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Praise God for the gift of His grace in so many areas of our lives. Ask God to help us maximize every opportunity for gospel impact He gives us regardless of where we are. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide us in the use of our homes to host and influence those in need of the gospel. Pray we will all see our vocations as means through which we can engage in gospel ministry and mission. Ask God to give each of us partners to join us in gospel ministry that we might support one another and spur one another on. Thank God for graciously empowering us for gospel witness in each and every context in which we find ourselves.

This week we are praying for Christian Marriages in Crisis (CMIC), a ministry led by Brook Hills members Paul and Suzi Talley working to bring healing, restoration, and healthy communication to Christian couples in crisis through couple-to-couple counseling, a community of encouragers, and workshops for wives, husbands, and couples. We are also praying for Crosspoint Church, Trussville and Pastor Ryan Whitley.

Day 1: Pray for couples seeking counsel through CMIC to come with repentant hearts and an earnest desire for marital healing. Pray they would walk away with a clear, biblical picture of marriage and that the Holy Spirit would empower them to love each other as Christ loves the Church.

Day 2: CMIC receives calls each week from couples in crisis. Pray for CMIC as they work to minister to each couple according to their unique needs, and for the new couples that have just begun counseling.

Day 3: Pray for biblical wisdom for Paul and Suzi Talley as they minister to couples that have come through crisis and are now learning to honor God and each other in their marriage.

Day 4: Pray as CMIC seeks financial support through their annual golf tournament on October 31st. Pray for a great turnout and for new relationships with other churches and business men and women who will help support this ministry.

Day 5: Pray for Paul and Suzi’s own marriage and family. Pray for them as they minister to their aging parents, children, and grandchild, while keeping their focus on the Lord. Pray also for their physical well being as they face challenges with diabetes (Paul), arthritis, and asthma (Suzi).

Day 6: Pray for Christian marriages in our local church, our city, and our world. Pray for husbands and wives to live according to God’s plan and purpose, and that together they would display the glorious relationship between Christ and His Bride, the Church.

This week we are praying for our members who are in the Global Cities Initiative process. The Global Cities Initiative is a pilot partnerships between local churches and the IMB to mobilize Christians to use their marketable skills to join church planting teams in five major world cities.  The goal is to integrate students, professionals, and retirees into the work of making disciples and multiplying churches among unreached people groups in these cities. For more information visit brookhills.org/globalcities.

Day 1: There are over 25 Brook Hills members who are in the process of being sent through the Global Cities Initiative with countless more who are interested. Praise God for preparing the hearts of his people for his purposes.

Day 2: This past weekend we hosted 28 people for a Global Cities Training, a requirement to be sent through this process. Pray for those men and women who attended. Pray for God to continue to use what they learned to confirm their path to be sent in this way.

Day 3: Pray for God to continue to call out many more from Brook Hills and other churches around the world to participate in getting jobs, studying, and retiring in these strategic cities for the glory of God.

Day 4: Pray for each of the five strategic cities and the city leaders who are casting vision and leading this effort. Pray for God to receive glory in this process and open up many opportunities for believers to live, work, and flourish so they can share the gospel and many can know Christ.

Day 5: Pray for God to continue to give wisdom to our leadership here on the Brook Hills Global Team as they lead and guide our faith family in this direction. Pray for grace as they work diligently to mobilize and equip God’s people for this task.

Day 6: The reality is this initiative is hard. There are very few believers in these cities among unreached people groups and this pioneering work has never been done before. Pray for God to remind us He is working all of this for His glory and our good and that in the end His ways are perfect and He will accomplish this mission.