Like Genesis 23, this is a chapter where there were no real Key Prayer Points that jumped out at me. It was more narrative and historical in a way that was difficult to personalize. God's Word is still living and still worth abiding in!
Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.
I pray that the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist will let their "being with Jesus" be obvious to all.
Mark 8:34 (NASS) And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
I pray that the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH will deny themselves and take up their cross.
Isaiah 62:4 (NASS) It will no longer be said to you, "Forsaken," Nor to your land will it any longer be said, "Desolate"; But you will be called, "My delight is in her," And your land, "Married"; For the LORD delights in you, And to Him your land will be married.
I pray that the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH will live in a way that You delight in them.
Genesis 26:3 (NASS) "Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
I pray that You will be "with" the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH.
Acts 3:19 (NASS) "Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;
Let the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH experience times of refreshing from the presence of Christ.
Mark 7:6 (NASS) And He said to them, "Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.
Let the hearts of the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH be in tune with You.
Isaiah 61:11 (NASS) For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise To spring up before all the nations.
Let righteousness and praise spring up in the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH.
Isaiah 60:19 (NASS) "No longer will you have the sun for light by day, Nor for brightness will the moon give you light; But you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, And your God for your glory.
Let the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH have You for an everlasting light.
Acts 1:14 (NASS) These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
Let the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH be of one mind and devoted to prayer.
Mark 5:19 (NASS) And He did not let him, but He said to him, "Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you."
Let the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH report the great things God has done.
Isaiah 59:13 (NASS) Transgressing and denying the LORD, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.
Let the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH turn to God and away from transgressing.
This is one of the rare days that I didn't find a key prayer point in Genesis 23. I wanted to be transparent an model the reality of what I find or don't find to pray for.
Revelation 22:9 (NASS) But he said to me, "Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship God."
Let the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH heed Your words and worship You.
Mark 4:20 (NASS) "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."
Let the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH hear the Word and bear fruit.
Isaiah 58:14 (NASS) Then you will take delight in the LORD, And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
Let the PEOPLE of Marion Baptist CHURCH delight in You.