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NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER- DAY 2 OF 5 DAYS OF PRAYER

Monday, May 4th, 2015

FIVE DAYS OF PRAYER (SUNDAY MAY 3- THURSDAY MAY 7, 2015)

“and I said, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, for our iniquities have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown even to the heavens”. Ezra 9:6
Shame is at a premium in this swiftly fading post-modern world. This is absolutely no sense of remorse, regret or urgency to seek reconciliation with the Truth from those in power all the way up to those in the church. It is no wonder, therefore, that a church prayer service/meeting is a rarity and even more rare, is the call to repentance,The greatest Scribe named in the Bible was Ezra.
 
Because his full occupation was transcribing the Word of God, Ezra was a man consumed by the knowledge of the Holy and the powerful Heartbeat of God because of His given word. Because of his complete commitment to God, he knew the Scriptures more than any priest or rabbi.

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FROM STUMBLING BLOCK TO A STEPPING STONE, PART 1

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Then let us no more criticize and blame and pass judgment on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother….Romans 14:13 AMP

Can you really turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone?

This next verse in our series mentions BOTH A Stumbling Block and A Hindrance. We all know what a stumbling block is – well, it’s something we trip over and sometimes, in embarassment, almost fall over! The next word, Hindrance, is particularly important as the ORIGINAL word for it is “Scandalon”. If this looks familiar – it is!

The word Scandal comes from it! What the Apostle sent by Christ is relaying is, in this life, people are going to try to trip us up! Literally, morally, spiritually and otherwise, they are going to try to bring us down! An immature believer is just that – immature. At some point in our Journey with Jesus, we were all immature.

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