Lent Week 4 - Power of His Presence P2

Small Serving

Watch the video below and use the daily prayer this week

Daily Prayer

Almighty God, by the power of your Holy Spirit open our eyes, ears, hearts and very lives to your presence so that today we may worship and serve you in faithfulness, be blessing and healing reminders of your love to all whose lives we touch. We offer our prayers in the name of Christ. Amen.

Reminder of the Prayer Gathering Every Wednesday at 7pm

Medium Serving

Read Psalm 18

How does this Psalm strike you?

How do you feel this Psalm fits with the story of Elijah from the reflection video?

How do you experience God?

Large Serving

"We often hear the criciticism that the Church is afflicted with piety, but the real trouble is that its piety is not deep enough! Since the materials are available, all that is needed is the recognition of where they are, and the will to employ them. An important contribution would be the liberation of the term 'piety' from its present damaging connotations, reinstating it as a term of respect. We, indeed, still have a little piety; we say a few hasty prayers; we sing meaningfully a few hymns; we read snatches from the bible. But all of this is far removed from the massive does that we sorely need if we are to be the men and women who can perform a healing service in our generation. The seat of our disease, says Helmut Thielicke, 'is not in the branches of our nerves at all but rather in our roots which are stunted and starved.' The eloquent German points out that Martin Luther prayed four hours each day, 'not despite his busy life but because only so could he accomplish his gigantic labors.' Luther worked so hard that a little desultory praying would not suffice. 'To work without praying and without listening' continues Theilicke, ' means only to grow and spread oneself upward, without striking roots and without an equivalent in the earth.' Trees can grow well in rocky soil, as I can attest by looking out the window of my mountain writing cabin, but they do this only by finding the crevices in the rocks where the roots are able to penetrate deeply."

Elton Trueblood, The New Man For Our Times

How will you respond this week?

What is one step you can take to bring more depth to your life in Jesus?

What is one small thing in your life that God has spoken to you through?

Pick one person to pray for this week that God lays on your heart and send them an encouragement.