Greetings Family,

Ponder these thoughts from the author of the book, “Draw the Circle”.

“The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.“ (Page 80); Author: Mark Batterson

For this week (August 20 through August 26), let’s consider the following bible passages (in collaboration) with the “#BeEncouraged - Bible Passages That Share Encouragement” from our Allen Temple website. We beseech you to ‘pray aloud’ and meditate on the prayer themes and the scripture verses. If possible, let's pray together during the 7am morning hour, 7pm evening hour or 12:00 noon time-frame.

Prayer Themes and Scriptures

• Believe, God has the answers
  • 1 Chronicles 16:29: Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him; Worship the LORD in holy array.
• Believe, God has the answers
  • Romans 10:9: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
• Believe, God has the answers
  • Psalm 9:1: I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
• Believe, God has the answers
  • Philippians 4:6-7: ⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
• Sunday School Lesson (8/26) – Practicing Justice
  • Colossians 3:5-17 (KJV): ⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: ⁶ For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: ⁷ In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. ⁸ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. ⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; ¹⁰ And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: ¹¹ Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. ¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; ¹³ Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. ¹⁴ And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. ¹⁷ And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Please come join us, as we wrestle with and discuss this week’s Sunday school lesson

As we continue seeking the will of God and His discernment through the processes of prayer and meditation, we invite you to not only incorporate our Scripture & Meditation Focus into your daily life via the weekly newsletter insert, but also the entire archive on the Church website (Allen-Temple.org; click Pastoral Transition on the top blue bar of the home page), but to also join us at our Thursday Pastoral Transition Prayer Hours in the Sanctuary. The Prayer Hour will be followed by Thursday Evening Bible Study taught by Pastor Smith and Reverend Olu Bereola. Dates and times are:

Pastoral Transition Prayer Hour Schedule
Thursday, August 23 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Thursday, September 6 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Thursday, September 20 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Thursday, October 4 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Thursday, October 11 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm

God Bless!!!