Sanctuary is currently closed, due to COVID-19, and will (hopefully) reopen in May.
As we practice love for God and our neighbors by respecting the restrictions from those in authority and desiring the well-being of others over our own comforts, we continue to place ourselves in the loving embrace of Christ. Our perspective is through the Cross of Christ: what love is willing to do…suffer with…all the way through… until “it is finished.”
Prayer is not hindered by our closing. God is not forgotten. Indeed, the opposite is true. Our awareness of God is strengthened as our comprehensive need for Him has once again been revealed. We are desperate for God at all times, but we don’t know it at most times. In the face of this Pandemic, let the gift of this remind our hearts and minds to turn more fully and consistently to Him. May the Throne of Grace be besieged with our prayers, first of thanksgiving for Who God is, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, His never failing love, His mercy new to us each day, and then supplications for those who do not know Him, those who are hurting, sick. May God be glorified in this time and may we as a nation turn back to Him fully in love and repentance.
Many, if not all of us, have a more unhurried pace right now; this is a gift in the middle of this mess. I want to encourage us, along with St. Paul of the Cross, to “Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through the garden or the fields, listening to the sermon preached by the flowers, the trees, the meadows, the sun, the sky, and the whole universe. You will find that they exhort you to love and praise God; that they excite you to extol the greatness of the Sovereign Architect Who has given them their being.”
May it be so. Be well dear friends. God is near.
jlm
Prayer Room Hours
Monday, Wednesday (12-4pm)
Tuesday, Thursday (10am-4pm)
Monday (Fast Day)
12:00p Noon Day Prayer – Jo McKenzie
12:15 Wilmore Anglican Intercession – Jo McKenzie
1:00 Soaking Prayer
2:00 International House of Prayer KC Streaming
6:30 Revival Prayer – Joe Bowsher
Tuesday
11:00a Devotional Worship – Joy Lee
12:00p International House of Prayer KC Streaming
1:00 Soaking Prayer
2:00 International House of Prayer KC Streaming
Wednesday
12:00p Noon Day Prayer
12:15 Listening Prayer – Hule Goddard
1:00 Soaking Prayer
2:00p International House of Prayer KC Streaming
Thursday
9:30a Cornerstone International Intercession – Suzanne Jones
12:00p Noon Day Prayer – Jo McKenzie
12:30 Lectio Divina – Jo McKenzie
1:00 Soaking Prayer
2:00 International House of Prayer KC Webstreaming
Saturday February 1
7:00p Souls On Fire