Pray, Praise and Worship: Presbyterians Protecting Life

Monday, May 11, 2020

Presbyterians Protecting Life - #ThankGod4healers&helpers

Life Support Prayer Calendar

PPL's Executive Director, Deborah Hollifield wrote:

"All lives matter" has become a trite slogan, but in God's economy, it is clearly true. God is a powerful protector of the weakest, the poorest, the most infirm and the helpless. (Luke 7:22b)

Jesus sees one of the infirm and helpless in this week's scripture passage (below), and he changes his life forever!

Read Hollifield's Call to Prayer: Jesus Doesn't Triage

John 5:1-9 (ESV)

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids--blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

May 10-16, 2020

1. Thank God for the tireless efforts of doctors, nurses, and first responders who work to save lives during the Covid-19 pandemic. Pray that God will give each one wisdom and strength, hope and faith for each day's service.

2. Pray that God will bring an end to this pandemic in a way that all will know that He has done it. Pray for the protection of the elderly and those with compromised immune systems that they may be safe and well and live for all the days that God intends for them.

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