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Revival and Reformation Pt 16

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{Preached last night at Heritage Presbyterian Church. Listen Here } Revival and Reformation Pt 16 2 Chronicles 15 Thank you, Lord God, that your Scriptures have been preserved through fire, decay, destruction, and time. Thank you that though nations and nasty people have tried to erase your holy Word it still remains long after they have vanished. So Lord, help us to not only appreciate the Scriptures – as at a distance, but this very day to be touched by your Book for our good and your honor, through Christ our Lord. Amen. What is the desire of your heart? What exactly do you seek and search for with all of your life energies? To answer these two questions is to show where your loyalties lie… Henry Scougal once said: “ The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love ” (“The Life of God in the Soul of Man,” 62). This is what the Spirit-directed editors of 1 and 2 Chronicles are trying to press home on God’s people throughout the ages as

Congregational and Pastoral Prayer 3 August 2014 AM and PM

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Morning: O Almighty, untamable, unstoppable God, whose goodness and mercy is from everlasting to everlasting, we come as priests, adorned with the holy vestments of Christ’s purity and righteousness. Therefore, we offer our requests for your Church and world. We pray for your worldwide Church, your Church suffering from persecutions, famine, drought, and other perils; for this congregation, and our sister churches in Oklahoma. Stir up our hearts to serve you, to keep ourselves pure, to firmly follow the way of Christ, so that our love may abound more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that we may approve the things that are excellent, that we may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ (Philippians 1.8-10). We call on you to look on those who have yet to believe in Jesus Christ and repent….May they come to hear the Gospel of Christ with new ears and enlivened hearts, to profess faith in Christ, to turn away from their sin, and to follow along with us