Your Word on My Heart and Home
Good afternoon GBC!
I hope ice cream and air conditioning are strengthening you today!
Midweek Meditation: Your Word on My Heart and Home
For our devotional this week I wanted to provide you this wonderful prayer from the Puritan, Robert Hawker. Hawker, an Anglican pastor in England, was one of the latest Puritans (1753-1827). This is a beautiful and broadly applicable prayer of consecration. Pray it!
Precious Jesus, you have been a strength to my poor soul, and you will be my portion forever. Help me to see my daily need of you and to feel my poverty and weakness. From persecution to my guilty conscience to the remains of sin in a body of death, to the accusations of Satan or even the last judgments of God—I am secure in you, Lord Jesus…I want your name, Lord, on the gates of my house so that no one will walk by and miss the fact that a lover of the Lord lives there! It is my highest honor to have it known whose I am, and whom I serve, in the gospel of his dear Son. How could I be ashamed of that name before which every knee bows in heaven and on earth? And Lord Jesus, not only write your name upon the gates of my house but engrave it at the center of my heart and my affections—on my first and last, my earliest and latest thoughts! Let it be my joy to speak out of the abundance of my heart about you and your great salvation. In all I say, in all I do, let it be clear that I am in pursuit of the one my soul loves. Let my every action point to your dear name. And whether at home or abroad, in my house or family, when lying down or rising up, let all creation witness for me that the love, the service, the interest, the glory of my God in Christ is the only object of my soul’s desire. Let everything in my life say this: “Whom have I in heaven but you, and there is none upon earth I desire but you. Though my flesh and heart fail, yet you are the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
Amen.
Ministry Prayer Requests
· Pray that we would move on to maturity in Christ!
· Pray for a humility before the Word.
· Pray that people would encourage one-another.
Ministry Reminders
· Come for our Family Bible Study on Wednesday. This week we will be inductively studying 1 John 2:9-11 and our intern, Jacob Mansfield, will have his teaching time with the children. It’s been a joy to see that ministry grow!
· Speaking of the intern, sign up to feed him and fellowship with him. Contact the office or signup at the Welcome Center.
· GBC Family Fun Night- July 17th from 6:30-8:30. It’s going to be awesome!
In Christ,
Pastor Kyle