Day of Praise

Sa, 02/22/14, "Day of Praise"

Ephesians 1:15-16 - "For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers."

How can our Day of Praise community pray for you? Hit "reply" today and everyday moving forward, and I'll send out your prayer requests with the next day's devotion.

I do indeed thank you all for the countless prayers and emails that you sent yesterday to my mom and dad through me.

I was able to drive up and spend some very good time with my parents, sisters, and brother. My dad is sedated and on a ventilator in ICU with his brain, heart, lungs, and kidneys all distressed. In the next few days, the doctor is hoping for some sign of improvement, which, at this point, would be a miracle. But, whether or not the miracle comes, my dad's had a good, productive, faith-filled, long life. He's ready for the arms of Jesus. And all of your prayers were very apparent as we felt a real and powerful peace over our family prayer times around Dad's bed and our family conversation about Dad's life and the ways we'll publicly remember and celebrate his life when he dies, whether it's very soon or further down the road.

Please start to send in your prayer requests for us to pass on to our Day of Praise community so we can continue to grow together in Christ and enjoy what God promises in today's verse, (Ephesians 1:15-16), "For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers."

Praise God!


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson