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Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert
and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.
Ephesians 6:18
Greetings Lake Deaton Friends and Family,
This week we are starting a sermon series on prayer!
We will specifically focus on The Lord’s Prayer, but will also be highlighting other prayer opportunities and styles of prayer. I hope each of you will approach this time with great enthusiasm as prayer truly is the spark plug for vibrant Holy Spirit filled faith.
A couple of the prayer opportunities offered will be “Finger Labyrinths,” that you can check out and use for a form of directed prayer and a prayer station where you will be able to write out prayers and insert them into the Cross (much more on both these later). My hope is that as we go through the next month you will utilize these and other opportunities to pray in a new way and that these opportunities will open the doors for your own prayers to expand.
Throughout the New Testament the Apostle Paul continually encouraged the church to pray. It is the backbone of the church because the battles we fight are not earthly battles, but spiritual. The greatest spiritual weapon we have is the ability to pray. The power is that anyone/everyone can pray. There is no specific model the has to be used––only a desire to communicate with God.
I look forward to seeing you this weekend as we join together to go deeper in understanding and living out the most wonderful of prayers, The Lord’s Prayer!
Blessings,
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