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MONDAYEVANGELISTIC PRAYER
Chronological Bible Reading: Isaiah 43-45; 1 Timothy 1
Monday, October 12

TUESDAYFOCUS ON CHRISTS MIRACLES

Chronological Bible Reading: Isaiah 46-48; 1 Timothy 2
Tuesday, October 13

Heb. 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain
mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Luke 6:10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch
forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

Supreme God and Loving Father:

I so often feel like my mouth is not able to express my heart in prayer. Let
that same sense of inadequacy draw me to the throne of grace with even greater
boldness. O that my words could more nearly tell the longing of my soul for the
lost, but if not, I do have an assistant in this great work of prayer.
Rom. 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we
should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered.
Give me a burning desire and single heartedness to know you in prayer, and
for _______ and _______ to know you through my presentation of the gospel.
Rom. 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed
from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
I cannot obey perfectly, but I can obey from the heart! Help me be
obedient at every prompting of your Spirit to witness and testify of Jesus.
Mat. 5:6,8 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they
shall be filled. 8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Make me hunger and thirst for you in inner prayer with a sincere (pure)
heart. And make those I witness to hunger and thirst to have forgiveness of sins!
Psa. 119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
Where my longings are is where I am at in the sight of God. Make me
sincere in my desire for you and in my earnestness in prayer for others. Then will
I be perfect, upright and undefiled. Give me souls as our church grows! Make me your
tool to witness to many. Make it so this week, Lord Jesus, for your sake. Amen.

Lord and Master:

I cannot explain it, but I know you often ask me to stretch first, and then
give me the strength afterward. Break my hard heart today so I can lay hold on
your word this way. Dissolve this stubborn steel and help me trust you and obey,
because you always give the power to do what you command to be done.
If I am called to believe, and I have to stand with tears in my eyes and say,
I cannot understand, and cannot believe, still you are able to help thou mine
unbelief (Mark 9:24). Speak through your servants who preach to me. Speak
through your word as I read. Speak directly by your Spirit to my conscience. You
are the Son of God, and I desire opportunities to say to you, Give me, Lord, the
faith you ask of me. Give me, dear Lord, the trust you demand.
What a way you have of doing your workfirst to give the command,
then to help the heart turn the command into a prayer, and then to answer
that prayer by a promise. You say,
Ezek. 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
That is clearly a command, but who can do it? So David prays:
Psa. 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Then later in Ezekiel you give the promise:
Ezek. 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you:
First you command, then set me to praying for the blessing, and then you
answer by a promise. Help me learn this holy protocol of command/prayer
/and promise-claimed much better, for I know you desire to give more! Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING

Chronological Bible Reading: Isaiah 52-54; 1 Timothy 4
Thursday, October 15
Gen. 35:14-15 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a
pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. And Jacob called
the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.

O FOR a closer walk with God, a calm and heavenly frame,

A light to shine upon the road that leads me to the Lamb!
Where is the blessedness I knew, when first I saw the Lord?
Where is the soul refreshing view of Jesus and His Word?
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void the world can never fill.
Return, O holy Dove, return, sweet messenger of rest!
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn and drove Thee from my breast.
The dearest idol I have known, whateer that idol be
Help me to tear it from Thy throne, and worship only Thee.
So shall my walk be close with God, calm and serene my frame;
So purer light shall mark the road that leads me to the Lamb.
William Cowper, 1771

FRIDAY CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY

Chronological Bible Reading: Isaiah 55-57; 1 Timothy 5
Friday, October 16
Rev 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders
fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which
are the prayers of saints.
Holy God Our Creator:
The prayers you accept are not the chanting of monks, the litanies of
priests, or the devout lighting of candlesthey have to be the petitions of living
saints. The sweetness of the incense is found in our lives fulfilling your Eternal
Purpose. The acceptance does not come unless it is our own hearts praying. Make
this moment so, Lord. Strike the spark to the incense now!
We are your saints. You have given us a status, set apart by the power of
your Spirit. You purified our nature with divine life. We have been washed in the
precious blood of Jesus, and by it sanctified unto you. When you filled us with
your Spirit you set us apart to worship. We love you. We praise you. We bow
down before you with solemn awe, lifting our souls in communion with you.
Help us reach the lost and left-behind among us. Our thoughts, desires,
longings, confessions, pleadings, and praises are sweetness to your nostrils. Make
theirs so, for it is perfume to your heart, delight to your mind, and music to your
ears. In no other way can a spiritual God be worshiped (John 4:24).
In our prayers, what is sweet to you is not the words we use, but the secret
qualities comparable to the essence and aroma of sweet spices in the Old
Testament (vials of odours). The burning of the coals draws-out the spiritual
essence, and latent sweetness then wafts itself around until everyone confesses its
power. Give us that spiritual force in our praying. You perceive the faith or
absence of it as we pray. May our prayers be pleasing to you all this week, for we
ask it in our heavenly mediator Jesus name. Amen.

WEDNESDAYREVIVAL PRAYING
Chronological Bible Reading: Isaiah 49-51; 1 Timothy 3
Wednesday, October 14
Ezra 9:6 And said, 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.
Lord, My Father:
You O Lord are in heaven, but I am on earth. My being is but yesterday
and my foundation is in the dust. It is only in you I live and move and have my
being. If you withhold your breath, then I die. This is my prayer of confession.
I mourn before you Lord, because of my pride and vanity of mind, the
violence of my passions, my earthly-mindedness and love of this world, my
sensuality and indulgence of the flesh, my carnal security and ungratefulness in
plenteous mercies, my fretfulness and impatience, and my sinful defection in time
of trouble. I confess my neglect of duty and lack of love to God, my unbelief and
hardness of heart, my slothfulness and decay in spirituality, the dishonor I have
brought to your name, and all my missteps toward my fellow creatures.
How often have they been repeatedboth before I knew God 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 you and plead for merciful
forgiveness, while trusting in the merits of Jesus Christ my Lord. Make him more
and more to me. Make him my all. Make him completely my sufficiency. Amen.
SATURDAYIN THE PSALMS
Chronological Bible Reading: Isaiah 58-60; 1 Timothy 6
Saturday, October 17
Psa. 142:1 Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried
unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Heavenly Lord and Holy Father:
I have to pray when I am in the cave. If David had prayed half as much in
the palace as he did in the cave, he would not have fallen to temptation! If he had
been looking up to heaven instead of staring down at Bathsheba, if his heart had
been in communion with you (as I need mine to be this whole weekend), then he
would not have stained his character, shamed your name, and made his family
suffer. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (Matt. 6:13).
You are not the God of my mountaintops only, but also of my valleys. You
heard Jonah when he was in the belly of despair. Wherever I work I can pray.
Whatever my circumstances I can pray. There is no place I can be banished
where you will not hear, and where you are not as near as my supplications. There
is no time when your throne is not accessible, because I am your child.
My caves should hear my best prayers. Lord, make me shine brightest in the
dark! I pray well when I am driven by desperate dependence to pray.
David was anointed to be king, but the way to the throne was through
affliction and the cave of Adullam. If thrown-down this week, let me see it as a
platform to a higher spiritual life. You make me hungry before you feed me; I am
hungry for you now. I am also, so much the schemer like Jacob. Touch my
hollow, natural strength, to make me a prince with you! Put me out of joint so I
will be in place for your mercies! Then I will not regret going by the way of the
cave, because here is where you teach me to pray.
Whether in a cave or on a throne, make me bless you by glorifying you with
my life. Do it for Jesus sake and merit. Amen.

Focus Verse (for memorization & meditation)Prayer Diary link available online at http://www.hbcbluesprings.org/prayer-diary/

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HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH

OCTOBER 11, 2015

HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH

HOW TO BUILD A BALANCED LIFE

THIS WEEKS EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

PRAYER DIARY DAILY ORDERS

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.

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.
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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.

QUALITY CHRISTIANITY INVOLVES THREE THINGS

! 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)

TODAY
Welcome to our visitors! Please take connection cards from the back of the
pew in front of you, fill out the visitor portion, and put it in the offering plate.
You are our guest, and wed like to know you're here!
Discipleship 2 at 9:00A.M. in room 5
Ministerio Hispao La Cosecha 10:45A.M. en el saln 6. Servicio en Ingls
traducido en Espaol 9:00A.M.
Sunday Night Service 5:30P.M. in the gym. Revelation 17!
HBC Junior Choir Christmas program rehearsals for kids K-Grade 6, 5:30P.M.

" INTERCEDE WITH GOD " INSTRUCT SAINTS

" PROMPT PETITIONS " KICKSTART DEVOTION
INSTRUCTIONS:

TUESDAY
MoMs Group 9:30A.M. The Proverbs 31 Guide for Stressed Out, Far-From-Perfect
Moms. facebook.com/groups/harvestmomsgroup/
NO Proverbs & Prayer this week. The pastors will be at a sisterchurch/cousin-church/area pastors luncheon instead.
S.Y.S. Womens Bible Study 7:00P.M. Sharpen Your Sword with Priscilla
Shirer on Discerning the Voice of God. Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesday nights AND 2nd &
4th Fridays mornings.

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.

WEDNESDAY 7:00-8:15P.M.
AdultsMidweek Bible Study & Prayer Service in the sanctuary
AWANAApproved Workmen Are Not Ashamed! Our AWANA Bible club
for kids 2 yrs-Grade 6 starts

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.

This daily Prayer Diary will prompt you on a wide range of 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.

THURSDAYS 7:00P.M.
Discipulado Ministerio Hispao Spanish Ministry Discipleship starts
FRIDAY
S.Y.S. Womens Bible Study 9:00A.M. Sharpen Your Sword with Priscilla
Shirer on Discerning the Voice of God. Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesday nights AND 2nd &
4th Friday mornings.
Conley Night 6:30P.M for the HBC SHINE Class (Jr. High)
NEXT SUNDAY
ANGEL TREE Bake Sale in room 5 - Oct 18 & 25 Bring baked goods to be
sold and while your there buy a little something yummy. All money collected
will be used for purchasing gifts for Angel Tree Children
Brockmeyer Prayer Team Meeting 4:30P.M. in room 6

MINISTRY, SERVICE & FELLOWSHIP

FALL EVENTS
OCT 26HBC Choir Practice begins
OCT 31 Trunk or Treat, Saturday 1:00-4:00P.M. Sign up to help with this
outreach in the lobby!

Alan

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

Dont make excuses; make a difference!

Prayer Diary link available online at http://www.hbcbluesprings.org/prayer-diary/

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Prayer Diary link available online at http://www.hbcbluesprings.org/prayer-diary/