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(703) 680-1058 or send e-mail to
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There is also a site related to our denomination that
connects with our national prayer ministry and local churches. They
receive prayer requests as well.
The Praying
Church
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Prayers for Current Needs
Blessings all,
I wanted to share two prayers with you.
Jesus come into my heart,
Pray with me,
Pray in me-
That I may learn from You
How to pray. Mother Teresa
I offer this because I think there is no greater
teacher of prayer than Jesus. I yearn to ask him to teach me/us to pray as
the disciples did when he gave them the Lord’s Prayer. I am sure that our
prayers are in earnest, yet I wonder as we place ourselves in the presence of
Jesus how he will know us, prepare us and pray with us, in us and through us
in precious and powerful prayer.
"It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what
we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ...he had his eye on
us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is
working out in everything and everyone." Ephesians 1:11 (Msg) Father, I thank you that I/we am/are good ground, that
I/we hear Your Word and understand it, and that the Word bears fruit in my/our
life/lives-sometimes a hundredfold, sometimes sixty, sometimes thirty. I/we
am/are like a tree/trees planted by the rivers of water that bring forth fruit
in its season. Father, thank You for filling me/us with the knowledge of Your
will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that I/we may walk worthy of
You, Lord, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge
of You.
We pray this in the name of Jesus,
Amen
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Spiritual Center
[Devotions]
[New to Church? Coming Back to
Church?]
[What Do We Believe?] [Help
With Life Issues]
Inner stillness is an absolute necessity to truly
knowing God. I remember learning this during a time of great crisis in my life.
My entire being seemed to throb with anxiety, and the sense of need for
immediate and powerful action was overwhelming. Yet the circumstances were such
that I could do nothing, and the person who could have helped would not move.
For a time it seemed as if I would fall to pieces due to my
inner turmoil. Then suddenly "a still small voice" (1 Kings 19:12) KJV)
whispered in the depths of my soul, "Be still, and know that I am God" (Ps.
46:10). The words were spoken with power and I obeyed. I composed myself,
bringing my body to complete stillness, and forced my troubled spirit into
quietness. Only then, while looking up and waiting, did I know that it was God
who had spoken. He was in the midst of my crisis and my helplessness, and I
rested in Him.
This was an experience I would not have missed for anything. I
would also say it was from the stillness that the power seemed to arise to deal
with the crisis, and that very quickly brought it to a successful resolution. It
was during this crisis I effectively learned that my "strength is to sit still."
Smith, Hannah Whitall, (1832-1911) Author well known for
The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life
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Martin Luther wrote: "O if any congregation were to
pray this way, so that a common, earnest, heartfelt cry of the whole people were
to rise up to God, what immeasurable virtue and help would result from such a
prayer! For indeed, the Christian church has no greater power or work against
everything that may oppose it than such common (united) prayer. What matters is
not the places and buildings where we assemble, but this unconquerable prayer
alone, and our really praying it together and offering it to God."
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I come to you through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ in
praise and worship and adoration. Empty me now of anything that would interfere
with your purpose-everything of the flesh, world or evil one. Thank you for
sending the Holy Spirit to empower and guide me in communicating your love.
Help me to express your love in a way that can bring me into a new awareness of
your presence in my life. Thank you for releasing the specific gifts of service
necessary to accomplish your purposes. Thank you, Jesus, for promising to be
with us when we gather in your name. Your desire for our wholeness is even
greater than our own. Be glorified in our lives and our time together. Amen
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Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, forgiveness.
Where there are doubts, faith
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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"S A C R E D S P A C E
Sacred Space is a helpful site that was forwarded
to me recently. Though sometime computers seem to get in the way of time with
God they also can provide the means for prayer and practicing the presence of
God. Lord knows that as we welcome our Father in heaven we appreciate our life
so much more as well as our life together at Christus Victor. The sacred space
heading at the beginning of this material is a link so that as you click on it
you will go to Ireland and join the Jesuits there in prayer for the day.
There is a process of prayer and Bible reading/meditation for each day. You
will see the following message and be able to go to the link, PRAYER FOR TODAY.
"We invite you to make a 'Sacred Space' in your day, and spend ten
minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer, with the help of
on-screen guidance and scripture chosen specially every day."
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To keep a tender heart and open ears, we can follow the missionary’s advice,
represented in this poetic prayer by the Methodist minister John
Wesley:
Open, Lord, my inward ear;
And bid my heart rejoice!
Bid my quiet spirit hear
Thy comfortable voice.
Never in the whirlwind
found,
Or where the earthquakes rock the
place;
Still and silent is
the whisper of Thy
grace.
From the world of sin, and
noise,
And hurry, I withdraw;
For the small and inward voice
I wait with humble awe.
Silent am I now, and still,
Dare not in Thy presence move;
To my waiting soul reveal
The secret of Thy love.
Lord, my time is in thine hand,
My soul to Thee convert,
Thou canst make me understand,
Though I am slow of heart;
Thine, in whom I live and move,
Thine the work, the praise is Thine,
Thou art wisdom, power, and love,
And all Thou art is mine.
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