This Week's Prayer Theme:
12th
Jan 2020
As
church groups restart, we renew our covenant with God, this new year.
Please
pray;
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that we will renew our covenant with God, and seek His guidance for 2020.
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for church groups restarting new sessions.
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for the right candidate for the Anglican vacancy.
"But
as for me, and my household, we will serve the Lord".
Joshua
24; 15b.
This Week's Readings:
Jeremiah 18:1-11 (NIV)At the Potter’s House
1This is the word that
came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
2“Go
down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
3So
I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
4But
the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter
formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5Then
the word of the Lord came to me.
6He
said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord.
“Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
7If
at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down
and destroyed,
8and
if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict
on it the disaster I had planned.
9And
if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and
planted,
10and
if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the
good I had intended to do for it.
11“Now
therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is
what the Lord
says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you.
So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your
actions.’
Luke 14:25-33 (NIV)
The Cost of Being a
Disciple
25Large crowds were travelling with
Jesus, and turning to them he said:
26“If anyone comes to
me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters
yes, even their own life such a person cannot be my disciple.
27And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my
disciple.
28“Suppose one of you
wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see
if you have enough money to complete it?
29For if you lay the
foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule
you,
30saying, ‘This person
began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
31“Or suppose a king is
about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider
whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him
with twenty thousand?
32If he is not able, he
will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for
terms of peace.
33In the same way,
those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.
Prayer Requests
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