HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH PRAYER DIARY NEW SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE TIMES 9:00 & 10:45A.M.

MONDAYEVANGELISTIC PRAYER Chronological Bible Reading: Ezekiel 16-18; 1 Peter 1 Monday, November 19 1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. O Lord, My Father: Let me put myself in the seat of my lost friend _________. All I have to do is consider who I was, and what I feel like even now when temptation has power over me, and I marvel at your salvation. I am called the son of God! Lord, help me be used of your Spirit to bring __________ into that same relationship. What a privileged relationship to be a son. What care and tenderness I can expect from my Father. All thatand more than thatI have a right to expect through the grace that is in Jesus Christ. There is one temporary drawback: suffering. But suffering simply brings me into sympathy and conformity with Christ my elder brother. Lord, help me accept it as an honor, and count it all joy when I can be buked and rebuked with him, no matter what direction it comes from. I am content to be unknown with him in his humiliation, because I know I will be exalted with him in his kingdom! Right now I am a son of God. That is easy to read but sometimes hard for me to feel. How is it with other hearts today? Can I go out and find someone in sorrow to share the good news with? Corruption so often rises inside my flesh. Grace often seems like a spark trampled underfoot. My faith almost fails so many times. I thank you I can fear not, because it is neither on my own graces nor in my own feelings that I rely. I simply live by the life of Christ. With all these things against me, nowas much in the valley as on the mountaintopI am a son of the living God. Help me lead others to the same adoption in Christ. My righteousness does not shine as it could, but when He shall appear, I shall be like him. Hasten that day, for Jesus sake! Amen. TUESDAYFOCUS ON CHRISTS LIFE Chronological Bible Reading: Ezekiel 19-21; 1 Peter 2 Tuesday, November 20 Matt. 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Heavenly Father and Glorious Lord: Let me pray about prayer. Nothing pays like prevailing prayer. If I have power in prayer, I will have everything at my beck and call. I can ask for whatever I need to complete your mission. Lord, I ask for what Adam lost by the fall, and what I have lost by my own neglect, backsliding, and lack of prayer. Lord, I seek for the grace I need this week before Thanksgiving. Lord, when I seem to be cut off from blessing, from knowledge that I need, even from hope itself, then I knock. Lord, I plead: you have promised your own intervention. I can receive when I ask. I can find when I seek. But I cannot open when I knock. Only you can, or else I am shut-out forever. I thank you Lord, that ever since the death of Jesus there is no cherub with a fiery sword guarding this gate and driving me away (Gen. 3:24). Indeed and on the contrary, Jesus himself opens to me and no one can shut (Rev. 3:8). Sometimes I fear my failures have barred the way. My own lack of faith fastens the door from the inside. But it is not so in spiritual reality. The gate is neither bolted nor barred. It is only closed in the sense that I kept my mouth shut and did not pray. In actuality, the veil has been torn in two. Can all receive this teaching? Will I believe you are glad to open the gate to my knocking cries? How else can I complete the mission? Your blessing is only closed in my perception, but not in matter of fact. Give me and my brothers and sisters the courage to enter in to all Jesus has and is! Amen. FRIDAY 40 DAYS OF PRAYER FOR HARVESTKIDS Chronological Bible Reading: Ezekiel 28-30; 1 Peter 5 Friday, November 23 Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. Guiding God and Gracious Redeemer: The Promised Land was possessed. No more camping out, no more moving tents, no more fiery serpents or fierce Amalekites in a howling wilderness. They came to live in a land flowing with milk and honey. Lord, make it so to our church and our children! Make each of our services flow with the milk and honey of souls saved! Help us give honey to the lost, so their eyes will be enlightened and their blindness to the gospel removed! Let us give the milk of the word of God to our precious childrenboth those that are our physical children, and others who are children in the faith. The possibility is both joyful and awe-inspiring! Make our faith an active exercise to yield a sure reward. Our unbelief shudders at Jordans watersobstacles that stand in between. Help us, with Jesus the Captain of the Lords host, to banish every fearful thought, and let us rejoice with exceeding great joy in the prospects of the holiday season. Let it be the earnest prayer of every ministry head, leader and teacher that we would see souls saved. We rest in your love; so we reach out. We have perfect peace in Jesus; so let others. We have pardon and forgiveness; so let the lost. This is not denied any sinner who will simply come to Christ and enter into that rest. Help us Lord to gather eternal fruit (the souls of people) on earthly ground. We are well-watered at this church. Give us great buckets of the water of life for others, and rain down on us in revival! We have no need of angels food yet. Give us the grace of Jesus Christ to feed on, for we ask it in his precious name. Amen. WEDNESDAYREVIVAL PRAYING Chronological Bible Reading: Ezekiel 22-24; 1 Peter 3 Wednesday, November 21 Ezra 9:6 O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. O Lord, My Father: You are in heaven, but I am still on earth. My being is but yesterday and my foundation is in the dust. It is only in you I have any purpose, and live and move and have my being. If you withhold your breath I die. I mourn before you Lord, because of my pride and vanity of mind, the aggression of my arrogance, my earthly-mindedness and love of this world, my sensuality and indulgence of my flesh, my carnal security and unthankfulness under a cloudburst of plenteous mercies, my fretfulness and impatience, and my sinful defection in times of trial. I confess my neglect of spiritual disciplines and lack of love to you, my unbelief and hardness of heart, my slothfulness and decay in spirituality, the dishonors I have brought to your name, and all my mistakes toward my fellow creatures. How often have they been repeatedboth before I knew you savingly, and even since. I committed them against much light and I have sinned against much love. After many rebukes, both through the Bible and through your providence, and after many comforts from the gospel and the Spirit of God, I have nevertheless done all these things. Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Lam 3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. I put my face on the floor to worship and plead for forgiveness, trusting in the merits of Jesus Christ my Lord. Mercy must start there. Spiritual power and life more abundant begin in that spot. Make Jesus more and more to me. Make him my all in all, and give me revival in result. Amen. SATURDAYIN THE PSALMS Chronological Bible Reading: Ezekiel 31-33; 2 Peter 1 Saturday, November 24 Psa. 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. Holy Lord and Glorious God: You are good all the time, and nothing else but good to me. You cannot act unjustly or ever be unkind. Your goodness is beyond successful contradiction and without compromise. This is a firm anchor when I am troubled, when storms arise from things I dont understand. Whatever may or may not be the truths about these events, there are certainties in your hand. They may not be within my grasp, but you hold them, and I cling to you. That keeps me from being carried away by hurricanes of confusion. Lord no matter how confused I am, let me never think badly of you! No Jesus, if I cannot understand you, still let me never doubt you. You are good to those whom you have made good in Christ, and have renewed their heart. Psa. 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. There is a great battle within my soul, because while all the time you are good, I must confess my sin. Can I expect a share of your grace? Yes, I do share it, but I often do not act like someone who has received it. If I see only the present and forget the future, I soon grow envious and discontent. Errors of heart soon affect my conduct. When I doubt your righteousness, my own integrity begins to waver. Strengthen me in the inner man. Wisdom is expensive, but if I buy it I no longer have to fret over anything. You have shown me what the end will be. Simply make me more fit for eternity. This is the prize, the goal, and my desire. Give me grace for growth. Sink my soul deeper into you. Make me cling tighter onto you. Help me climb higher up for you. Do it all for your own glory and praise. Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING Chronological Bible Reading: Ezekiel 25-27; 1 Peter 4 Thursday, November 22 Heb. 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

PRAISE to God Who reigns above, binding earth and Heavn in love;
When the lost are found again, when the banished come to reign! Seraphim His praises sing, Cherubim on fourfold wing, Thrones, dominions, princes, powers, marshaled might that never cowers. Speeds tharchangel from His face, bearing messages of grace; Angel hosts His words fulfill, ruling nature by His will. Yet on man they joy to wait, all that bright celestial state, For in man their Lord they see, Christ, thincarnate Deity. On the throne their Lord Who died sits in manhood glorified; Where His people faint below angels count it joy to go. Now in faith, in hope, in love, we will join the choirs above, Praising, with the heavnly host, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Richard M. Benson, 1861

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HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH PRAYER DIARY NEW SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE TIMES 9:00 & 10:45A.M.

HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH

PRAYER DIARY

ANNOUNCEMENTS

HOW TO BUILD A BALANCED LIFE

TODAY

1)

TIMEWORSHIP Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

INTERCEDE WITH GOD INSTRUCT SAINTS PROMPT PETITIONS KICKSTART DEVOTION

INSTRUCTIONS:

10:45A.M. High School Class has moved from 9:00A.M. to the late service 4:00P.M. Jr. Choir for kids K-5th grade in the auditorium HarvestKids childrens worker training, in the gym
WEDNESDAY

Baptists tend to ridicule liturgical churches that use "prepared prayers" because they lack spontaneity. But for many Baptists, their prayers are so predictable they are no more spontaneous than written-out prayers. The result is we end up praying the same things over and over. This daily Prayer Diary will prompt you on a wide range of prayer requests you might not normally think of, while forcing you to articulate a deeper devotion to God. We have included a daily Bible reading schedule. This plan will take you through the Bible chronologically in a year. Do not read ahead and do not try to catch up. Use each day as it comes. Then you can know that on any given day, dozens of other people are lifting their hearts in the same mind to God. Pray what is written, but use what is prayed as a springboard for your own relationship with God. You learn to pray by praying. Alan

7:00P.M. No AWANA or adult service Thanksgiving Eve

THURSDAY

GIVE GOD THE FIRST PART OF EVERY DAY. The first commitment is to a daily quiet time with God. Our weekly Prayer Diary provides a template for daily devotions. 2) TITHEWORK 1 Cor 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. GIVE GOD THE FIRST DIME OF EVERY DOLLARno questions asked. Ten percent is a miniscule amount in our affluent society, but it must come off the top in order to show that God is our priority. We want the blessing of the firstfruits (first devotion, first dime and first day) to flow out to the rest of our resources. 3) TEAMWORD Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. GIVE GOD THE FIRST DAY OF EVERY WEEK. You should fellowship with a group of believers around the word of God every Sunday in our church.

Happy Thanksgiving!
SATURDAY

9:00A.M. Ladies Exercise Program Kickboxing/Pilates (9-10am), Zumba (10-11am), Yoga (11-11:30am)
NEXT SUNDAY

9:00 & 10:45A.M. The Mission of Passion, Mark 12:28-31

VOLUNTEER

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Secret prayer is the secret of prayer, the soul of prayer, the seal of prayer, the strength of prayer. If you do not pray alone you do not pray at all. Our Lord Jesus Christ would go nowhere till He had prayed. He would attempt nothing till He had prayed. Oh, says one, I live in the spirit of prayer, and therefore I do not need times and seasons for prayer. And do you think that Christ did not live in the spirit of prayer? Yet He had to have his special time and place to pray. Do not fall under the injurious notion that because your spirit cries to God in prayer all day long, therefore there must not be some season for more immediately coming into Gods presence. If you imagine this, I am afraid that it will prove a snare to your feet. The Lord Jesus Christ, who knew better than you do that the main thing is the spirit of prayer rather than the act of prayer, yet Himself retired into desert places to maintain the act and exercise of prayer. Be spiritual. Be baptized into the spirit of prayer. But do not be deceived by the enemy, who can steal a spirit away while we dream that we only spiritualize it. We had better preserve the very bones of prayerthe posture, the time, placerather than let it all ooze away into an impalpable mental condition. God keep us prayerful. He will do so if He makes us like His dear Son. Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834-92

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Keeping Christ at the center (your core relationship of worship to God) Keeping the body of Christ a priority (your congregational relationship of walking with us) Basing beliefs and actions on the mind of Christ (your church relationship in the Word)

QUALITY CHRISTIANITY INVOLVES THREE THINGS

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