Frontline Prayer
The sanctuary WILL BE CLOSED!
STILL, WHEREVER YOU MAY BE at 10 a.m. on Friday, join in prayer for the spiritual needs at TFN, in our personal lives, in the lives of those God may be leading us to bless, in our imediate neghborhood, and in our neighborhoods as well as pray for the spiritual work God is doing & wants to do in all of us!!
If you need a little fodder for your prayers, read the "thoughts" that are provided following this announcement.
As we close this year's Easter Season and transition to the Day & Season of Pentecost ~ the reality of His Life among us, His Life WITHIN us through the Holy Spirit, continue to THANK THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY for The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, adding REJOICING for the Presence and Ministry of the Holy Spirit!
THANK THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY for The Resurrection of Jesus Christ!
Without the Resurrection, there is NO LIFE in Christ … because He would not be alive, but because He did rise from the dead, He is alive and the hope of all of God’s promises are true! Such as these promises we have reiterated over these several months:
- Our lives … YOUR LIFE … can be “hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3)
- We … YOU … can be, will be, ARE … blessed by God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ …
- Chosen before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight …
- Loved …
- Predestined to be adopted …
- Redeemed through His blood …
- Forgiven of sins …
- Lavished with His Grace …
- Given revelation of His Will purposed in Christ …
- Marked in Him with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit ~who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance of the final redemption in Christ (Ephesians 1:3-14, portions)
ALL because of the Resurrection!
AMAZING!
The “Seal” … The Holy Spirit is the source and resource of wisdom and revelation Whom Paul declares he continually prays that God … the Glorious Father … will give the believers in Ephesus.
Why?
So, they may know Him (The Father & The Son) better!
How does that happen?
It happens just as Paul continues to voice his prayers for the people:
- That their eyes … our eyes .. your eyes … “may be enlightened that you may know the hope to which He has called you,”
- That they ... that we ... that you ... may know “the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people,” and
- That they ... that we ... that you ... you may know “His incomparably great power for us who believe” which is the same power “He exerted when He raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.” (Ephesians 1:15-21, portions)
Again … ALL because of the Resurrection!
Praise the Lord!
Without the Resurrection, there is no life in Christ, there is no connection possible, beyond a mental one, with a teacher who lived 33 years …nearly 2000 years ago … BUT because He is ALIVE, His promises are true and all things have been placed under His feet. As Paul wrote:
… He (God the Father) raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for The Church, 23 which is His Body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way. ~ Ephesians 1:20-23
… AND … God invites you to participate in this power. Listen as Paul prays again for the Ephesian believers:
14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, 21 to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. ~ Ephesians 3:14-20
Pray prayers of REJOICING because of the TREMENDOUS POWER God has given to all who believe Him and receive Him through the Resurrection of Jesus and because of the resultant, gifted & continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit WITHIN us! Pray for this reality to become an ever-present reality to you … and to MANY OTHERS!