“YOU DO NOT HAVE BECAUSE YOU DO NOT ASK”

On Sunday night, January, 11th we’ll be starting the new year with
a week of prayer and fasting. The schedule will be as follows:

Sunday………6pm—Forgiveness and a Pure heart
Monday………7pm—Unity, Guidance & Holy Spirit Empowerment
Tuesday……7pm—Healing & Deliverance
Wednesday…7pm—Salvation for Friends & Relatives (Youth Meeting Separately)
Thursday……7pm—Situations that Seem Impossible
Friday…………7pm—Marriages &Families
Saturday………24hr. prayer begins at 6am—Leaders & Government Officials
*Sunday—Friday we will be meet in the Sanctuary

Jesus taught that “we should always pray and not give up” (Luke 18:1) for He knew that there would be times when either we would become discouraged in prayer or simply succumb to a life of prayerlessness. In this eighteenth chapter that begins with a parable on prayer, Jesus concludes with this question: “When the Son of Man comes (Jesus’ second coming) will He find faith on the earth?” (vs. 8b)

After reading this parable—one that has a widow coming back time and again to an unjust judge until he eventually grants her plea for justice—we see that Jesus
clearly links “faith on earth” with persistence in prayer. You cannot
say that you truly have faith if you fail to consistently and persistently
look to God for justice, strength,help, wisdom, healing, and every other facet of human need. If prayer is simply a last ditch effort you “try” when all else fails, then prayer will be quite low on your list of priorities. And if a day or
two passes without having set apart a time of meaningful communication with God, it won’t be anything that causes you great concern. Consequently, Satan will have cut you off from one of the greatest resources you have for living out your Christian faith and advancing God’s kingdom on earth.

Maybe you have an anemic prayer life for you assume that you have little influence with God. “Who am I,” you might reason, “that I should presume that God would
heed my prayers?” This is the very reason why Jesus begins the Lord’s Prayer with “Our Father”. All who have made Christ their Savior have become God’s children
in the truest sense of the word. They are full-fledged sons and daughters of their heavenly Father with all the rights and privileges that come with that relationship.
And so the Apostle John writes: “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John
3:1)

As the New Year approaches, I would encourage you to make every effort to join with your family at Calvary as we jointly come before our heavenly Father’s throne—knowing that because we can touch His heart, we will indeed move His hand!

In His Love,
John