Hi and welcome to the Via Zion Sermon podcast.
We are a local church based here in Chennai, India.
We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will
encourage, inspire and instill fresh faith in you.
We have started a series called The Kingdom Life based on the
life and teachings of Jesus from the Gospel According to Mark.
We look at how we must live our lives on this earth as followers
of Jesus in a way that is countercultural yet powerfully
impactful. As you listen in, our hope is
that you will be motivated to live, love, lead, and serve just
like Jesus. How?
Many of you have been enjoying the series Kingdom Life.
We went to the subset of it called Kingdom Paradox.
First week we saw fear of the Lord versus joy of the Lord.
The second week we saw how it is to be shrewd as serpents and
innocent as doves. Last week we saw the first will
become last and the last will become first.
It's interesting to see people are seated in the last row of
come forward this weekend. You know those who are seated?
Yeah, I know you had no choice, but but yeah, I believe God's
raising us up for those of us who've and I, even as we, I
would ask you to go and listen to that sermon specifically
because I believe a lot of us have taken a back seat.
But God's calling us to be in the forefront of all that he's
called us to do in this day and age.
And the the 4th paradox that we're going to be seeing today
is work for versus workout. I know workout doesn't go with
me, but we'll try meditating on God's Word with regard to that.
And we're going to be looking for the book of Philippians.
We're moving away a bit from the Gospels into the book of
Philippians. And we're going to be looking at
this book specifically from chapter 2.
And Paul wrote this book not from his favorite corner, not he
didn't write this like one of our music directors who probably
goes to Switzerland and says that's where they find
inspiration from, but he rather wrote it from prison.
And I believe today as we look into this theme of between work
for versus workout, I believe it's a very cultural theme.
How many of you are working for someone?
How many of you worked for someone?
All of us, If I I mean, this is big word that a lot of them are
using today. Lot of the Youtubers,
influencers, fintech people are using corporate slave.
What does that mean? That means you get into the job,
you get a EMI, and then after that you're trying to make sure
you're able to pay the EMI, and then you end up somehow thinking
you're a corporate slave. You can't move left or right.
You need to make calculated risks because there are so many
things at stake. And so that's one term.
So we work for. So suddenly working for which
supposed to be pleasurable suddenly becomes heavy.
It's burdensome. You feel the pain of it and
suddenly you're not satisfied. Contentment is not that you're
striving to make additional sources of income.
You're suddenly in a rat race. It's not like.
And so, So what happened suddenly in the last 20 years
back, we suddenly had a surge of people leave the corporate world
and all these different government jobs and suddenly
started freelancing. How many of you were in that
bandwagon? I'm raising my hand because I
was in that also suddenly start and then the pressure came upon
us. So we were working for clients.
Freelancers end up having clients to have to convert them
to retain us. We had to really submit to
whatever they said. For those of you in the music,
you'll realize what it at one stage, you can't demand what
they asked. Whatever they gave was good and
then suddenly you are pushing through.
And so working for becomes such a big, big struggle.
But when we look in the book of Philippines, Paul is asking us
to work out our salvation. And so suddenly a Christian
faith also takes that same mindset Monday to Friday.
We are working for someone and suddenly you're thinking, you
know what? I need to come to church and go,
otherwise Jesus won't bless me. I need to come to church and go
and give, otherwise my bank balance won't grow.
I need to come and put my kid here in Sunday school.
Otherwise, I know they, they, they should somehow carry this,
this, this mental, a pressured mentality.
But God saying no, I want you to work out your salvation.
I want you to work out your Christian faith and what is
working out looking like today? How many of you have got a gym
membership and failed to continue in it?
Tina's raising a hand because I forced, I said, you know what I
need accountability partner and we went and we registered right
here in slam. That's this opposite here.
Two months we went last year, October, November, December, we
gave the Christmas cake and then we didn't even see him after
that. It's tough.
Working out is tough. It's intentionality.
It requires sacrifice, it requires you to carve out.
But once you find a rhythm to it, it becomes enjoyable.
Once you find that, that's that's part of your life, it
becomes something you really desire for.
And so we look into that. When Paul wrote this letter to
the book of Philippines, there were a couple of things.
He wanted them to encourage the people who are reading it about
their faith. Yes, he wrote it from prison.
He wanted to continue, you know, his people who are there in
Philippi, to actually strengthen their faith because it could
have been dejected man. The one guy who came and
preached the gospel is now sitting in prison.
What is this Christian faith all about?
And so he wrote this letter to encourage them.
He wanted them to be assured that there is hope.
The good news doesn't stop because it's imprisoned.
The good news carries forward. And so today, whatever you've
caged yourselves in, God is asking you today, like as we
read and meditate, would you still continue to work out
because I don't know what your hardship is.
I even as worship was happening and as I was singing the love of
God, I realized a lot of us have been waiting.
How many of you been in the wait for something?
It's painful, it's tough, it wears you out because you
somehow want an answer, you somehow want something to move
through. And so God, even my love for you
seems to be wearing outlaw and I believe it's not over.
That's why I specifically believe church.
Let's be expecting for supernatural things to happen,
supernatural things to happen. That has to be a testimony not
just for us to be increased, but the circle around you to know
that Jesus is alive, for the circle around you to know that,
hey, you know what? If God could answer their
prayer, we'll go to them for prayer.
It has to come down to that. So let's move into reading
Philippians chapter 2 verses 12 to 13, which goes on to see in
the NIV. It says, therefore, my dear
friends, as you have obeyed not only in my presence, but much
more in my absence, continue to workout your salvation with fear
and trembling. For it is God who works in you
to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.
As he starts here, he goes on to say that we have to work out our
salvation. We do not work for our
salvation, we work out. God's already done all the hard
bit. He came down.
Even as we partake of the Lord's table in a bit towards the end
of the sermon, we will be reminded, God, you came down,
you did all the hard work, but now let me work it out.
Because what is what are we working out?
We are working out our old nature and you're working in the
Christ nature and then we're replacing that and that requires
a lot of strength, a lot of grace, which only God gives.
Why are we not working for our salvation?
Because it's a gift given to us from God.
When we read in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 to 9, it says
God saved you by his grace when you believed and you can't take
credit for this. It is a gift from God.
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so
none of us can boast about it. This is from the NLT version.
So we are saved by His grace, and we also cannot take credit
for it by any good works we have done.
Which brings us which takes a lot of pressure, which takes a
lot of pressure coming to church on a Sunday, which takes a lot
of pressure to do all that God's called us to do.
And I was telling another friend and I told Tina also it's I
really honour each and everyone of you for coming to church,
especially a small church. You know, if it's a big church,
if you come out go, it won't be seen.
But if it's a small church, it's pretty evident when you don't
come, you know, and, and and you choose to come each week and
even testify how that week has been and that that is community.
That is where you sing God, I invite you into the coming week.
And so that is a form of working out.
But here, when we look into this, working for is always
transactional. How many of you can relate to
that? You know, when we have to ask
our kids, especially our younger, to, to give a bath to
the dog in our house, it's always transactional.
Why? Because when we asked them to
give the AC, but you didn't pay us for the last two weeks.
So they want to settle scores before.
And so somehow we also treat Jesus like that.
We say, God, I don't want to come back to your word because
that's not answered. But God's saying, would you come
back? It's working out you're not
working for it doesn't stop with one blessing.
You'll soon realize in different seasons as you go by in life,
your Christian life cannot be dependent on that one blessing
alone. Whether that blessing comes or
not. Even when you sing that song,
you give and take away, it's scary because sometimes the
blessing we deeply desire, it doesn't stop the the next season
starts and then a new need comes up.
And so today, can I ask you that can we move from if, if those of
us who've been working for, can we move to a place of working
out our salvation? A lot of unlearning has to
happen for us if it's been transactional, because a
transactional relationship and an intimate relationship are two
different things. It's two different things.
Sometimes we treat that in our marriage only if you've done
that earlier. I know when we, when we just had
Calvin, you know, Calvin is the third born.
And so he bore the brunt of it. It was very transactional.
You know, in the night he'll wake up.
And by then we found some hacks of how to keep the feeding
bottle so that we don't have to wake up in the middle of the
night because we are staying alone.
And I remember a couple of points.
We keep it over there and then the ball, the bottle roll off
and then we we hit each other, say, hey, it's your turn.
It's your turn. And then somehow he'll find his
finger, he'll start sucking on that and he'll go to sleep and
then we'll also sleep off. You know, it's bad parenting, I
know. But but by the third you kind of
like have just like, you know what, He'll figure it out, you
know, and he he doesn't look like he's needed more milk.
So you know, I think with that, but but sometimes we've treated
a marriage transaction. But how many of you know a
transaction relationship or a marriage can't go any forward.
You truly have to love or Siri is answering somewhere.
You truly have to have an intimate relationship if you
want to see the long yards of marriage together.
And so today the same thing translates to Jesus.
So when He's calling us to work out, He's calling us to a faith
that is enduring, that'll be sustaining no matter what.
I know a lot of you have probably come into the year
expecting the year to look different, but God's asking you
as you work out this faith, can you still endure through it?
When you look through the meaning of endure, it is to
undergo or come to a knowledge of something by living through
it. And even as you found your life
through Jesus Christ, would you hold on to it 'cause His
blessings will come through, His breakthrough will come?
Would you hold on to it? What if you're giving up in this
last, second, last step and it just required you to stay
committed for the next one or two more weeks and God would
have come through. We don't know what's around the
corner. And that's the sovereignty of
God, which we rely on entirely. And it says here with fear and
with trembling, Paul is asking us to have a certain reverence
when it comes to God. When we work out the salvation,
we don't just treat it. We have fear and trembling when
we are in person. How many of you have had that?
Or when we do certain things because people are watching, but
God's saying, hey, you need to do it even when no one is
watching. That's what Paul's encouraging.
When I was there, a lot of you lived out the faith.
Probably now a lot of you have taken a few steps back because
I'm not there. It can't be dependent on the
leader of the church, the friends that you have, the
family member. It has to be solely that God is
above. He's watching me.
So with fear and trembling will be move forward.
I was just reading the Greek word for trembling, and this is
what it says. It's used to describe the
anxiety of one who distrusts his ability completely to meet all
the requirements wherein you, you are unable to trust
yourself, but religiously does his utmost to fulfill his duty.
And what is his duty? His duty towards God.
I got, I, I, I can't do it. I, I'm, I, I struggle with this.
But Lord, because I'm doing it for you, I choose to do it.
There's this certain fear that we need to bring into this
generation. The reason being I was talking
to a pastor friend and he said Geshram, the pleasure of running
church is so much I need to paint the, I've told this
earlier, I need to paint the thing black.
I need to get the lights and then only people are coming.
I said, let's push through through that.
We have come to the, the circle is over.
Now the new circle is started. If we are going to see churches
in cities, we're going to be meeting in different places.
Churches are going to look different.
I mean, if you're going to have people who don't know Jesus walk
into churches, it has to look different and God is calling us.
So let's not go back to a model where well, this is how we
change our relationship as we suddenly are working for let's
work out of so today, what is that new crushing that God's
doing? We've seen that even earlier he
in the wine press. That's why he crushes our a
mental picture many a times a lot of us have a fixed idea of
our Christian walk. So we think of this blessing has
to happen. It has to come this way, but God
saying no, let your dependence be solely on me.
When we workout our salvation, it'll result in an enduring
faith. It says here in the message when
it says fear and trembling, it says be energetic in your life
of salvation, reverent and sensitive before God.
Why is it asking us to be sensitive?
Trembling is because we don't know how God will show up.
We don't. There's no fixed way.
And so today, as we are sensitive, we'll be able to
realize that God is calling us to a certain place where I'm
learning to understand this. In fact, two weeks back, Tina
corrected a couple of my ideas on this.
Saying you've received grace, show the same grace out.
Because I filter the grace which I show out.
I've received it. I've received it 100%, but when
I'm showing it out, I'm showing only 50%.
And then and she called me out. She said you can't be a person
like that. You need to show that same 100%
out. And it got me to go into
repentance. And so Lord, I'm sorry for not
working it out correctly. I've prefabricated every form
with be it grace, forgiveness, healing, whatever it is.
I was like not doing it the way Jesus intended me to do.
And so today maybe be aware of God and his presence in our
lives. Paul goes on to say in the next
verse, there are a couple of things when we think about
working out. How do we work out our Christian
faith? The first thing is we work out
without grumbling. Philippines chapter 2 was 14.
Do everything without grumbling or arguing.
I know, I know about you, but I work out.
When I'm talking about working out, I grumble and I work out.
Why am I doing this? I'm just doing this to make Tina
happy. I'm just doing this, you know,
so I can eat without any condemnation.
You know, we, we feel that we have a coach here.
We have two of his students here.
So, you know, I don't know, probably working out this stuff.
You know, I know what they're grumbling about.
Probably they've had milkshake and they're wondering why is the
coach making me do extra 2 rounds?
But yeah, how is our, how is our Christian faith looking like
today? Are we working out with
grumbling in our mouth or with Thanksgiving in our mouth?
Because today when he calls us into the world Monday to a
Saturday, he wants us to work out of a place of not grumbling
and not arguing. What is grumbling looking like?
What is grumbling for us? It's not like why is he allowing
me to do this? A lot of us talk below our
breath. I remember.
Sorry, I have to use Calvin a lot.
But like a couple of years back when he was like 5 or 6, no, one
of the chores that kids have every day is to fill bottles in
the house, you know, water bottles.
And so his turn is to fill like 3 or 4 every day.
And when we ask him to the ref for But now he's changed.
He does it so joyfully, but before he'll grumble.
So he'll take all the four bottles till all the four 4
bottles are done. We can hear him quietly talking
and he's not talking to himself, but he's rather complaining.
I don't know why they're asking me to do this.
I would have been rather playing outside.
He'd be talking something. And I felt as I was preparing a
lot of time, my attitude and my Christian walk is like that.
But I'm complaining. God, why should I be doing this
to this person? They're not even meeting me
halfway. God, why should I be doing this
here? God, why should our church be
involved in this? God, why are we doing this here?
It it doesn't make sense, but God saying, would you work out
this salvation without grumbling or arguing?
We have rationale to justify why we grumble also.
But if you have to go back into history and look at the Old
Testament, Did the grumblers make it to the promised land?
Not even one. Did the grumblers, what did they
grumble about? They grumbled about their
slavery, they grumbled about their own life, they grumbled
about how the oranges looked, about the fact that they could
have fish. They grumbled about things that
were there in the past. And today, as God is taking you
towards the promise of eternal life, towards having and living
the life here on other to its fullest, maybe stop grumbling.
Because what does grumbling do? It derails.
It derails us entirely. It derails us entirely.
We've off lately been seeing a lot of train accidents in India
and the derailing when it happens, you're staying put
there. It doesn't move, it's upside
down. It it requires a lot of work.
And so today if you've been working out your Christian faith
with the grumbling, maybe go back to the cross for repentance
and say, God, I'm sorry. The second thing when we work
out our Christian faith is by holding firm and not hanging on.
Holding firm to God, but not hanging on.
If you read from Philippians chapter 2 verse 15 to 16, it
says so that you may become blameless and pure children of
God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.
Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky, as you
hold firmly to the world of life.
And then I'll be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did
not run or labour in vain. As Paul is encouraging them,
he's asking them to keep holding firm.
How many of you feel like you're hanging on to Christ, hanging on
to his promises? And I would encourage you if
you've been in that place where you're like, Lord, I'm in the
last thread hanging on. Would you go back and say, God,
no, God, I want to hold firm on your promises.
When, when we have this imagery of hanging on, there's nothing
underneath our feet. How many of you can imagine
hanging on looks like that? If you're holding on a crossbar
and you're lifting yourself and you're hanging, there's nothing,
There's nothing firm under your feet.
And if God is calling you to hold firm, which means he has to
be the rock that cannot be moved, things can come.
It's, I'm reminded of that parable which we all know,
building a house on the rock, then building a house on a sand.
And when the floods came, the house on the rock stood.
And I believe today, what are the promises that you've been
holding onto? God is saying, can you hold on
rather than hang on? Because it's a matter of time
when you hang on to someone else for something to be fulfilled.
It's a matter of time till you hang on to that person, to your
boss, or if I can just only get that increment or if only or you
hang on to your spouse's faith. When God saying no, I want you
to hold on to me so you can stand on your feet and be ready.
In the message it says provide was 14 to 16.
Do everything readily and cheerfully.
No bickering, no second guessing allowed.
Get out into the world uncorrupted.
A breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society.
Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living
God. Carry the light giving message
into the night. So I'll have a good cause to be
proud of you on the day that Christ returns.
So today you and I are just not called to hang on, hang on to
things, hang on to emotional things, hang on to financial
things. Rather, He's calling us to hold
firm to Him and all these things will follow.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all
these things will be added. Holding on to His promises over
our lives, holding on to His strength in our weakness.
Only of His weaknesses in our lives can we rather than hanging
on to A to an app to overcome certain addictions, can we hold
on to His promise and say God come through?
I need commitment, I need self-control.
For those of us who are probably holding or hanging on despair,
can we move into holding on to joy that will come from God if
we are hanging on discontentment till the next till I make the
next iPhone purchase. But rather can we move to
contentment which comes from God.
I believe this generation more than ever needs contentment from
God because so many things are changing.
So many things are changing today and so today God give us
contentment. Any lack in my life, may I move
to holding firmly on you and not hanging on The third thing what
God's what Paul encourages the Philippine churches your you
work out your salvation so you can be poured out.
If you're working for it's a personal it's a personal thing
that you it satisfies you alone. But when you work out your
salvation, you start pouring out it says goes on to the
Philippines 2 or 17 to 18. But even if I'm being poured out
like a drink, offering on the sacrifice and service coming
from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
What's happening is he's saying I came there and I poured out.
Now even as I'm sitting in prison, I'm encouraging you.
And that's a good model for us that in season and every season
that we will be bearing fruit. We will be bearing fruit even
when the miracle doesn't happen for me, I will be bearing fruit
lot. I will show up.
Just two days back, we were
increased by a dear, a couple, an auntie and uncle who we
dearly look up to ever since we got married.
We know their kids really well and that auntie and Creed saying
show up, keep showing up, keep showing up day in and day out
every day. And I believe a lot of us
Christians have only showed up and we thought we can.
But if you can show up every day, even when you don't feel
like it come because there'll be someone who God will ask you to
pour out your your Christian walk onto in the passion
translation it says is beautifully says God will
continuously revitalize you implanting within you the
passion to do what pleases him. That's in verse 13 is what it
says and that word which revitalize is what happens every
time we come into God's presence.
How many of you come thinking God, I don't know how this week
is going to be and when you committed to prayer, what
happens he gives you a it's like a injection of new life for the
week and suddenly you have this God perspective for this week.
You go out, you come back, and then you come back to the next
week again, and then again when you're amongst believers, your
faith is encouraged, you've been revitalized.
And so there's this constant you work out your salvation, you
pour it out, you come back, you get refilled.
And so this beautiful thing happens only when we have Jesus
at the centre. A lot of us today have made lot
of our Christian lifestyle changes based on other people's
reading other people's that that's good.
That's the testimony of others, but that's happened in their
life. What is happening in your life?
Have you had a personal encounter with Jesus?
Because today if you have to work for you'll miss out
entirely the but when you work out your salvation, there'll be
total transformation that happens within you.
And I want to take us to Luke chapter 19 verses one to 10,
which is a beautiful story of a man called Zacchaeus.
Zacchaeus was a we little man, you know, come, we have Pranav.
He was like 6-7 and you know, compared Zaki is like really
small. It says that he had to climb a
Sycamore tree and he had to see Jesus and that when we, when we
look, when we think about that, he thought he was an outcast
because he was working for the he was an Israelite, but he was
working for the Roman Empire. He was collecting taxes.
He was conned on. He was like, what is this guy?
He's stealing from us and he's giving to them.
He was looked down on and this guy just didn't just didn't do
his job rightfully. He probably took a couple of
under the table transactions where he kind of built his own
because when you see the amount he's able to repay back when
transformation happens. That is what happens when Jesus
steps into your life. When we read here it says here
Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.
A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus.
He was a chief task tax collector and was wealthy.
He wanted to see who Jesus was but because he was short he
could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed the
Sycamore fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him,
Zacchaeus, come down immediately.
I must stay at your house today. When you've decided to work out
your salvation, Jesus meets you right where you're at, right
where you're at, where you're really wanting, infusing God.
This is all that I have. My marriage didn't work out.
I'm stuck here today. I don't know what to do.
He'll meet you right there, God. I'm stuck here, Lord, as a
father, I don't know how to parent my kid.
He'll meet you right there. You'll be like God.
I've been stuck in this dead end job four years.
I waited for a raise. Nothing has happened.
He'll meet you there. If he could meet Zacchaeus right
where he was, just because he had the desire to meet who this
Jesus was. He said Zacchaeus, come down
immediately. I must stay at your house today,
so he came down at once and welcomed him godly.
All the people saw this and begin to mutter.
He has gone to be the guest of a Sinner.
If you're discounting yourself, Jesus can't walk into my life.
There's no room that Jesus has not walked into.
He's walked into every room. Probably your room looks
entirely different filled with bottles or probably it's filled
with addictions or it's probably filled with your who's Jesus,
you know, atheist belief of who God is.
Whatever your room is filled with Jesus is willing to come in
and dine with you right where you're at.
He's coming to sit right there was 8 onwards is ghost, but
Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, look Lord here and now
I give half my positions to the poor and if I have cheated
anybody out of anything, I'll pay back four times the amount
and Jesus is willing to come in and shake the entire room up.
If you honestly ask Jesus, would you come in and do as you will.
These are the things I've been carrying Lord I've been holding
onto my past. I've been struggling to let go
of the past or probably Lord I've I've self insulated myself
because of certain things that's happened in my life.
Would you walk in and when transformation happens, you're
willing to let go of everything that you worked for because
those things can't satisfy you anymore.
Look at this, the very thing that Zacchaeus was known for, he
suddenly gives it not just 1/2 he says 4 times because he knows
following Christ is more than what I worked for.
Don't wait till retirement to work out your Christian life.
Start it now so that when retirement comes, you know
clearly why God has called you into this world.
The same auntie who spoke to us, his uncle said don't wait till
60. He said I'm 64, don't 60 is when
life happens. We thought 40 is when you get
clarity, but he just moved in another 20 years when life
happens and we realize we need to strengthen our faith so that
when we hit 60, we know clearly God.
This is what you're calling us to do.
And I believe when we read in Zacchaeus, there's definitely
with the turn around. Zakiya said he was ALDI.
His life is already having an impact.
He would have been the talk of town man.
This tax collector gave off everything that he stole off.
He did soon. And it's because Jesus entered
and Jesus concludes saying Jesus said to him today, salvation has
come to his house because this man too is the son of Abraham.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save.
That was lost in our Christian faith.
Working out our faith becomes not just our life, but it causes
us to pass it on to the next generation.
You know the beautiful thing about working for you can't pass
it on to the next generation. It ends with you.
Whereas when you work out your salvation, it beautifully gets
passed on to the next generation.
It beautifully gets passed on. It moves generationally.
And so today with what God is starting to work, let's not
delay that because we won't get the time.
So let's move towards that. We all have a transformation
story in US, always have to change and new ways have to
depict Jesus alone. So today, even as we can, as we,
as I conclude, I just want to ask us, are we ready to be
poured out as we work out our faith?
Because if we work out our salvation and are not pouring
out it, it, it, it is of no good use.
We'll just have a very 1 sided view of the gospel.
But when I read his word and when I start encouraging others,
when I pour it out, it's where. And so don't today, don't think
that circumstances determine that irrespective of what
circumstance. I'm amazed that Paul could write
letters that would encourage the church back then, but it is also
encouraging the churches for the last 2000 years.
Today we are meditating on it. We all have our own presence,
but God's asking, would you still work out your salvation
and be an encouragement? Let's start looking where is God
calling us to really work out a salvation?
So even as I conclude three things which I concluded with
work out without grumbling, maybe be known that our
salvation is from God as a gift. Maybe workout holding firm to
God and not hanging on. Maybe work out so that we'll be
poured out Church. Can we all just raise our hands,
Lord? We pray, Lord, specifically,
Lord, for those who we know who still have not committed their
life to Jesus. We pray, Lord, for those who
we've been witnessing, Lord Jesus, who've been struggling,
Lord Jesus, to let go of their faith.
Lord Jesus, on other things and people, I pray they'll come to a
point, they'll have a deep encounter with you, Lord.
I pray, Lord, especially for that list which you're
continuing to pray, Lord Jesus, for our friends, for our
relatives, for our family members, that they will accept
Jesus Christ as a Lord and personal saviour.
Lord, I pray you will move their hearts.
Lord Jesus, I pray in at that time.
Lord Jesus, prepare us also to Lord, live out the life that
you've called us well, Lord Jesus, that we won't live
questionable lives. Lord Jesus, that we will live
and be the light in this Dark World.
Lord, we thank you. I pray even right now, Lord, as
we've entered into the 11th month.
Lord, I pray that you'll bless each and everyone.
Lord, I pray the hands will be blessed.
Lord Jesus, everything that your children put your hands into,
Lord will see blessing right now.
Lord Jesus, I pray that Lord, you'll bless the work.
I pray that the work will Lord bring many people, Lord Jesus,
and that we'll be able to testify about you.
Lord Jesus, I pray, I pray when you walk into spaces, we'll
bring peace. I pray wherever chaos is, when
your children walk in will be peace.
Wherever there's Lord, grief and sorrow when your people walk in,
Lord, there'll be hope. Wherever there's despair, Lord
Jesus, that your joy would come in, Lord Jesus, because we are
carriers of that. Lord, we thank you.
I pray as we step into this week, your protection go before
your children. I pray for all those who are
traveling that Lord, you would protect, are going out and are
coming in. I pray especially, Lord, the
food and water of our homes will be blessed.
I pray the doorposts of our houses, of our rooms, of our
paying guests, of our hostels will be protected by you, Lord
Jesus. I pray, Lord, for the four walls
of our homes. Lord Jesus, the cloud that
surrounds the environment will be one of yours.
Lord Jesus will be one of yours. Lord, I pray every day we will
wake up, we will call on your name, we will see your hand come
through, and we will be missional in everything that we
step out to do. Lord Jesus, we thank you.
Go before us, be with us, strengthen us.
Lord Jesus, in your most holy name we pray.
Amen. Amen.
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