Our Congregational Transition Team continues working diligently through applications. Thank you for holding them up in prayer as they continue to serve our church family in this vital way.
Please continue praying for others involved in this process as well:
- For Steve Welch and Stu Quackenbush as they continue serving as interim lead pastors during this season.
- For the board as they provide vision and support to the ministry.
- For Don Denyes as he continues rehabilitation.
- For God to prepare and direct the right men to apply.
Why Pray?
It may feel discouraging sometimes to pray for a long time and not receive an answer. When we look to Scripture, we see examples of people who prayed many years before they received what they were hoping for. We’re reminded that God doesn’t work on our timeline, and that His ways are always perfect.
If God works in His time, why should we keep asking? First, we pray because it shapes our hearts and our faith. When we pray, we align our hearts and minds with God’s work and God’s priorities. Second, we pray out of obedience, since that’s what He called us to do. Sometimes it’s a sacrifice, but it’s one that pleases God. But third, we also pray because God listens. And He doesn’t just listen, He acts. Why? If God is king of everything and knows everything already and is wiser and better than us, why should it make a difference what we ask Him to do? The reason is simple: God is a good Father who loves to include His children in the good work He’s doing. God doesn’t need our prayers, but it’s a way He includes us. When we ask Him, we work with Him. He gives us a hand in making things happen. What a privilege!
So know that as you continue to pray, sometimes for the same things each day, that our heavenly Father is pleased, He listens, and He is working.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” Matthew 7:7–11
Together in Christ,
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