Praying Series #21 Knowing God Better

“I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.” (Ephesians 1:16-17)

Week 4 – Paul’s Prayers: So often our prayer lives are consumed with us asking God for things: asking to be delivered from hardship; given favour with our employers; peace with friends we have fallen out with; help for raising children; energy serving in the church; provision of our various material needs. These are all right and proper things we should pray for, knowing that all things come from God’s gracious hand. But above all these things, I hope that we would pray like Paul - for ourselves and for each other in Carrubbers - that we would know the Lord Jesus Christ better. Through Jesus (the image of the invisible God) we see God as our Father, having been adopted into His family; we also receive the Holy Spirit who enables us to be made ever more like Jesus, to know His mind and to be in constant fellowship with Him through prayer. To know God is eternal life, and we should want to deepen our experience of the reality of eternal life through our relationship with the living God. That is a great thing to be asking God for in prayer, and to be asking for each other as we seek to help and encourage one another to grow up into the full maturity of Christ, as brothers and sisters in the gospel community of His body the church.

Listen to this worship music today as you prepare to spend time in prayer getting to know Jesus better.

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Pray today and join us tonight at 8pm in focused prayer for the Set-Up Team and Unity:

• Pray that you will grow to know God better in the coming month and everyday thereafter, through the Spirit He has given us to make Himself known in our lives
• Pray especially for Paul and his team this week as they seek to put together all the set for Room65 and transform Carrubbers into an amazing live music café experience
• Pray that all the little things will come together smoothly and quickly so that things are ready on time
• Pray that all the teams will be united as we seek to be the body of Christ, working together in this gospel mission to bring glory to God and bring the gospel to the lost

Learn more today: Andrew Murray, “With Christ in the School of Prayer”: Twenty-First Lesson – “The All-Inclusive Condition”
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