Following God
Sowing our
Prayer… Reaping the Spirit
This
week, we will do something a little different.
Every day, pray aloud all of Psalm 51. Make David’s words your own and pray them to God. Each day, there is be a different verse on
which to focus and meditate after you have prayed. Then, sometime in your day, find a way to let
that verse take hold of you and live through you.
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Monday
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V.
1-2
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Tuesday
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V.
6-7
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Wednesday
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V. 7-8
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Thursday
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V.
10-12
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Friday
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V. 13
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Saturday
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V.
15
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Every year, I (Joel) get
excited when the first snow of the season falls. The white covering over all the dormant trees
and the ground makes a dreary landscape beautiful. Besides the beauty, a magnificent image can
come from the first snow of the season.
Snow symbolizes a
re-birth. There is a season every year
where snow covers the ground like a blanket and allows the land to rest, but
when it melts away, there is new life, there is re-birth. In the same way, we Christians have
experience this in our lives. We have
been covered and been made white as snow.
But this isn’t the end. When the
cover goes away, we are not to look like autumn anymore, but like spring. Life and growth happen spiritually.
As a church, we also have
experience a time of beautiful snow cover, but as the real snow comes here in
Indiana, the time of growth, re-birth, and life is coming for us as a
church. Our 6 months of waiting is over,
it is time for growth. It is time to bud
like spring. We are not to look like we
did before; this is a time of new life.
Pray for the Spirit to enliven
Oak Chapel even more than we are, and allow us to blossom as the springtime.
