Today there is a group of people that you can pray for, the Leaders, Volunteers and Staff of SOS Events Ministry.
They are a special group, who give their time and talents for the Lord. Many times they sacrifice to win others to a saving knowledge of Jesus.
Pray for strength, wisdom, good health for each one.
Pray for new volunteers and new events that more people can hear the Gospel and be saved.
Many churches have put away the old hymns. How sad!
Bring in some of the more modern music (as long as they line up with scripture) but don’t throw away the great hymns of the past.
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 wilt be.
Refrain:
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!
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.
Refrain
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
God’s Word has so many practical things to say about how we should live.
Communication is the key to a good relationship. This verse tells us how to communicate well with others.
Listen! Listen! 80% of the time listen. Without interruption or comment. This is hard for some of us. Be conscious of how much you speak.
Speak only 20% of the time. Weigh your words carefully. Be positive and encouraging.
Slow to get angry. The old saying, “count to 10”. Forgiveness is the key. Try to see what the other person might be going through. Everyone has a bad day now and then.
If someone irritates you remember the 80, 20 advice. Quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to wrath.
Have you ever been in a situation where you can’t even pray?
Maybe it is a loved one who is seriously ill.
You have received bad news and are too overwhelmed to know how to pray.
Sometimes we just don’t know what to pray for and our prayers seem to go no further than the ceiling of the room.
Whatever the cause of our lack of prayer, we have an advocate. The Holy Spirit. He will pray for us as the verse in Romans promises.
Be thankful for this precious promise and know that even when you can’t pray, you are being prayed for by Holy Spirit.
Sometimes, we have to send out an SOS to the Lord in prayer. He is faithful to answer. An acronym for how to get prayers answered follows:
Sincere: it is important that we are sincere when we pray. God knows our heart and He knows if we really desire what we are asking for.
Obedience: we must be sure we are obedient to God’s word. There must not be any known sin in our lives.
Specific: we must be specific and tell God exactly what we need.
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest
God’s promise to His children. We can have victory in our lives over the problems we face.
Victory over sin, addiction, sickness and even death. Do our problems disappear? No, not always. But Jesus promised to walk with us through any trial that we face.
He won the victory over death when He rose from the dead. If you are facing a great battle in your life, remember, you have the victory through Jesus.
There are many people who have a stony heart. People who do not want to hear the Gospel or accept Jesus as their Savior.
The good news is that those hearts can be changed. God through the Holy Spirit can break up that stone in the heart. He can change a person and make them a new creation.
If you need to have a new heart, ask Jesus to come in and He will send the Spirit into your life.
Do you find it hard to love some people? Maybe it is a fellow worker, a disagreeable neighbor, someone in your family, a person of another race or religion.
It is a natural reaction to not love someone who has hurt you, but that is the problem. It is a “natural” reaction. The Bible tells us in Ephesians as Christians to put off the old man which is corrupt and put on the new man, which is holy.
How then do we overcome the lack of love in our lives? Start to pray for that person if it is an individual. Ask God to change your heart if it is a group of people.
We cannot be an obedient Christian or have God’s blessings if we have hate in our heart.
Center for Evangelists 
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