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Welcome
“Faithful God, King of kings, Lord of lords, we worship You and give You all the glory. You are the amazing Saviour of the world, Holy and Majestic, Amen!”
Stella
Worship
Word
Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3
If ever we need to hear from the Lord, it is today. As a nation we are increasingly becoming “numbed” to the Lord’s ways. Take abortion, it is regulated by the Abortion Act 1967, and since then, 10 million abortions have taken place. I didn’t’ have a conviction about this until I’d been a Christian some 10 years or more, when, one day, upon reading Psalm 139, which I had read many times previously, I came to realise that this was wrong in God’s sight,
For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Ps. 139:13-14
Now certain M.P’s are pushing for abortion up to birth, which is yet another horrendous moving away from the ways of God. What to do? There are many things to do, but I will just mention two here.
- Keep asking the Lord to show us the great things He is going to do once more in this nation. Every revival has taken place when the nation is in a spiritual darkness and lost in sin.
- Keep on asking God to have mercy upon us. Mercy is not only feeling sympathy and pity with the misery of another, but doing something about it.
The two blind men called out to Jesus, “Have mercy on us …” (Matt. 9:27) and He did, to the extent that He healed them of their blindness. We are spiritually blind as a nation which results in a lot of misery, and so we must call out to God, “Have mercy on us!”
Habakkuk was deeply grieved by his people’s sins but when God revealed to him how He was going to bring judgment on them, Habakkuk started to pray for the Lorded to renew His good deeds of old and “in wrath remember mercy” (Hab. 3:2). Let that be our prayer for this nation, “in wrath remember mercy; forgive us and heal us; pour out Your Spirit upon us and save us in and through Your Son Jesus Christ.” Amen
Verse of the week
Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Ps. 85:10
Quote of the week
“God’s mercy means God’s goodness to those in misery and distress.”
Wayne Grudem
Let’s Pray
Heavenly Father, we are saddened when we think of this nation for it once was so blessed by You, even sending missionaries to spread the Good-News of Jesus Christ to the uttermost parts of the world. Now Lord, have mercy on us, for we have gone far away from You. Many Church buildings have closed down. Others are quite empty and more people go shopping and to football matches on a Sunday morning than gather to worship You. Have mercy on us Lord and pour out Your Spirit upon us once more in Jesus Christ and for Your glory, Amen.