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The Church
has reached
a tipping point:
will it heed
or ignore
Your word?
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Set
us free from trivia and from
sectarian spirits
to proclaim the true message of
Jesus Christ
and so presage the kingdom to come.
There are many ways in which the
roots of churches and institutions
become hidebound and inflexible,
starry eyed zeal giving way to rigid
conformity.
as the spirit of joy congeals.
Where all is grey and grim
consider carefully your response:
those who challenge vested interests
always pay a heavy cost,
Sense the Lord’s call, weigh the
options well,
and then launch your action.
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Lord, some of us
are like mighty trunks
and branches
in Your Kingdom,
whilst others
are more like blossom
playing possum
on the boughs.
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In Jesus’ name
we bless each trunk
and branch
and blossom,
each leader,
pillar and one up front.
and especially those who
form the roots
beneath each visible work;
unseen
but ranging far and wide,
anchoring the tree
through drought and storm.
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Sow deep, sow true,
find ways to be merciful,
even as your Heavenly Father is
merciful to all.”
Love your enemies, and do good,
lend expecting nothing in return
and Your reward will be great,
for you will be sons and daughters
of the Most High,
who is kind even to the ungrateful
and evil.
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Lord Jesus, You are worth
ten thousand times
ten thousand of us –
but the best of us is such a
mixture.
Forgive our mixed and
missing motives.
Keep us listening to Your
whispers on the breeze,
as you fill our weak and
empty shell
and put to rout the fiends
of hell.
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Show us who You would have
us reach out to
to quicken to Your purposes
– and how.
Deep calls to deep
and You find many ways
to stir the spirit of
repentance within.
Heavenly Gardener, You never
intended us
to feel as though we sit
astride a thistle bed:
You love to remove the
thorns that prick
once we are willing to face
what life has thrown our
way,
and what we ourselves have
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And then you would have us
focus
not on what is wrong but
rather on what is right:
and to move out in the fire
of love.
Help us then to ‘remember
the dewy rose
and forget the pricking
thorn.’1
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The Pharaoh king has taught
his subjects well,
but in the end he is just a
noise.
Tilt the balance, Lord, and
spring his captives free
right across the world.
Raise up a generation of
believers from within the
nations
who in every respect
correctly handle the Word of
Truth.
Nothing but diamond-tipped
shafts of love and wisdom
will penetrate complacent
hearts.
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May we Your children make
hidden sacrifices at night
to see many wrongs put
right;
for how can we hope for the
promised harvest
unless we are prepared to
plough and sow?
May we make the most of
every opportunity
to bring what we see and
hear to You
and say to our friends,
‘Let’s pray together!’ and
see Your power released.
Let’s allow our spirits to
sweep the globe
as we join our prayers to
the mighty flow of God’s
breaking power. |
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