| 2016 - A YEAR FOR PRAYER IN HOWE TRINITY | |||
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At our
Kirk Session meeting in November, the Session agreed that 2016 should be a
"Year for Prayer" in Howe Trinity. A small group has been working
with the minister to plan for this special project. The primary aims of the
year will be: — to provide teaching on prayer — to provide opportunities for our congregation to learn how to pray on your own — to provide opportunities for our congregation to learn how to pray with other people — to provide resources for prayer The theme of the Year will be, "Lord, teach us to pray" (Luke 11.1) |
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| Praying people recognise our daily dependence on the Holy
Spirit. A call to prayer is a call to praise, confession, repentance,
meditation, intercession and to decisive redemptive action. A call to prayer is
a call to live with God. A call to prayer begins with the leadership of the church, that those who lead may be open to being led by the Spirit. A call to prayer rests on every Christian person: in the privacy of the home, in the melee of the working day, in public worship or committed prayer groups. The ways are many. The call is one. Let us pray. We recommend that congregations explore how they might deepen their life of prayer to be more open to the renewing Spirit of God. We will not settle for reform that changes structures and leaves lives untouched by Christ. I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord. (Jeremiah 24:7) Recommendation 24: That Kirk Sessions identify ways of deepening the prayer life of their congregations individually and together. The Church Without Walls Report to the General Assembly of 2001 |
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| MY RESPONSE TO "A YEAR FOR PRAYER" | |||
| 1. In 2016 I will seriously commit myself to learn to pray.
2. I will consciously choose to spend a set time in prayer each day 1. How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word; what more can He say than to you He hath said, you who unto Jesus for refuge have fled? 2. Fear not, He is with thee, O be not dismayed; for He is thy strength, and will still give thee aid: He'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, upheld by his righteous, omnipotent hand. 3. When through the deep rivers He calls thee to go, the rivers of grief shall not thee overflow; for He will be with thee in trouble to bless, and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 4. When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, His grace all sufficient shall be thy supply; the flame shall not hurt thee, His only design thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine. 5. The soul that on Jesus has leant for repose He will not, He cannot, desert to its foes: that soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake, He'll never, no never, no never forsake. Words by "K" in Rippon's Selection, 1787, altered. |
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| Two books are being recommended for our "Year for
Prayer" 1. A book about praying - Too busy not to pray by Bill Hybels (£7) 2. A book of prayers - A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie (£8.50) You can order either or both of these books on the signup sheet at the front of the church, or of course you can buy them online. A Lent Study Group will meet on Thursday evenings at 7.30pm - 18 Feb, 25 Feb, 3 Mar and 10 Mar - to study Too Busy Not To Pray. Please let the minister know if you intend coming. |
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