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"O Lord God, We Implore You..." - 16 February 2025

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  O Lord God, we implore you to make us a holy, joy-filled people in our homes, occupations, and in our various networks of friends. May those who are married be free of strife, pettiness, and fear. May those who are single be chaste and holy, enjoying you in their God-ward singleness. May the children grow stronger in grace and wisdom, loving you all their days while obeying and honoring their parents and may the parents raise their children in faithfulness and godliness – growing believers and discipling worshipers. And may the elderly flourish in God-given strength, patience, and sound-mindedness. Further, help us to be the kind of congregation that is instrumental in drawing the straying back to Christ and his church. Hear us as we silently remember some of them before you now (…). O Lord God, we pray for your Church in all nations, as well as Community Missionary Baptist, Crest, Cross, and Crossroads to Life Baptist Church. Grant your Church to live out the righteousness, pe...
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"O Lord Mercifully Look Upon..." - 9 February 2025

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  O Lord Jesus Christ, our God, your mercies and loving-kindnesses have been from everlasting. You became man and stooped to endure crucifixion and death for the salvation of all who rightly believe in you. You rose from the dead for our justification and ascended into heaven and sit at the right hand of God the Father, from whence you shall come to judge the living and the dead; and as our great High Priest you regard the humble prayers of all who call upon you with their whole heart. Incline your ear and hear. First of all, remember your Holy Universal Church, which you have purchased with your precious blood; including this congregation; and Choctaw Road Baptist, Christ Chapel, Christian Faith Missionary Baptist, and College Heights Baptist Church; as well as your servants who are under persecution for your sake and for the sake of your holy gospel – such as the Bawn peoples in Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Pastors Project. Confirm and strengthen your Church, enlarge and multipl...
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"Our Father..." - 2 February 2025

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  (The Lord's Prayer guides this congregational prayer, and the Heidelberg Catechism fills it)  Our Father Who art in heaven : we come to you trusting and rejoicing that you are our Father through Jesus Christ, and that you will answer us, as promised, with as much readiness as, and even more readiness than, our earthly parents. And we trust that we may expect from your almighty power all things necessary for body and soul. Hear us, Father, as we pray. Hallowed be thy name : Enable us rightly to know, reverence, magnify, and praise you in all your works, through which shine forth your power, wisdom, goodness, justice, mercy, and truth; and likewise to so order our whole life, in thought, word, and work, that your name may never be blasphemed, but honored and praised on our account. Thy kingdom come : Preserve and increase your Church, to include this congregation and these churches in the greater OKC area: Bread of Life Baptist, Mt. Calvary Baptist, Central Baptist and Chinese...
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"Great and Amazing Are Your Deeds" - 26 January 2025

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  With all of those who conquered the beast and its image, and with our brothers and sisters world over, we lift our hearts with the song of Moses and the Lamb: “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed” (Revelation 15:3b-4). O Lord God the Almighty, whose deeds are great and amazing: you have not only called to yourself men, women, girls and boys from every tribe, tongue, and town, but you have been faithful and called us into the fellowship of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord (1 Corinthians 1:9). We pray for all of your people on every continent, our own congregation, Antioch Baptist Church, Aydelotte Baptist, Baptized Believers in the Word of God, and Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church. Bring us all to happily submit ourselves to your Scriptures as the final...
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"Most Loving Father" - 19 January 2025

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  Most loving Father, who has called us into your family by the Gospel of Jesus Christ and by the working of your Holy Spirit, give us strength and desire to walk worthy of our calling, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity produced by the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:1-3). We ask you to aid and support our missionaries, Dan and Carol Iverson in Japan; the Pardigons; Mark and Lori Berry; Dan and Becky Young in North Mexico; and especially John Rober Biggs and the RUF at OSU. Grant to them goodwill, safety, reliable co-laborers and all the financial resources they need in their mission work; and may their labor produce more than they could humanly concoct. Look upon your Church throughout the world, along with these congregations in the greater OKC area; New Life AOG, Rock Assembly, Spring Creek AOG, and Triumph Family Worship Center. Give your approval and aid to their endeavors at being ho...
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"Our Help Is in the Name of the LORD" - 12 January 2025

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  Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth (Psalm 121:2). Hear us, O Lord our help, and for Christ’s sake answer us. O Lord of the Harvest, have regard to the prayers of your servants in this church; send us forth as laborers into your harvest; fit and prepare us by your grace for our vocation and ministry; increase in us the Spirit of power, love and sober-mindedness; strengthen us to endure hardships as good soldiers of Jesus Christ; and grant that your Holy Spirit may prosper our work, that by our life and doctrine we may show forth your glory and be instrumental in the salvation of many. Further, give your resilient, durable aid to John Robert Biggs. Build up his support. Protect his family. And may their work with RUF-OSU be deeply fruitful. Look upon your Church throughout the world, including these congregations in the greater OKC area; First Assembly of God, Generations Church, Go Church, and Memorial AOG Give your church your comforting, courage...
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"Government in the Gospels" by Jonathan M. Craig. A Review

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  I have long ago tired of books that claim to have a Christian fix to civil government. They simply fall flat on me. But "Government in the Gospels: Daily Reflections for Government Officials" is not one of those manuals. Instead, Jonathan M. Craig, a Navy Chaplain, onetime Assistant Pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Tallahassee, Florida, and now a Florida State Capitol Minister with Mission to North America’s Ministry to State, has given Government officials a devotional guide that is more personal, and helps them to reflect on their calling without promoting sectarian political schemes. It's simple, but goes straight to the heart! The book covers 55 daily devotions that walk a magistrate through the flow of the gospels. It aims "to facilitate the government official's regular communion with the living God by connecting the reader with every passage in the four Gospels directly related to government." It is an ingenious approach that aids ...
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