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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 


Inward; We check our hearts and habits, modeling our lives after Christ.

Are there things in our lives – either things we have done or things we have left undone – that have prevented us from experiencing God’s love this week?

Where in our lives do we need God’s mercy, grace or forgiveness? 

Take a moment to reflect, then simply receive and trust in His grace.

The Sieve: Jesus on the Mount

Clarify

Continue

Come back

Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.  Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.”  “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied.

“A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.  “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

John 16: 29-33

Jesus prayed for his disciples, “(Father) I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.

They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.”

John 17:6-19 NIV

Pupils

Agents

Witnesses

Monuments

If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

1 John 5:9-13

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:1-5

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.  The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.  We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us.

1 John: 1-3

ACTION STEP

And then all that has divided us will merge

And then compassion will be wedded to power

And then softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind

And then both men and women will be gentle

And then both women and men will be strong

And then no person will be subject to another’s will

And then all will be rich and free and varied

And then the greed of some will give way to the needs of many

And then all will share equally in the Earth’s abundance

And then all will care for the sick and the weak and the old

And then all will nourish the young

And then all will cherish life’s creatures

And then everywhere will be called Eden once again

-Judy Chicago

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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