A Call to Prayer for LCPC VBS 2017 – Week 4

It's all about the children, God's children

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This week we focus our prayers at a critical juncture in the lives of the children. We first asked God to give the children understanding of Him as a shepherd and followed that up by asking God for the kids to trust in His timing in their lives. Last week we focused our prayers so that the children know that Jesus is all powerful. This week we tune our prayers to the finer focus that will lead to discipleship allowing us to fulfill the command to make disciples. We pray this week that the children will trust Jesus as their Savior and begin to understand the sacrifice He made for us.

It is a big step coming to this understanding and in it we have to perceive our personal need for salvation and our separation from God without it. Please pray for our children to gain that understanding and for our teachers and volunteers to have the Holy Spirit present in our lessons and interactions throughout the week.

The Thursday scripture and point for VBS week is that God gives us love. We see this in I Corinthians 13:13:

“¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of theses is love.”

Our story for Thursday to show God’s love is the death and resurrection of Jesus. Luke, chapters 22 through 24 are used for reference.

As they should be, these are the most sobering moments in history. During this week's Men’s Group reading of John MacArthur’s ‘One Perfect Life’ we found ourselves reading section 193 – The Final Three Hours on the Cross. MacArthur boiled down the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and concentrated them into three short paragraphs. The weight and import of them was almost too much for me to bear

Jesus was utterly forsaken by the Father and was alone on the cross. To know the depth of his love for me at that moment is unfathomable. He willingly took that place. At any point in time Jesus could have taken up his divinity and come down from the cross. But He did not and completed the greatest example of sacrificing his life for his friends.

Greater love has no man than he sacrifice his life for his friends. (John 13:13)

Please pray. Pray for this message to be so written on our hearts that it is the first and foremost thing people see in us and know us by.

In His grip

jerry

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