As we continue to strive and grow spiritually and to bolster our Pastoral Transition Prayer focus, we are asking you to join together in prayer and meditation (beginning Monday November 6) for the next 14 days, embracing the following scriptures and themes.

If possible, let’s pray together during the 7am morning hour, 7pm evening hour or 12:00 noon timeframe.

Prayer Themes and Biblical Scriptures

• Confession: In order for us to be open in this transition process, we must be honest and transparent, first to ourselves, through personal reflection and then to one another, through communal reflection. Prayer is active, fluid and should generate change in us individually and collectively.

• II Chronicles 7:13-16, King James Version: If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

• Psalm 51:1-12, New International Version: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot our my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

• Prayer in Faith: Believe, God has the answers and will supply our needs and direct us if we trust Him. We should also be active in faithfully considering the needs of others and thus coming together as a family to listen, hear and love.

• James 5:13-16, New International Version: Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

• Proverbs 3:5-7: King James Version: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct they paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.