Prayer Meeting

November 10, 2019

1 Thes. 1:2-9; 5:14

Prayer is not a simple thing in one sense; it may be very difficult. Prayer is sometimes an excuse for not thinking, an excuse for avoiding a problem or a situation. Have we not all known something of this in our personal experience? We have often been in difficulty and we have prayed to God to deliver us, but in the meantime we have not put something right in our lives as we should have done. Instead of facing the trouble and doing what we knew we should be doing, we have prayed. I suggest that at a point like that, our duty is not to pray but to face the truth, to face the doctrine and to apply it. Then we are entitled to pray, and not until then. – Martyn Lloyd Jones

Thanksgiving to God (1 Thes. 1:2) 

Corporate Confession/Repentance

The Ministry of Prayer (1 Thes. 1:2-3, 5:18) 

• 11% of Members at Corporate Prayer in October
  • Update: 22% at this Prayer Meeting!
• Admonish the Idle
• Encourage the Faint-hearted 
• Help the Weak
• With Patience

The Ministry of God’s Word (1 Thes. 1:5) 

• Preaching | Community Groups | Children’s Ministry | Nursery | TYG | Counseling | Apologetics | Discipleship | etc.
• Admonish the Idle
• Encourage the Faint-hearted
• Help the Weak
• With Patience

The Repentance, Faith and Fellowship of Believers (1 Thes. 6-7, 9) 

• Continued growth in turning from sin, and becoming imitators of Christ, and those who trust in Him (Phil. 2:12-13)
• Admonish the Idle
• Encourage the Faint-hearted
• Help the Weak
• With Patience

The Ministry of Evangelism (1 Thes. 1:8-10) 

• 7% of Members in Evangelism Events in October
• Admonish the Idle
• Encourage the Faint-Hearted
• Help the Weak
• With Patience
• City Bible Missionary Family
• Alan and Bev Ginn (India, China)
• Gus and Melissa Pidal (Leon, Spain)
• Alberto and Kathy Solano (Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Sophia Tat (Malawi, Africa)
• CBC Members (Sacramento, CA)
• Pray for courage and boldness to preach the Gospel (Eph. 6:19-20)
• Pray for the work of the Spirit in the hearts of non-believers that they may be saved!