Praise God and ascribe to Him the glory He alone deserves. Pray for us all to grow in our awe of who He is and all He has done for us. Pray for HIm to lead us all to boldly proclaim His goodness and gospel to all those who need to hear, around us in Birmingham and around the world. Ask Him to prepare the hearts of those with whom we will share to repent and believe.

This week we are praying for Living 180 Ministries (living180ministries.org), a ministry founded by Brook Hills members Paul and Suzanne Talley. They work to bring healing, restoration, and healthy communication to Christian couples in crisis through couple-to-couple counseling, individual counseling, marriage workshops, and trauma and addiction therapy. They also provide conflict resolution for businesses and ministries, and life coaching. Paul is PSAP certified, counseling men that are struggling with sexual struggles of any kind. Living 180 Ministries is the new name of Christian Marriages in Crisis but many of their contacts still come through their original website (christianmarriagesincrisis.com). We are also praying for Philadelphia Baptist Church and Pastor Ryan Adams.

DAY 1: Pray for Paul and Suzanne as they are seeking the Lord on the trajectory of their ministry. They need prayer for wisdom as they seek God’s will as to how best to finish strong either with this ministry or potentially also on a church staff somewhere.

DAY 2: Pray for the Talleys as they seek to pass on the knowledge and wisdom they’ve learned by developing new materials for churches, equipping and empowering church leaders to achieve similar success as they have seen in counseling marriages in crisis.

DAY 3: Continue to pray for God to bring physical healing to Suzanne. She was sick for a year with autoimmune issues but is currently doing well. Pray God will continue to strengthen her and restore her completely.

DAY 4: Pray for God to continually encourage their hearts and celebrate the wins in marriages restored through their ministry. Pray they can also see and enjoy new opportunities and growth of the ministry with confidence God is doing something new and exciting.

DAY 5: Pray for individuals, businesses, and churches to give generously as unto the Lord to provide for the ministry to continue restoring marriages and families in crisis.

DAY 6: Pray for open doors with churches to partner together and for continued growth to expand their mission to bring the gospel message to the nations through healthy Christian marriages.

This week we are praying for the Great Commission Conference taking place February 21-23.

DAY 1: Pray for travel mercies for our missionaries that are coming in for the conference. Ask God to give them good health and rest when they arrive. Pray for their families that will be traveling with them, for God to give them strength and sustain them as they travel.

DAY 2: Ask the Lord to prepare our hearts as a faith family to participate in the conference. Pray we would set aside distractions and anything that would hinder us from participating. Pray that, as we look at God’s Word and explore our moment in His mission, we will be open and sensitive to the Lord’s leading.

DAY 3: Pray for the Lord to grant our missionaries grace and humility as they prepare to share with our faith family. Pray they would be filled and led by the Spirit in their preparations. Ask the Lord to use them to speak to our hearts and that we would be encouraged by the testimonies of the Lord's faithfulness and the spread of the gospel among the nations.

DAY 4: Ask the Lord to guide and direct our staff and Global Team as they work through final preparations for the conference. Pray for the Lord to provide for their every need and for them to serve in humility and be a blessing to our missionaries and faith family. Pray the conference will run smoothly and that God's hand will be evident in everything that takes place.

DAY 5: Pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on our faith family during the conference. Pray we will grow in our love and faithfulness to the Lord, that we would treasure Him above all things and trust Him as He leads us in obedience to His Word. 

DAY 6: Pray for the Lord to transform us as we look at the Word and pray for the gospel to spread through our lives and through His church. Ask God to help us leverage our lives, our relationships, our homes, our work, and our ministries to reach our neighbor and the nations with the Good News for His glory. (Psalm 67)