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  • Offering Prayer

    Faithful Father, thank you that you give the gift of abundant, eternal life. You have said that you are a Good Father who gives us good gifts. Your generosity overflows to us. Everything we have is a gift from you. As we bring our offerings to you, we give back to you from the abundant blessings you have given us. May our gifts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our God. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, and power and strength, be unto you our God forever and ever. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.

    Prayer of Thanksgiving

    Complete this sentence;

    I’m grateful to God for ______

    If you feel comfortable,

    share out loud what words filled in the blank.

    Prayer for Supplication

    Here, we ask God for His divine help to meet our needs as well as the needs of those in our families, friends, and communities locally and globally.

    If you feel comfortable, share your request out loud

    It can be as simple as a single word or a name.

    Response; “Lord, hear our prayer."

    Prayer of Confession

    Most merciful God, we confess the heartbreak, worry, and sorrow we have caused by our thoughts, words, and deeds, through what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent, For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more like You.

    Through Jesus Christ, the Light of the World,

    Amen

  • Announcements;

    District Assembly; June 1st Saturday

    Murrieta Gateway Church of the Nazarene

    Pray for Baylee (Serving in Thailand)

     Prayer requests: 

    - Growth for the church and to continue to establish the youth 

     - That the English center will continue to grow and flourish

     - Wisdom and discernment 

     - For the students at the school who come to the English club. 

    Lasting Change Haiti

    Pray for Absolu and his leadership team as they serve.

    Pray for the witness of love as they build Lucienne a home.

    Pray for continued harvest from the beans that were planted. Pray for Absolu and his leadership team as they navigate food shortages and threats from gangs who have taken control of large parts of Haiti.

  • Weekly Bible Study Guide and Q’s

    REFLECTION QUESTIONS

    1. How do you tend to recognize God's presence in your day?
How do you respond to God's presence?

    2. How does the presence of the fruit of the Spirit in your life reveal God's presence and his will?

    3. What has God been doing in your life in the past six months?
What themes are emerging, and how will you attend to them?

 

Sermon Notes;

We typically preach through the LECTIONARY READINGS — To gain further reading click here… http://lectionarypage.net 


Lectio Divina Reading

Colossians 3

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

“Grassroots Movement”

How do we make lasting change in our world?

Acts 8:26-40

Acts 8:26-40

Philip and the Ethiopian

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:

“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
    and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.

In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
    Who can speak of his descendants?
    For his life was taken from the earth.”

The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

John 15:4-5

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.  “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

Psalm 22

My soul shall live for him;

my descendants shall serve him; *

they shall be known as the Lord's for ever.

ACTION STEP

The invitation of Jesus

1. Notice

2. Do something


Psalm 22; My soul shall live for him



Further study on the problem of evil; https://youtu.be/8oV-HYyefM0?si=vfgD7gy_du4XcTjR

Number one task of a Christ follower; Stay in that rhythm of receiving nourishment. A tree doesn’t work to receive but we choose what soil and if it’s near water source or in the care of a constant gardener.


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