Pray, Praise and Worship: #ValuePeople more than your own opinion #Pray4ppl

Thursday, September 17, 2020

#ValuePeople more than your own opinion #Pray4ppl

Life Support Prayer Calendar

Dear Prayer Team Member,

"This kind of thing (assigning discriminatory labels) isn't new. People have labeled, disrespected and ostracized others since the beginning of time. In the Bible we read of the shunning of lepers, as though their disease rendered them less than suffering human beings with human needs. Still, today, we speak of “social lepers.” Observant Jews would give a wide birth to the heretical Samaritans. When Paul counseled Titus regarding his ministry in Crete (Titus 1:12), he quoted the Cretan writer Epimenides, who wrote, “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.” Jesus was criticized for his interactions with “Tax collectors and sinners.” Women were considered to be generally “less than” men. In world history, the most egregious examples of labeling people for wicked ends were the Nazi campaign against the Jews, and the African slave trade, both of which promoted the lie that Jews and slaves were sub-human."

Excerpt from the Sep-Dec Call to prayer
by Executive Director, Deborah Hollifield:

Call to Prayer: "Identity Politics"

Nehemiah 9:6,

Acts 17:24-25 (NASB)

“You alone are the Lord.
You have made the heavens,
The heaven of heavens with all their host,
The earth and all that is on it,
The seas and all that is in them.
You give life to all of them
And the heavenly host bows down before You.

The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things.

Sep 13-19, 2020

1. Repent of viewing others through a lens of political identity and responding emotionally without hearing or regarding the individual logic and argument of the person.

2. Worship God the Creator of all things and the Giver of Life. Pray that Presbyterians will refresh their understanding of God as Sovereign Creator and Sustainer of human life and breath.

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