Lakeview Christian Center

October: Church Family

Women of the Church

“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.” (Titus 2:3-5)

Pray for….

–Women’s Conference 2013: Too Good to Be True Grace
…God to free women burdened by guilt
…God to assure women worried in their circumstances
…God to save women lost in their sin
-Effective fellowship among the women of the church
-Strengthening of biblical roles and values for women
-Encouragement and empowerment for wives and mothers
-Grace and faith for single moms and for those who may struggle in their season of singleness
-Help for women burdened by infertility
-Women to rejoice in trials and persevere in affliction
-Young ladies to speak grace and promote unity
-Church filled with women who hate gossip, idleness, jealousy, and strife but who study God’s Word daily, bear the church’s burdens through prayer, and encourage the saints in steadfast faith.

October: Church Family

Morning Meditation Psalm: Psalm 84
Song: “Haven’t You Been Good”

Fellowship & Relationships

“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:19-22)

Pray for….

-Consistent and meaningful participation in Covenant Group ministry
-Healthy development of church membership
-Establishment of meaningful friendships
-Commitment to fellowship and consistent attendance
-Church characterized by godly conversations
-Humble pursuit of accountability and correction
-Freedom from bitterness, jealousy, gossip, and other enemies of relationships
-Those on “the fringe” to feel welcomed and connected
-Gospel to be at the center of our relationships and church life

September: Health of the Church

Morning Meditation Psalm: Psalm 86
Song: “Thank You for Saving Me”

Salvation & Growth

“…and the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved” (Acts 2.47).

Pray for….

-Unbelievers who enter today to be warmed by the Gospel
-Those in the church with false assurance to be truly convicted of their sin and to be saved
-Increased passion for personal evangelism among us
-That we would be a church characterized by the Great Commission: disciples being created and cared for.
-Believers without a local church to find a home among us
-That we would be a growing church—growing in number, in mission, in godliness, and in the gospel
-Alpha Fall 2013

September: Health of the Church

Morning Meditation Psalm: Psalm 63
Song: “Blessed”

Prayer Ministry

“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16)

Pray for….

-We would be a healthy church—and thus a praying church
-Growth of an intercessory community
-All members of the church to respond to the call to pray
-Times of corporate prayer to be filled with believing hearts
-Personal prayer and communion with God to be valued and non-negotiable
-Bearing of one another’s burdens through prayer
-Our prays to be God-focused and Kingdom-minded
-Prayer to support and saturate everything we do as a church
-God would bless our times of prayer with tangible expressions of his presence
-God would lead us to pray in ways that reflect his will and his purposes