Pray, Praise and Worship: Prayers, gifts + God's power = abundant provision! #Pray4ppl

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Prayers, gifts + God's power = abundant provision! #Pray4ppl

Life Support Prayer Calendar

Dear Prayer Team Member,

Please continue to pray with me this week for God's people to be touched by God's compassion to feed the hungry in our communities. Our scripture this week reminds us that Jesus takes the smallest gift that we give to him and by His power multiplies it to meet the needs with abundance to spare. Would you also pray especially for Deborah, our Executive Director and for me, (Marie) PPL's Administrative Director, as we both navigate new seasons in our lives. Deborah continues to learn how to live without her dear husband Chris and her responsibilities include managing a farm as well as leading PPL! I am challenged to remain sweet of spirit as my husband continues his walk through Alzheimer's. In the midst of it we are moving and severely downsizing both my home and the PPL office. We need God's help and the provision of His people. Your prayers make all the difference!

Call to Prayer: Jesus Doesn't Triage

John 6:5-13 (ESV)

Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?" He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little." One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?" Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thranks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost." So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.

June 14-20, 2020

1. Worship God the Provider and Sustainer of all life. Thank him for your daily bread.

2. Pray for all those who do not know where their next meal is coming from and ask God to take the gifts of his people and multiply them by the power of the Spirit of God so that all will be fed and there will even be leftovers.