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Prayer Focus 27th March

This week the church has been transformed into an Easter-themed prayer space, to help us engage with the events of Holy Week  You can see a walk through of the space here
One of the prayer stations picks up on our memory verse from last Sunday’s service: 

Matthew 22:37-39
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. 
And the second is like it: “Love your neighbour as yourself.”

Identifying who our neighbour is can be hard. Sometimes our neighbours are people we get on with naturally. Sometimes they can be difficult - hard to like, let alone love.

As we pray today, I encourage you to take some time to reflect upon those commands of Jesus.
What does it look like to love God so completely? 
Who are your neighbours, and how do you show the love of God to them? 

Bring your thoughts to God in prayer. 

I invite you to finish your time of prayer by praying these words, written by Lynn Green, General Secretary of Baptists Together:

Loving Lord, we pray today for our neighbours and those who live in our communities. 
We pray a blessing over each person and every household and we ask that each one will be filled with your peace and experience fullness of life. 
Where there is goodness and abundance, we pray for a spirit of gratitude and joy; where there is pain and challenge, we pray that there would be an awareness of your presence with them in and through all things.
We pray for ourselves that we may be neighbours who are beacons of hope, embodying and sharing your light, life and love through the faithful daily witness of our discipleship. 
Please Lord, would you would stir up in us a deeper desire to bless and serve and pray for our neighbours and fill us with your Holy Spirit so that we may see with your eyes and respond with your love and grace. 
We long for you to be lifted up and glorified in our lives and our communities today
. Amen.
 

 

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