Lord, Hear Our Prayers! (The Week of May 25, 2020)

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and 

unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3)

“Kyrie Eleison (Lord, Have Mercy)”, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Westminster Choir

Hi Family!!! 

I almost skipped taking the next steps this week… but God reminds me this morning, “Wake up!” Thanks be to God! Even though this week’s step for us might be a little slower than other weeks, definitely, we will never stop our steps to the higher ground. However, we will do it humbly before God. So, I would like to invite you to join me this week as a church together. If you took some steps already, wait for me! So here they are!

-Maditate on a few words, from John 17:3, “Eternal Life” each day this week.
-Memorize 1 Peter 5:8, “Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring Lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour” today.
-Sing with Psalm 68 taking just 5-10 minutes each day this week.
-Give thanks to God for those who shared the gifts of life for others this week.
-Pray for the pure heart in the leadership of our country this week.
-Plant the seed of faith in my vegetable garden this week.
-Ask God to help me to see my true identity in His Kingdom this week.

For online worship service, there is a little change and addition. We will continually put the recordings of our worship and other events through YouTube, Facebook and Tweeter; however, we will also use Zoom for those who do not have internet access. It means we will not use our current telephone access numbers that we have shared through our newsletter any longer. But we will use the new telephone number and access code through Zoom. If you’d like, you can choose to join us through ZOOM on Sunday 9:20 a.m. for worship.

Also, don’t forget to join our Dive-In Gathering this coming Sunday @ 9:30 a.m. at the Markesan UMC parking lot. The Recorded Service will be online as usual, but during our Drive-In Gathering, we will also celebrate the Holy Communion. Please plan to come a little earlier so that we can start our short program right at 9:30 a.m.  

For this week, lots of things happened around us, shocking us and saddened us. It means we need to pray more for one another to seek God and his presence as we are mad at the human sinfulness. Also we noticed, in our nation, we are divided by the political views on wearing masks in public. Whether we choose to wear it or not, and whether we keep social distance or not in public, and whether we like it or not, we do this because we care for one another.

So before we do choose any, we will remember what Jesus commanded us to do, giving his life for others.

Now we have our prayer list updated for this week. Let us continue to call upon the name of the Lord as we take next steps together… disciplining ourselves, keeping alert!

Be clean and keep your distance from those unseen enemies!!

pk

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Markesan & Princeton Emmanuel Prayer List

(The Week of May 25, 2020)

This week’s Updates – Betty K’s Cataract surgery this week; Isabel B’s moving to NC, her daughter's house in June; Rick and his family for God’s comfort; Ted and Margaret’s moving this week; Terri, recovering from pacemaker putting in.