Silas
Beloved of All
Your heart for prayer for those who shepherd and preach and for your family is a beautiful burden, and God hears when His people seek Him.
It is right to ask that those who teach would first seek the Lord themselves, in daily prayer and devotion, in careful study of the Word, and in faithful intercession for the people entrusted to them. The strength of a church is not in methods or numbers but in whether its leaders are grounded in Scripture and live what they teach. Sound teaching comes from a life founded on the fact of God's Word, not only on emotional experience. When the Word is faithfully taught and lived, faith is established and the church is built up.
We join you in praying that your family would be drawn by the Father, for no one comes to Jesus unless the Father draws him. Faith comes by hearing the message of Christ, and it is the Father who reveals His Son, not flesh and blood. We pray that as your loved ones hear the Word, they would receive it with humility and faith, with hearts open to the Holy Spirit who convicts of sin, teaches all things, and opens minds to understand the Scriptures. True worship is in spirit and truth, and it is the Holy Spirit who anoints and guides into that truth.
We thank God with you for the message of the crucified Christ who gave Himself for our sins. Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. All have sinned and fall short of God's glory, and there is no other way to be made right with Him. Works cannot earn salvation and cannot be a substitute for faith, but genuine faith that saves will show itself in a changed life. As faith is put in Christ, it bears fruit in deeds and in the work of the Spirit. That is the evidence that faith is living and real.
We pray with you that God, who is near to all who call on Him and is our ever present help, would grant to your family a deep hunger for His Word as newborns long for milk, a spirit of revelation to know Christ more clearly, and vision that comes from His Spirit. We ask that He would protect them from the evil one, who thrives where there is lack of knowledge of God, and that He would keep them in fellowship with His people, not forsaking gathering together but continuing in the teaching of the Word, in prayer, and in remembering the Lord's death until He comes. We pray for faith to ask and to receive according to His will, trusting that when we ask according to His will He hears us.
God desires that none should perish but that all would come to repentance and to the knowledge of the truth, and Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. We can pray with confidence because God delights to save households and to open the door of faith to all who call on Him. Keep praying and keep trusting Him to work. He who began a good work is faithful to complete it, and He will establish those who belong to Him in the faith as they continue in His Word.
It is right to ask that those who teach would first seek the Lord themselves, in daily prayer and devotion, in careful study of the Word, and in faithful intercession for the people entrusted to them. The strength of a church is not in methods or numbers but in whether its leaders are grounded in Scripture and live what they teach. Sound teaching comes from a life founded on the fact of God's Word, not only on emotional experience. When the Word is faithfully taught and lived, faith is established and the church is built up.
We join you in praying that your family would be drawn by the Father, for no one comes to Jesus unless the Father draws him. Faith comes by hearing the message of Christ, and it is the Father who reveals His Son, not flesh and blood. We pray that as your loved ones hear the Word, they would receive it with humility and faith, with hearts open to the Holy Spirit who convicts of sin, teaches all things, and opens minds to understand the Scriptures. True worship is in spirit and truth, and it is the Holy Spirit who anoints and guides into that truth.
We thank God with you for the message of the crucified Christ who gave Himself for our sins. Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. All have sinned and fall short of God's glory, and there is no other way to be made right with Him. Works cannot earn salvation and cannot be a substitute for faith, but genuine faith that saves will show itself in a changed life. As faith is put in Christ, it bears fruit in deeds and in the work of the Spirit. That is the evidence that faith is living and real.
We pray with you that God, who is near to all who call on Him and is our ever present help, would grant to your family a deep hunger for His Word as newborns long for milk, a spirit of revelation to know Christ more clearly, and vision that comes from His Spirit. We ask that He would protect them from the evil one, who thrives where there is lack of knowledge of God, and that He would keep them in fellowship with His people, not forsaking gathering together but continuing in the teaching of the Word, in prayer, and in remembering the Lord's death until He comes. We pray for faith to ask and to receive according to His will, trusting that when we ask according to His will He hears us.
God desires that none should perish but that all would come to repentance and to the knowledge of the truth, and Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. We can pray with confidence because God delights to save households and to open the door of faith to all who call on Him. Keep praying and keep trusting Him to work. He who began a good work is faithful to complete it, and He will establish those who belong to Him in the faith as they continue in His Word.
