Today’s PrayerLink is dedicated to Chuck Russell-Coons. His loving gentle spirit continues in us. May God grant him peace and rest.
May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus, so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Parent of our Saviour Jesus Christ. (Romans 15:5-6, NRSVA)
Thank God for the ministries of:
Mountain Spirit MCC, Asheville, North Carolina, USA (Church Anniversary December 2, 2003)
and
Rev. Sharon Henry ministering with Reflection MCC, Folsom, Califorinia, USA
Through the Bible in a year: Nehemiah 5-9 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah%205-9&version=NRSVA
Today’s PrayerLink is dedicated to Chuck Russell-Coons. His loving gentle spirit continues in us. May God grant him peace and rest.
“Then the Monarch said to the servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. (Matthew 22:8-10, NIV)
Thank God for the ministries of:
Eternal Joy MCC, Dayton, Ohio, USA (Church Anniversary December 2, 1980)
and
Ken Martin ministering with Sanctuary in the Woods, Austin, Texas, USA
Through the Bible in a year: Deuteronomy 23-25 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2023-25&version=NRSVA
A Daily Affirmation (from POZ magazine, February/March 2001)
I am grateful today to be alive. Let me live each moment of this day attentively, consciously and intentionally, with an open mind and an open heart. This day let my hopes for healing of mind, body and spirit become visible in my life.
I am grateful for my body, for each breath I draw, for the blood in my veins, for the cells of which I am composed. May I treasure this body with every act of eating, breathing, sleeping, feeling, lovemaking, exercising, and with every pill I ingest.
I am grateful for the people I know and have known, friends and lovers living and dead, those I love and see, and those I love and no longer see; for love that is stronger than death and for love that never ends.
Each day help me to connect with the diversity of human creation, young and old, positive and negative, every race, gender and orientation. Keep me passionate and engaged in creating a world of justice, free from prejudice and poverty, where everyone is valued, loved and free.
May my awareness of mortality inspire me to live abundantly, here and now. May I live in expectation of a cure for HIV in my lifetime.
Let my life be a prayer, my dreams a reality. -J.M.
World aids Day
Thank God for the ministries of:
The more than 21.8 million lives cut short by aids. The more than 36.1 million people who are living with aids/hiv. The caregivers, family, and frieds of people with aids/hiv. The Doctors and nurses caring for people with aids/hiv. The researchers looking for a cure. For all us as we find hope on this day.
Through the Bible in a year: Acts 21-22 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2021-22&version=NRSVA
But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. (Malachi 4:2, NRSVA)
Thank God for the ministries of:
MCC of Our Redeemer, Augusta, Georgia, USA (Church Anniversary November 29, 1987)
and
Rev Margarita Rodriguez ministering with Sunshine Cathedral MCC, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Through the Bible in a year: Malachi https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Malachi%201-4&version=NRSVA
Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for the Planet Earth
And the ransomed of the Eternal shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (Isaiah 35:10, NRSVA)
Thank God for the ministries of:
ICM Maringà, Maringa, Brazil
and
Rev. Tony Viglione ministering with Church of Our Savior MCC, Boynton Beach, Florida, USA
Through the Bible in a year: Nehemiah 1-4 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah%201-4&version=NRSVA
Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for Energy
You, then, why do you judge your siblings? Or why do you look down on another? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: ” ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’ “ So then, each of us will give an account of ourself to God. (Romans 14:10-12, CEB)
Thank God for the ministries of:
Reflection MCC, Folsom, California, USA
and
James Hartman ministering with MCC of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Through the Bible in a year: Deuteronomy 20-22 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2020-22&version=NRSVA
Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for the Holy Spirit, God ever present
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which God bought with Jesus’ own blood. (Acts 20:28, NIV)
Reign of Christ Sunday, Last Sunday of Pentecost
Thank God for the ministries of:
Diaconia Cristiana en la Diversidad ICM, Departamento de Montevideo, Uruguay
and
Rev. Mark Harris ministering with Vision of Hope MCC, Mountville, Pennsylvania, USA
Through the Bible in a year: Acts 19-20 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2019-20&version=NRSVA
