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

MONDAYEVANGELISTIC PRAYER Chronological Bible Reading: Exodus 37-38; Matthew 22:24-46 Monday, February 4 Eccl. 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Precious Lord My Savior: Life in its simplest form is better than death. That is as certain in the spiritual realm as the physical. It is better for me to be the least in the kingdom of God than the greatest one standing outside of it. That means the lowest degree of grace is superior to the noblest development of unregenerate human nature. Holy Ghost, wherever you conceive eternal life in a soul there is a generous deposit. Not even the refinement of education and academics can equal its potential. That means the thief on the cross excelled Caesar on his throne! Lazarus lying among the dogs was better than Cicero among his Senators. The most ignorant Christian is, in your sight, superior to Einstein. Spiritual life is the only true badge of nobility. Help me take the message of life today to __________ and __________. Because without it, all people are only smoother or rougher specimens of the same lifeless clay, needing to be quickened because they are dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:2). Living, illuminating, lucid gospel preachinghowever uneducated in technique or unrefined in styleis better than the most eloquent sermon delivered devoid of your anointing. A living dog keeps watch better than a dead lion, so the worst spiritual preacher is much to be preferred to the elegant orator who has words but no wisdom, and sound with no spiritual power. Give me that anointing to witness to others! Quicken my prayers by your Spirit in them! Make me truly alive to all spiritual life. Let my earnestness answer to your urgency! Do not let me die in a grand performance where your presence was absent. Make me not a dead lion in the sight of a living God. Amen. TUESDAYFOCUS ON CHRISTS CROSS Chronological Bible Reading: Exodus 39-40; Matthew 23:1-20 Tuesday, February 5 Luke 23:48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned. Crowned and Crucified Lord: All who watched the cross smote their breasts, but not all for the same reason. They all feared, but not all for the same cause. The outward manifestations of your passion and death looked the same to everybody, but the differences in response were as many as the people who responded. Indefinite fear, grounded on a lack of intelligent reasoning, often alarms me. We will be entering the season of storms and tornadoes, and sometimes the sky acts like you are angry. This event happened when you closed the eye of day on those who gawked at the cross. Maybe before the next morning they had forgotten it all. No doubt the next day they were greedy for another bloody spectacle. Like a shadow, emotion often crossed our minds but does not leave a mark. Why? Because their beating of the breast was not a breaking of the heart! How often this has been the result in my own witness to others about Jesus! Many more have shed tears than have been saved. Many more wiped away tears than had sins wiped away. A handkerchief dried their emotions. They felt sorry they oppressed the innocent. But all they saw in you Lord, was maltreated virtue, suffering manhood, and honor disrespected by injustice. In the moral and spiritual result of their regret there was no redemptive value. Others among the crowd exhibited emotion based on thoughtful reflection. They saw how they shared in the murder of your innocent Son, so later they got saved. Help me look beyond your sufferings to your sacrifice for me, because Mark 15:39 Truly this man was the Son of God. FRIDAY CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY Chronological Bible Reading: Leviticus 7-9; Matthew 24:26-51 Friday, February 8 1 John 3:21-22 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Lord, We Lift Up Our Cry! Childlike confidence makes us want to pray like nothing else can. We do not need guilt-manipulation, programs, methods or lists. Childlikeness causes us to pray for great things we would never ask for had you not taught us this confidence and given us childlike faith. It also prompts us to pray for little things so we can see you providentially in all the details. Sometimes it requires more faith on our part to pray for a small item than a big one. We ask you today for all the little things we need to be able to glorify your name. Father, what is very important to your children is very small to you. Yet, because God was in Christ, you measure things not from your point of view but from ours. You hear us crying bitterly. The cause may only be a splinter. And while you do not send a surgeon to extract it, you do view us with pity, act toward us in mercy, and give us grace to endure. For this we give you thanks. Psa. 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. Our eyes often brim with tears, but we never experience a pain too small for you to care about, because you desire this involvement in our lives. You count the stars and call them by name, but you also bind up our wounds and heal our broken hearts. For this we give you praise. Help us put our confidence totally in you, for then you will take your great things and our little ones, and weave them together to work your will. Amen. word. Heavenly Father and Redeemer: Like the troubled psalmist, I complain about my bondage to earthly things. Sometimes my soul cleaves to the dust from which I was made. I feel like it melts for heaviness. I cry for freedom from this invisible prison. I could dissolve-away in tears. The solid strength of my confidence is in danger of turning to liquid in the heat of my afflictions. Heaviness of heart seems like a killing thing. It threatens to turn the life I have into nothing more than an extended death. Job 3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Tears are the distillation of the heart. When I weep, my soul wants to waste-away in the erosion. I am nearly water spilt on the ground, never to be gathered up. What shall I do? Lam. 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him I must remember, it is better to be melted by depression than hardened by defiance. You strengthen me by pouring me out, and then pouring your grace in. You pour grace in through your word, and then your Spirit can certainly sustain me (I verbally confess it so the enemy can hear it!). Grace is what enables me to bear the constant stress of lasting sorrow. It repairs the decay caused by a perpetual tear-drip. It gives me the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. When depression comes I will pray, because that is the shortest distance out of discouragement. And in that prayer I plead nothing but the word of God. Amen. WEDNESDAYREVIVAL PRAYING Chronological Bible Reading: Leviticus 1-3; Matthew 23:21-39 Wednesday, February 6 2 Cor. 5:21 For he hath made [Christ] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Crucified Savior: What must my sins have deserved, for the curse of God to have fallen on Christ? Forsaken by the Father, you made him a curse because he carried my sin! I sin willfully, against light and knowledge. I sin knowingly, against love and mercy. I smite my breast as I watch Jesus willingly suffer and die. I confess I have intentionally offended. If sin itself is rebellion, then let its sight bring tears to my eyes. I have slighted the Savior in not considering the implications of the cross. You hung on the tree in unutterable groans and griefs for me. Have I ever investigated this? If I do not sense myself being forgiven much, I will not love much. I do not love much if I do not pray much. For if I do not pray, it shows I place no confidence in you. And if I have no confidence in you I will not serve you from my heart. Oh, shame upon you, my hard heart! Well should you be smitten. May God smite you now with the hammer of his Spirit, to break you to pieces. For it is only brokenness that God blesses. Oh, you stony heart! Oh, you cold, granite soul! You flinty spirit of mine! Well might the sun in darkness hide and shut his glories in, When Christ, the mighty Maker died, for man the creatures sin. And might I hide my blushing face while His dear cross appears, Dissolve my heart in thankfulness, and melt my eyes to tears. Love so amazing! So divine! Death is not the victor and evil not the master. The cross has conquered all. Sin is bound, chained and led captive. Glory! Amen. SATURDAYIN THE PSALMS Chronological Bible Reading: Leviticus 10-12; Matthew 25:1-23 Saturday, February 9 Psa. 119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING Chronological Bible Reading: Leviticus 4-6; Matthew 24:1-25 Thursday, February 7 Isa. 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

ON a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,

The emblem of suffering and shame; And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain. In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, A wondrous beauty I see, For twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died, To pardon and sanctify me. So Ill cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown. George Bennard, 1913

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

HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH

FEBRUARY 3, 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

Nursing Mothers new room available for use (room 2) Huddle Groups Signup to go to a Huddle Home-Group tonight and watch the Superbowl (or pretend to be spiritual). The big game starts at 5:30P.M. No kids SNL and no Sunday evening service, so you can attend a Home-Group Huddle for fellowship. Go get to know somebody!
TUESDAY

INSTRUCTIONS:

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

10:00A.M. Pinterest Live ladies craft circle in the gym

WEDNESDAY

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.

7:00P.M. AWANA program for kids 2yrs-6th Grade Devotional study for adults in the auditorium, Psalm 122
NEXT SUNDAY

9:00 & 10:45A.M. Life Essentials #3 Baptism: Your Bridge to Holiness, Rom. 6:1-11 Baptisms Sign up in the lobby to let us know you would like to be baptized
THURSDAY, FEB 14

6:30P.M. Ladies Support TEAM missions awareness meeting

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

MARRIAGE CONFERENCE, FEB 22-23

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

So far we have about 40 couples attending the Real Marriage Conference with Mark & Grace Driscoll in Springfield, MO on Feb. 22-23. It starts Friday night 7:00P.M. and ends Saturday morning at Noon, at James River Assembly. Registration is only $35 per person! Go to this link to register and find nearby hotels and join us! http://www.gotothehub.com/liveevents/real-marriage/real-marriage2013-springfield-mo/ Or http://goo.gl/8GNEb

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