxford, AL 36203 P.O. Box 3323 256-831-0651
God Is Love, And He Who Abides In Love
Abides In God, And God In Him
Order of Worship
Call To Worship
Song # : Here I Am To Worship
Prayer - Shaun Stancil
Song Leader: David West
Song #401: Christ’s Love Is All I Need (1,3)
Song #: When Jesus Comes (1,2,4)
Song #383: Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross (1,3)
Communion & Offering
Song #622: Ring Out The Message (1,3) Children dismiss to Children’s Bible Hour
Scripture Reading: Bailey Livingston
Luke 4:14-21
Message: John Ross
Song #616: The Way Of The Cross Leads Home
(1,3)
Announcements
Song #: Lead Me To Some Soul Today (1)
Prayer - Richard Gaines
June 25, 2017
Today:
“Starting Over”
Tonight:
Open Gym Night after PM Worship
Wednesday:
Last Morning Bible Study for
the summer—classes to resume
in September
Wednesday Night:
Singing Night
Contact Elder for June—Elton Carter 256-493-6120
BETTAVIEW
Lord, Teach Me To Pray
I pray, but sometimes I think I don’t understand anything about it. I sometimes pray for good things, and they don’t happen. At other times, I pray for myself or oth-ers, but things still happen. How does prayer work? How do I know what to pray for?
Do questions such as these ever bother you?
Maybe at least part of our problem is in praying for wrong things. If that is the case, then I can certainly begin to see how praying could be confusing. When we are wrong-headed in what we ask, we can hardly blame God for fail-ing to answer. Let me try to make sense of what I am strug-gling to say. Back in the earliest days of the church, Peter and John were called before the religious authorities of Jerusalem. They were ordered to stop preaching about Jesus in the city. They were threatened that bad things would happen to them if they didn’t stop. Duly warned, they were released. When the two men got back with their friends, they report-ed everything that had happened. Then they prayed. “O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great bold-ness in preaching Your word” (Acts 4:29 NLT). My fear is that I would have prayed for something different like, “God, make the officials to back off.” Or, “Give me divine protection from them.” Or maybe, “Can I have a different ministry?” But they say anything like that. They prayed for boldness to say what Jesus had told them to say. Maybe you and I shouldn’t pray for more money and things; let’s pray instead for an ability to appreciate what we have, manage it wisely, and use it unselfishly. Maybe we should pray less to have our life-annoyances taken away; instead, let’s pray for patience and to know that God’s grace is sufficient, no matter what. Maybe we even should pray less about good health and success; we might pray rather to be content, dignified, and courageous in cop-ing with our challenges. It’s certainly within God’s will that we pray for daily bread and deliverance from trials. The model prayer from Mat-thew 6 tells us so. But even Jesus prayed for things in Geth-semane that He qualified with “yet not My will but Yours be done.” Sometimes God’s will is better done when one of His peo-ple bears a cross with courage rather than have her prob-lem eliminated. That’s why we surrender to His will over our own. That’s why we accept the mystery inherent in His will. When all is said and done, I should probably worry less about understanding the nature of prayer and simply pray.