This Week
Scripture Memory
Pray for the Church
Praise God for the gift of His Word and for revealing Himself through the Scriptures. Pray for Him to help develop within us a love for the Bible and to grow our knowledge of Him from the Word. Ask God to grant us insight and understanding as we think on what we read in the Bible. Pray for God to use His Word to transform us more and more into the image of His Son.
Pray for the City
This week we are praying for Sav-a-Life Shelby, a pregnancy resource ministry whose mission is to develop a culture of life in Shelby County and to offer the hope of the gospel. By providing free, confidential services in a compassionate and loving environment to women, men, and families facing an unplanned pregnancy, Sav-A-Life Shelby hopes to see clients choose life for themselves and for their unborn child. We are also praying for Westwood Baptist Church, Alabaster and Pastor Kenneth Bruce.
DAY 1: Pray for each client seeking help from the Pregnancy Resource Center in Pelham to encounter Jesus and be transformed by the gospel.
DAY 2: Pray for more and more women and men to choose life for their unborn child and for abortion to become undesirable and unnecessary in Shelby County.
DAY 3: Pray for the Sav-A-Life Shelby staff and leadership to seek God’s will and yield to His plans for this ministry.
DAY 4: Pray for the “Earn While You Learn” classes to be fruitful and grow to reach and educate more members of the community.
DAY 5: Pray for the board and volunteers who support this ministry to bear much fruit in their kingdom labor as they abide in Christ.
DAY 6: Pray for each avenue of ministry that God has entrusted to Sav-A-Life Shelby to further their mission to share the hope of Christ in Shelby County.
Pray for the World
This week we are praying for our partner Ramesh Landge and the Cooperative Outreach of India (COI) ministries. COI has been a partner for a number of years and hosts Short-Term teams. COI focuses on training pastors for church planting, engaging unreached peoples through community projects, and serving the poor through multiple ministries. Join us as we pray for Ramesh and his staff at COI.
DAY 1: Praise God for His faithfulness to COI and for how He has brought joy and hope to their staff and those they are ministering to in northern India.
DAY 2: Pray for the growing work of the Lord in various areas of northern India. Pray for COI as they work to strengthen believers in different communities and for the church to continue to grow as a result of new disciples being made.
DAY 3: Persecution is a reality in the area where many of COI’s church planters work. Please pray for God to protect their team and to use even the persecution they experience to drive the gospel forward. Pray for these team members to be strengthened in their faith as God provides for them in their suffering.
DAY 4: Pray for Ramesh, his wife, Gloria, and their children and grandchildren. Pray for God to give grace to their family and unify them together for ministry. Pray for their family to be a testimony to the surrounding community of their faith in Christ and God’s work in their lives.
DAY 5: Pray for God to get great glory from the work He is accomplishing through COI. Pray for God to call men and women to Himself and continue to use COI to make the gospel known and establish His church among unreached people groups throughout northern India.
DAY 6: Pray for Ramesh as he leads COI. Pray for God to give him wisdom to shepherd his team and to have clarity of vision for the work of COI.
Worship
Songs
Sunday Setlist
Baptisms
The Lion and the Lamb
Verse 1
He's coming on the clouds
Kings and kingdoms will bow down
And every chain will break
As broken hearts declare His praise
For who can stop the Lord almighty
Chorus
Our God is the Lion
The Lion of Judah
He's roaring with power
And fighting our battles
And every knee will bow before Him
Our God is the Lamb
The Lamb that was slain
For the sin of the world
His blood breaks the chains
And every knee will bow before the Lion and the Lamb
Oh every knee will bow before the Lion and the Lamb
Verse 2
So open up the gates
Make way before the King of kings
Our God who comes to save
Is here to set the captives free
For who can stop the Lord almighty
Bridge
Who can stop the Lord almighty
Who can stop the Lord (almighty)
In Tenderness
Verse 1
In tenderness He sought me
So weak and sick with sin
And on his shoulder brought me
Into his flock again
While angels in his presence sang
Until the courts of heaven rang
CHORUS 1
Oh the love that sought me
Oh the love the bought me
Wondrous grace that brought me home to God
Verse 2
He called this needy sinner
He spoke His words of life
He whispered to assure me
I found thee, thou art mine
I never heard a sweeter voice
It made my aching heart rejoice
(CHORUS 1)
Verse 3
His grace I'll daily ponder
And tell of his great love
Yet deeper, brighter, purer
I'll know these things above
It seems as if eternal days
Are far too short to sing his praise
CHORUS 2
Oh the love that sought me
Oh the blood that bought me
Oh the love that sought me
Oh the blood that bought me
Wondrous grace that brought me home to God
Wondrous grace that brought me home to God
This I Believe (The Creed)
Verse 1
Our Father everlasting
The all creating One
God Almighty
Through Your Holy Spirit
Conceiving Christ the Son
Jesus our Saviour
Chorus
I believe in God our Father
I believe in Christ the Son
I believe in the Holy Spirit
Our God is three in One
I believe in the resurrection
That we will rise again
For I believe in the Name of Jesus
Verse 2
Our judge and our defender
Suffered and crucified
Forgiveness is in You
Descended into darkness
You rose in glorious life
Forever seated high
Bridge
I believe in You
I believe You rose again
I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord
O Lord My Rock and My Redeemer
Verse 1
O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer
Greatest treasure of my longing soul
My God like You there is no other
True delight is found in You alone
Your grace a well too deep to fathom
Your love exceeds the heavens' reach
Your truth a fount of perfect wisdom
My highest good and my unending need
Verse 2
O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer
Strong defender of my weary heart
My sword to fight the cruel deceiver
And my shield against his hateful darts
My song when enemies surround me
My hope when tides of sorrow rise
My joy when trials are abounding
Your faithfulness my refuge in the night
Verse 3
O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer
Gracious Savior of my ruined life
My guilt and cross laid on Your shoulders
In my place You suffered bled and died
You rose the grave and death are conquered
You broke my bonds of sin and shame
O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer
May all my days bring glory to Your Name
Jesus Firm Foundation
Verse 1
How firm a foundation you saints of the Lord
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word
What more can He say than to you He has said
To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled
Fear not He is with us O be not dismayed
For He is our God our Sustainer and Strength
He'll be our Defender and cause us to stand
Upheld by His merciful almighty hand
Chorus
How firm our foundation
How sure our salvation
And we will not be shaken
Jesus firm foundation
Verse 2
The soul that is trusting in Jesus as Lord
Will press on enduring the darkest of storm
And though even hell should endeavor to shake
He'll never no never no never forsake
He'll never no never no never forsake
Bridge
Age to age He stands faithful to the end
All may fade away but He will remain
He will remain
