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From the District Superintendent ...THE GREATER WORK
A favorite devotional writer for many believers is Oswald Chambers. His devotional insights have touched millions. Among the many great lines he has written, one of my favorites is a powerful insight about prayer: Prayer does not equip us for the greater work, it is the greater work. His reminder is especially true today. If we are to be a holy and effective people for God and the kingdom, we must be a people of desperate prayer. We must not be satisfied with a cursory or perfunctory prayer as we head off to work each morning, but must daily encounter God at the very depths of our souls. How I long for every Michigan Nazarene to have such a relationship with God that he or she weeps in brokenness over the people around him or her who do not know Jesus.
These are very busy days for all of us. Planning, meetings and special events are our common lot. Some of us are so busy that we seem to be meeting ourselves coming and going. We can be so busy even doing good things for God that we forget to spend time with Him, to be silent before him, to listen for His still small voice. We forget to pray for those in great need of Him who live in our homes, our friends next door or coworkers in the office across the hall. May God help us to not fall into that trap of neglect but may we be, more than ever, a people of desperate prayer.
To help, you will find a link titled “Forty Days of Prayer.” It is a link to a forty day prayer guide for our family camp meeting that will take place July 9-15 at Indian Lake. The forty days begin on May 31 and end the day our regular camp meeting services begin, July 9. One of our camp meeting evangelists, Dr. Carolyn Johnson, put the guide together for us to use and to intercede daily for our workers, those who will attend and that even details like the sound system and food services will function perfectly. Won’t you join me during these forty days and intercede for camp meeting? Who knows what God might do just because you were faithful to do “the greater work.” Why don’t you click on the link now?
Yours and His,
Dr. John Seaman
District Superintendent
MICHIGAN DISTRICT CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Kings Pointe Business Park
15180 S. Wright Road
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
"The Michigan District exists to assist and encourage our local churches in their mission of making Christ-like disciples."
Romans 14:23 (NIV)
But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
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