Prayer Mailing List: A call to prayer and fasting

[Kelly Holland (kelly.holland54]

Call to Prayer and Fasting for 2019 General Conference


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Tuesday, February 26

Call to Fasting: West District

Prayer Focus: Love

Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your 
God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross 
into and occupy, 2 so that you and your children and your children’s children 
may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life, and keep all his decrees 
and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long. 3 
Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well 
with you, and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and 
honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you. 4 Hear, O 
Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5 You shall love the Lord your God 
with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 Keep 
these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. 7 Recite them to your 
children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when 
you lie down and when you rise. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as 
an emblem on your forehead, 9 and write them on the doorposts of your house and 
on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do 
with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. 19 We 
love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:18-19<x-apple-data-detectors://6>

Thank you, dear Lord, for your love and care for me evidenced in so many ways. 
Thank you for pardoning my sins; thank you for the opportunities to show love 
that I will encounter this day. Let it be my single ambition, my God, to honor 
you in every thought, word, and deed; and make me bold to invite all people 
around me to honor and love you as well. Your love toward me is so patient, so 
tender, even when I provoke you with my disobedience. Give me such an 
appreciation of your love for me that I may show the same patient and tender 
love to my neighbor, especially when he or she opposes me… Lord, help me to be 
peaceful rather than argumentative; help me to be quick to forget an injury and 
be reconciled to my neighbor, mindful of how many times you have forgiven my 
provocations. After your own example, make me glad to give good in return for 
evil, and thus share in the triumph of your love. In all my dealings with my 
fellow human beings, let me reflect your love, your generous spirit, your 
desire to do good both to the just and to the unjust. You have so valued each 
person that you sent your Son for each and every one. Implant, therefore, such 
a compassion in my heart for people that I will eagerly seek out how I may win 
them to your love.
David A. deSilva
Praying With John Wesley, 2003, abridged

Silence

Pray for our delegates
Laity:    Teresa Keese, Abel Vega, Ralph Thompson, Carol Loeb, Jay Brim
Clergy: Laura Merrill, Teresa Welborn, Eradio Valverde, Carl Rohlfs, Edgar 
Avitia-Legarda

The Lord’s Prayer


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