MONDAY—EVANGELISTIC PRAYER

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 31-33 + Hebrews 5
Monday, November 2, 2009

2 Timothy 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Gracious God My Savior:
Oh that you would call __________ and __________ to salvation in your Son! Since salvation starts with your calling it forbids all trust in my own work, and conducts me to Christ alone for salvation. Yet afterwards, this same calling purges me from dead works to serve the true and living God.
2 Corinthians 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Since you are holy, and you have called me, make me more holy like yourself. I may fall into sin, but I cannot live in sin if I’m called. Call me away from sin today. This is the panting of my heart.
Philippians 3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Make my calling the highest calling. Make it set my affections on things above. Make it elevate my hopes and expand my dreams, my tastes, and my desires for what I can do for you! Give me an ennobling faith that makes me want to spend my life with you, on you, and for you.
Hebrews 3:1  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
I have received a call from heaven, not from a priest or even a pastor. It is a call to heaven as well as from heaven. I am a tent-dweller here (because that is just what my body is), and look for a city whose builder and maker is God. Such is the calling you give to your people. Use me to deliver that call to others who have not your heart, and glorify Jesus in opening their ears to the call. Amen.

TUESDAY— CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 34-36 + Hebrews 6
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Job 42:10  And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Lord God and Our Father:
What a promise! Our longest sorrows have an ending. There is a bottom to our deepest misery. Winter cannot last forever! Summer always eventually smiles. Night will not hang its darkness evermore. The Son will yet arise with healing in his wings.
Lord, you turned the captivity of Job and you can turn ours as well. You can make our fields of ministry and gospel services blossom with fruitfulness. Outreach and upreach and growth can be ours once again. How?
Intercessory prayer was a sign of Job’s return to greatness. It was like the rainbow in the cloud and the dove that returned the olive branch. When Job’s soul began to expand itself in holy and loving prayer for his erring and wayward friends, your heart showed itself to him. You returned his prosperity and cheered his soul within.
Father, it is good to remember that intercessory prayer for our community is the sweetest prayer you hear. What wonders it has wrought both here and abroad. Just looking in the Bible I see that it stopped plagues. It removed the darkness from Egypt land. It stopped all the ravages of your avenging hand. Intercessory prayer healed diseases in the early church. It even raised the dead as Elijah stretched himself upon a child seven times.
How many souls have been saved because of intercessory prayer? Give us more! If there is nothing that prayer cannot request because there is nothing that God cannot do, then let us become an interceding church. We have a mighty weapon in our hand. Let us use it well, continually, and with true faith. Amen.

WEDNESDAY—REVIVAL PRAYING

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 37-39 + Hebrews 7
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Revelation 1:20  The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

Lord and Guiding Master:
If I use your light for my own glory, then I am not filled with love. By your mercy Lord, forbid that I should fall under such a condemnation. If I lose my first love, I will lose my peace, then my joy, then my usefulness. Persuade me by your promise:
Revelation 2:7  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
The diminishing of my love is the first sign I need revival. Help me grow through grace to overcome the common tendency to decline in love over time. Let familiarity not breed contempt, but instead confirm me in my consecration.
Revelation from your word will fuel revival, because if I eat the fruit from a better tree then I will have a better life. Give me a life proved secure by love, and a love proven sincere by my service. Those are the signs of revival.
I see in these verses that those who lose their first love wander. Those who keep their first love are drawn into closer fellowship with you. Bring me nearer to the center of paradise this week. I want to taste the tree that is in the middle of the garden, the inner ring of knowing and loving Christ. I will know you better as I love you more.
Eve took fruit from the forbidden tree and gave it to Adam. Christ takes fruit from the tree of promise and offers it to us, his bride. Let me eat and live forever, for Jesus’ sake and glory. Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 40-42 + Hebrews 8
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Daniel 9:23  I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

GREAT is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

—Thomas O. Chisholm, 1923

FRIDAY—FOCUS ON CHRIST’S LIFE

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 43-45 + Hebrews 9
Friday, November 6, 2009

John 16:28  I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

Jesus:
Teach me, by looking at you on the cross, to simply do what Jesus did.
You rested in God in all times of danger and pain. If the doctor tells me I have to go under the knife I should say, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Fretting will certainly not aid. Fear will not hurt me. Only doing what Jesus did.
You had brave confidence in the time of death or fear of death. For in that moment of death I will understand more than I will ever learn on earth, and see in an instant more than I could hope to see if I lived for a century. I have no wish, no will, and no word, but to simply hand my heart over to the Keeper, like Jesus did.
You had complete submission in any circumstance. If I get into the hands of God, everything else is at rest. Home and happiness are there. I move out of the nothingness of the creature and into the all-sufficiency of the Creator.
You said, It is finished. I am not finished, but you are. So the only thing I have left to do is to work out in my life what you have already finished. All I have to do is to show it to others out of my life, and my reactions to every reality and any eventuality. And because It is finished, I will return to you. So my life henceforth is in you. My joy is in you. To die is to be in you.
I will not worship afar off. I can come close in childlike confidence. I recognize your greatness even as I speak with you as a child to its Father. The cross has accomplished my access. The door is open and entrance is free. I can be in your presence at any moment by prayer. This is what Jesus did. He prayed at all times so he could see God in every thing. Help me, Holy Spirit, to do what Jesus did today, for I ask this in his precious name. Amen.

SATURDAY—IN THE PSALMS

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 46-48 + Hebrews 10
Saturday, November 7, 2009

Psalm 107:2  Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Mighty Redeemer and King:
My thesis should be thanksgiving and my message should be the motives for it. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks or says; I have overwhelming reasons for declaring your goodness. I have been specifically redeemed, so I ought to deliver special praises for salvation.
Snatched from the fire by superior power, I have good reason to adore you, my Lord and Liberator. He hath redeemed—because no one else could, and he needed no help to do it. In heaven there is no sweeter hymn than,
Revelation 5:9  Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood…
My Redeemer is so glorious. The ransom price was so immense. The salvation was so complete. I am under multiple obligations to give you thanks and encourage others to do the same. Not to just feel it, but to say it.
Psalm 107:6  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
How well I know how loneliness intensifies misery. The solitude of a desert has depressing influence. When my soul is distressed I find nothing to rest on. Sometimes, like the Israelites, I do not pray until I am in danger. But it is merciful that I can pray then even if I have not prayed previously.
Prayers that are forced out of me are no less acceptable than praise. If hunger forces me to my knees, it is better than having a feast. If thirst drives me to you, it is better than getting a drink. If weakness brings me to tears, it is better than having strength, for deliverance follows prayer. Deliver me without delay!

OK Who is praying for rain? Stop it!! We have had enough!

Well the got the loading dock concrete driveway all paved yesterday before the rain and some of the dirt work on the South side but with the rain it does not look good for the asphalt paving for this next week as planned. We have some good progress in red iron on the North half. Firebaugh is now on site and has started putting up the structural studs on the North/West corner of the building. Western Fireproofing was here yesterday and putting the decking on the roof to get ready to do that. The forms are off the tower and concrete beam by the front door area and the dirt work had started to get the floor and steel beams placed in that area.

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First Worship Service

• Your Grace is Enough by Matt Maher
  • Hear it on Matt Maher’s album “Empty and Beautiful”
• Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman and Beth Redman
  • Hear it on Anthony Evans’s album “The Bridge”
• I Have a Hope by Tommy Walker
  • Hear it on Tommy Walker’s album “I Have a Hope”
• Full Attention by Jeremy Riddle
  • Hear it on Jeremy Riddle’s album “Full Attention”
• Take My Life by Francis Ridley Havergal, Henri Abraham Cesar Malan, Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin
  • Hear it on Passion’s album “Passion: Better is One Day”
• Hands of the Carpenter by Scott Krippayne, Scott Siler, and Tony Wood
  • Hear it on Dámaris’s album “The Call”

Second Worship Service

• Come Thou Fount by David Crowder
  • Hear it on Passion’s album “Our Love Is Loud – Live from the Passion Experience Tour”
• All Day by Marty Sampson
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One”
• Came to My Rescue by Joel Davies, Marty Sampson, Dylan Thomas
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One”
• Open Your Eyes by Jon Egan
  • Hear it on the Desperation Band’s album “Everyone Overcome”
• No One Like You by David Crowder, Jack Parker, Mike Dodson, Jason Solley, Mike Hogan, and Jeremy Bush
  • Hear it on the David Crowder Band’s album “Illuminate

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First Worship Service

• All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises by Paul Baloche
  • Hear it on Travis Cottrell’s album “Alive Forever”
• Your Great Name We Praise by Bob Kauflin and Walter Chalmers Smith
  • Hear it on Sovereign Grace Music’s album “Upward: The Bob Kauflin Hymns Project
• I Have a Hope by Tommy Walker
  • Hear it on Tommy Walker’s album “I Have a Hope”
• Refiner’s Fire by Brian Doerksen
  • Hear it on “WOW: Worship Yellow”
• The Heart of Worship by Matt Redman
  • Hear it on Matt Redman’s album “Blessed Be Your Name: The Songs of Matt Redman, Vol. 1″

Second Worship Service

• You Deserve by Matt Crocker and James Dunlop
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “This is Our God”
• King of All Days by Dylan Thomas
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “A_CROSS // The_EARTH: Tear Down the Walls
• Where We Belong by Joel Davies and Reuben Morgan
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “This is Our God”
• We Win by David Crowder, Mike Dodson, and Jack Parker
  • Hear it on the David Crowder Band’s album “A Collision”

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MONDAY—EVANGELISTIC PRAYER

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 13-15 + Titus 3
Monday, October 26, 2009

2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Son of God and Savior:
First, I know that grief over guilt is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance does not come to me naturally. Like a pearl in an oyster, repentance will never show up in me—or in any other sinner—until your Spirit sparks it. Give __________ and __________ a particle of real conviction for their sin so your grace can save them.
Second, the reference point for true repentance is you. To truly repent of sin I have to have one eye on the cross. Help __________ and __________ to fix both eyes on Christ and see their transgressions in the light of his dying love.
Third, true sorrow for sin is always practical. No one can say they hate sin and still live in it. Repentance will make __________ and __________ see sin’s evil experientially, like a child dreads a hot burner. Make us as afraid of sin as the person who just got mugged is wary of being robbed again. Help me to shun sin, not just in big matters, but in little ways as well.
Fourth, mourning for sin will make me jealously guard my mouth! I will watch my tongue and examine my actions, until at night I can close my confessions with the anxious prayer that God would hold me up so that I might not sin against him. Truly, lead us not into temptation, but deliver is from evil.
Last, sincere repentance is a continual process. I will have things to repent of till my dying day. Every other sorrow may stop in time, but this sorrow grows with my growth in grace. It is a bitter sweet, and I thank you God, that I can enjoy it. Forgive me of my sins even as you save __________ and __________ out of theirs. Do it because Jesus purchased this on the cross for them. Amen.

TUESDAY— CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 16-18 + Philemon
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

O Holy Father:
Some forms of spiritual life are not absolutely essential, but prayer is the essence of our spirituality. How will we accomplish your mission if we do not pray? Prayer draws down your ear when you seem to stand far away. Prayer breaks down the walls of seeming coincidence and turns our entire life’s journey into a play directed by Providence.
Daniel 6:3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
An excellent spirit, abundant in prayer. Can we be the same? As Daniel remembered his people who were in exile, we are called to remember those who are in bonds. How many there are in prison that need to be prayed for. It grieved Daniel that his city was laid waste. Does it grieve us that the destroyer, drug dealer and alcohol abuser stalks our streets? Oh that we might have listened at Daniel’s keyhole and heard his intercessions!
Daniel mingled thanksgiving with all his prayers. We have such poor and pitiful devotion when we are always receiving, but never reflecting a grateful attitude. Prayers in which there is no thanksgiving are surely selfish things.
Prayer and praise are the process by which we accomplish your plan. Prayer drinks in deep breaths of grace and love, and praise breathes it out again. When sincere desires and longing are mingled with adoration it forms a sweet incense of many spices. Daniel was exalted to worldly prosperity, but he knew that he could stand in it only by prayer. Make us dare to be a Daniel! Amen.

WEDNESDAY—REVIVAL PRAYING

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 19-21 + Hebrews 1
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;

Loving and Glorious Lord:
There are those in other religions who torture themselves, thinking that through discipline and self-mortification they can win your satisfaction. In all parts of the planet there are those who think the misery of their body can be an atonement for their sin. But, It is finished. All the pain of punishment that God can ask, Christ has suffered for me.
John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Lord, I dare not pin my filthy rags to the fine linen of Christ’s righteousness. But instead, I trust through my faith in the cross, that his righteousness is applied to me. My account now contains his obedience in my place. My sin was put on him and taken away, never to be remembered again.
I cannot (and no one can) improve on what Christ finished. The cross made the work of salvation complete. From henceforth, you see my sins to remove them, but not to lay them to my charge. Even my righteousnesses are like filthy rags to you, but all the filthy rags are mine no longer. I have Christ’s righteousness through renouncing my righteousness, to trust in his blood alone, shed on the cross.
Make me clean within. There is a bath of water whose faucet flows from the wounded side of Jesus. My guiltiness is washed away as well as my guilt, and for this I praise you in prayer. Eternal Spirit, come down and fill my soul, though I hate myself today. In Christ I am a new creature because of his cross. I claim that and all it means, because it glorifies Christ for me to do so. Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 22-24 + Hebrews 2
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Daniel 9:23 I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

LIFT every voice and sing, till earth and Heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet,
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered;
Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou Who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou Who hast by Thy might, led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.

—James Weldon Johnson, 1899

FRIDAY—FOCUS ON CHRIST’S CROSS

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 25-27 + Hebrews 3
Friday, October 30, 2009

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Holy Master:
It was the brilliance of divine intelligence to string all the Old Testament ceremonies and sacrifices on one thread of thought, look at all the ancient prophecies as one unified revelation, and all the promises as heralding one supernatural person. Then you could say of the whole thing, “It is finished  in Me.”
Soaring above the Alps of agony, you had the presence of mind to remember what was being accomplished for my salvation. Some people ask me, How could Christ, in only three hours, bear suffering that is equal to the eternal torments of hell for every man, woman, and child that is ever going to be saved? But O Lord, no one is capable of measuring what the Son of God can do in even one moment, much less what he might do in his life, and might suffer in his death.
In the space of three hours you endured not only the agony contained in centuries, but also an equivalent for what is experienced in everlasting punishment. When Deity is arrayed in manhood, then that manhood becomes omnipotent to suffer.
Dear Lord, I do not even try to measure your sufferings by the finite line of my own limited reason. Some cult groups do, and that is why they deny your virgin birth, your miraculous life, and your substitutionary atonement. And whatever else nice they say about you, they still deny who you really are—my God. I know and believe that what you endured on the cross was accepted by God as equivalent payment for all my sins, and for all the sins of anyone who will believe on you. Help me reach others with this message! Amen.

SATURDAY—IN THE PSALMS

Chronological Reading: Jeremiah 28-30 + Hebrews 4
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Psalm 106:25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

Righteous Lord and Master:
It is a short and mostly natural step to go from unbelief to complaining. Whining and distrust are cousins, and it is time I confessed that complaining is a great sin—not just a weakness—because it contains pride, rebellion, mistrust, and a whole host of contention.
Complaining is a “home sin” that is usually practiced by complainers in their tents. And that’s a shame, because then it affects the mood and attitude of the whole family, and is just as bad as evil in the streets. So I see Lord, why it brings you so much grief.
Psalm 106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
In this Psalm, new sins bring new diseases, so I know that when your people invent sins then you are not slow to invent chastisements. Phinehas stood up and intervened, and I am glad Lord, that you still have your champions. Let me be one of those who, in the worst of times, steps forward into the gap. Make my faith perform heroics.
Psalm 106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
May my prayer hold back your hand from judgment. May my prayer give you a reason to show grace when chastening seems to be due. Pity us, for you never shut out our petitions. Since you have a Father’s heart, may the sight of my sorrows touch your soul. Wean me from my idols so that I desire only to glorify your name. Do this for Jesus’ sake and glory. Amen.

This has been a real rough work week. Three funerals in one week and the rain caused some of the work to slow down. We cancelled doing the loading dock this week as it would be almost impossible to get caskets into the auditorium without leaving the office door in a useable condition.

Here is a list of forecast dates to give you some idea of what’s coming up. This is an outline; all dates subject to change!

10/26-30: Concrete loading dock driveway

10/28-30: Base asphalt in driveways only

10/26-11/18: Exterior stud walls

11/7: New driveways open for use; new shuttle path and drop off point

11/2-12/2: Exterior sheathing

11/12-12-11: Brick work

mid-November: Escalators delivered and placed inside the building

11/23-12/15: Roofing

12/1-1/6: Window panels

1/6/2010: Building substantially enclosed and watertight

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