Thank God for our Missions Festival this past weekend. Bless Tim and Carol Avery, and the other missionaries who came. May NCC’s commitment to world missions be deepened and strengthened.

Pray for our upcoming Reformation Sunday service, and for Doug O’Donnell, who is scheduled to be preaching.  

Pray for the Associate Pastor Search Team. May the Lord give us wisdom and lead us to the right man for the job.

Dear heavenly Father, the maker of all things and the sustainer of all things. We come before you this morning humbly and needy once again with expectant hearts knowing that you are the great sustainer of our souls. 

Lord we eagerly long to see your will be done in this earth. We await that day when your kingdom does come, and you make all things right as they are in heaven. We ask that you would continually keep our minds set in anticipation for that fantastic day, when you bring justice and cause all our brokenness to be made whole.

But until that day comes, we ask that you would continue to sustain us for we are in fact a people of brokenness and great need. We ask that you would provide all we need physically, give us energy throughout this week, heal and comfort those amongst us who are suffering through health struggles, provide for those who are in need financially, and minister to those facing heartbreak and loss. Be near us and our families, oh God.

We also ask that you would sustain us spiritually. Teach us to be fully satisfied in you. Continue to form us into disciples who reveal you more and more to the broken world around us.
Lord we also admit that we have turned from you and trusted in other things to sustain us and fill us this week. Against you Lord we have sinned and we take time to silently repent before you….

Thank you God for the blood of Jesus Christ and for his resurrection that provides forgiveness of our sins and the hope for life everlasting. Let us live in Christ not forgetting all that he has done, out of love, for us.

God, we thank you for those with us this week who labor in your name throughout the world. Would they be an encouragement to us and may we be a blessing to them. I ask that you would bless them and uphold them in what they are doing.

We pray for Tim Avery as he opens your word. Please speak through him in such a way that it penetrates our hearts and leads us to a greater love and obedience to you. We pray all this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.