Discipleship Point and Prayer
FRIDAY'S BIT OF
DISCIPLESHIP
The biblical writers call us to humility in our relationships with leaders... Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you. (Hebrews 13:17)... To relate to leaders with humility is showing respect, imitating the good and doing what the leaders are asking you to do (as long, of course, as it is not in conflict with the will of God as you understand it).
pp. 114-115, The Prideful Soul’s Guide to Humility, Fontenot/Jones
Humility Prayer
Lord Jesus, you submitted to parental authority, to governmental authority, even to religious authority when appropriate. Let me bring joy for the leaders in my life through God-honoring obedience rather than becoming a burden. In Jesus’ name I pray and live. Amen.
Discipleship Point about Walking in Obedience
How is a disciple transformed into the likeness of Christ? Sinful behavior is the product of practiced patterns that become habits which sink their roots deep in us. Growing to Christlikeness involves a process of replacing old habits with God pleasing ones.
~ Discipleship Essentials, Ogden, p. 206
Discipleship Prayer
Father God, I love the mental image of walking in obedience and growing to more Christ-like in my behavior and interactions with people. Help me break old habits and replace them with godly ones. In Jesus I pray. Amen.
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Family Retreat: The Family Prayer Box
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Family retreats always included a combination of faith, fellowship and fun. We often built in a take-home craft.
Remember the cross and candles, family shields, plates, fisher-of-men dishes, etc.? One year we built family PRAYER BOXES. Similar to Hope’s prayer boxes that go home with a family each week, we wanted to encourage prayer without our own families.
The vonWerders still have ours along with many other retreat memorabilia. We could stand to open it up and use its contents more often.
Couldn’t we all use some more prayer in our lives? Retreat times served as a great way to give families time away from the routine – together. I really miss this part of Hope’s church life. There was so much to celebrate. I don’t even have space to share the Q-tip battles, Water balloon wars, Scavenger hunts, potato gun fun, alligators and scorpions (really!), outdoor worship, college-kid childcare, canoeing and campfires.
Maybe some day again, Lord willing…