This Week
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Pray for the Church
Praise God for the gift of His Word and the authority it carries in our lives. Thank Him for all those faithful Christ-followers who have gone before us, paving the way for our own faith. Pray we will all grow in grace and faith. Pray He will orchestrate our lives and help us to obediently follow so that He might rightfully receive the glory He alone deserves.
Pray for the City
This week, we are praying for Lifeline Children’s Services (lifelinechild.org), a full-service adoption and orphan care ministry headquartered in Birmingham that serves families and children in the United States and around the globe. Lifeline exists to provide hope and a future through the gospel for vulnerable children around the world by discipling, engaging, and equipping the body of Christ towards adoption, foster care, orphan care, and support. We are also praying for North Shelby Baptist Church and Pastor Allan Murphy.
DAY 1: Pray for the sixteen Colombian children who visited Birmingham during Lifeline’s Colombia Kids Camp in October. Pray that they would sense the love of Christ for them and that a family would come forward for each of them.
DAY 2: Pray for Lifeline as they advocate for hundreds of children waiting for adoption around the world. Pray that missional families would rise up all over our city and country to adopt children who need to hear and see the gospel.
DAY 3: Pray that Lifeline would be able to serve, equip, and disciple birth families, children in foster care, and adoptive families well.
DAY 4: Pray that Lifeline would continue to have opportunities to share the gospel in the countries that they work—both through their staff and through families traveling.
DAY 5: Pray that the Lord would continue to open doors for Lifeline to work and minister to birth mothers.
DAY 6: Pray for Lifeline’s leadership team as they prayerfully lead and serve the Lifeline staff.
Pray for the World
This week we are praying for the Sherpa people of Nepal. The Sherpa are the famous inhabitants of the valleys leading to Mt. Everest. They have labored for years as guides and porters alongside climbers attempting to summit Mt. Everest. There are approximately 145,000 Sherpa in Nepal, 0.3% of whom are Evangelical Christians. The Sherpa are primarily Buddhists, however there is a movement among them to Christ. Join us as we pray for the Sherpa of Nepal.
DAY 1: Ninety-eight percent of the Sherpa people profess to be Buddhist (Tibetan form). However, few do little more than recite scripture or have a Buddhist statue in their home. If they are religious, most believe in a combination of religion and magic. Pray for God to awaken a desire among the Sherpa to know their creator and seek truth.
DAY 2: There are approximately 50,000 Sherpa living in places like India, Bhutan, Tibet, and America. Pray for those Sherpa living in areas of the world where they have access to the gospel to hear of Christ and follow him.
DAY 3: Trading is an important economic activity for the Sherpa. The men make long trading expeditions and are often gone for many months. Pray that the gospel would spread along the trade routes of the Sherpa from village to village.
DAY 4: Pray for God to send more laborers into Nepal to minister to the needs of the Sherpa and share the gospel. Ask for the Holy Spirit to grant wisdom and favor to missions agencies currently working among the Sherpa.
DAY 5: In the 1980’s, a young Sherpa boy was saved and eventually this led to the conversion of his extended family. That boy went away to Bible college and has since returned to pastor a local church in his village. Reports suggest a movement of as many as 500 underground Sherpa believers in Nepal. Pray for God to make these believers bold to proclaim the gospel to their friends and family. Pray for God to strengthen this Sherpa church for the glory of His name.
DAY 6: Pray for God prepare the hearts of the Sherpa people to receive the gospel message. Pray for God to use the Sherpa to reach other unreached people groups living throughout the remote Himalayas of Nepal.
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Bless the Lord (Son of Man)
Son of Man, Son of Righteousness
King of the earth for sinners slain
I was lost in darkness bound
You ransomed my heart and I will sing
My strength, My deliverer
The One who rescues me
My hope, My redeemer
Your love has set me free
Bless the Lord, O my soul (4x)
In the splendor of Your majesty
From deep within my spirit sings
Holy, holy
Bless the Lord, O my soul (4x)
His Mercy is More
Verse 1
What love could remember no wrongs we have done
Omniscient all knowing He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
Verse 2
What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest the vilest the poor
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
Verse 3
What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment His life was the cost
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
Chorus
Praise the Lord His mercy is more
Stronger than darkness new every morn
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Verse 1
A mighty fortress is our God
A bulwark never failing
Our helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us woe
His craft and pow'r are great
And armed with cruel hate
On earth is not his equal
Verse 2
Did we in our own strength confide
Our striving would be losing
Were not the right Man on our side
The Man of God's own choosing
Dost ask who that may be
Christ Jesus it is He
Lord Sabaoth His name
From age to age the same
And He must win the battle
Verse 3
And tho' this world with devils filled
Should threaten to undo us
We will not fear for God hath willed
His truth to triumph thru us
The prince of darkness grim
We tremble not for him
His rage we can endure
For lo his doom is sure
One little word shall fell him
Verse 4
That word above all earthly pow'rs
No thanks to them abideth
The Spirit and the gifts are ours
Thru Him who with us sideth
Let goods and kindred go
This mortal life also
The body they may kill
God's truth abideth still
His kingdom is forever
O Praise the Name
Verse 1
I cast my mind to Calvary
Where Jesus bled and died for me
I see His wounds His hands His feet
My Savior on that cursed tree
Verse 2
His body bound and drenched in tears
They laid Him down in Joseph's tomb
The entrance sealed by heavy stone
Messiah still and all alone
Chorus
O praise the Name of the Lord our God
O praise His Name forevermore
For endless days we will sing Your praise
O Lord O Lord our God
Verse 3
Then on the third at break of dawn
The Son of heaven rose again
O trampled death where is your sting
The angels roar for Christ the King
Verse 4
He shall return in robes of white
The blazing sun shall pierce the night
And I will rise among the saints
My gaze transfixed on Jesus' face
In Christ Alone
Verse 1
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light my strength my song
This Cornerstone this solid Ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love what depths of peace
When fears are stilled when strivings cease
My Comforter my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
Verse 2
In Christ alone who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
Verse 3
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
Verse 4
No guilt in life no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand
Bridge
I find my strength I found my hope
I find my help in Christ alone
When fear assails when darkness falls
I found my peace in Christ alone
I give my life I give my all
I sing my song to Christ alone
The King of Kings the Lord of Lords
All heaven sings to Christ alone
To Christ alone
To Christ alone
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