Prayerfully Re-Center Around God
1 Thessalonians 3:10
Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.
~ Apostle Paul
Pondering Point
Hmmm. The Apostle Paul was praying that he and his ministry companions could provide something that these Christians lacked spiritually. That could come off as insulting toward them and arrogant on Paul’s part! Or it could come across as someone deeply committed to cultivating the faith of those they’re discipling.
Let’s prayerfully ponder with God who we are (or could be) discipling in the faith.
Review the Week
For whom do you pray over “night and day” in order to have God use you to cultivate their faith or disciple them? Are you engaged in any disciple-growing relationships?
Repent (if necessary)
... of neglecting your role as a discipler or “fisher of men” as Jesus called the disciples in Matthew 4:19.
Matthew 4:19
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
Return (as necessary)
Come to Jesus with this prayer:
Lord Jesus, I come to follow you as Lord and Savior. Make me into a ‘fisher of men’ as you did with Your first disciples: Peter and Andrew, James and John. Help me by grow in faith to serve you.
Amen.
My Gratitude Journal
The Three Girls Singing in Church Together
Gratitude Journal?
Click to learn
about this new
feature.
This is a personal joy story in the context of our church family.
In what seems like decades ago, Lynne Taylor prepared Lexi, Jade and Cloe (my daughters) to sing in church.
Lexi had already sung Teach Me to Love (with Debbie Cecchetti) at the Live Hope Service, but this was all three, each with their own singing parts, using a microphone to catch their soft singing style. I have pictures of this somewhere: Each one in a little, navy blue "Live Hope" shirt. I don’t really need the pictures though; it is positively seared into my memory. It is a proud daddy moment that the Hope family helped generate. I don’t know how great a joy it was to them – they never did it again (though you can catch them singing and dancing if there’s Christian or country music playing).