Good Morning

Good Morning Mt. Oak & Friends,

Today the message will be about intercessory prayer. I want you to know that I have spent time this morning praying for you – in specific ways and in general ways. I hope you will pray for me as well.

This Scripture came to mind - Psalm 17:1 - Hear, O Lord, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer — it does not rise from deceitful lips.

Today I honestly and with a sincere heart pray for the folk of Mt. Oak and our friends. I want God to touch our hearts today in worship and to minister to our hurts and our needs, but mostly, to draw us closer to Him.

As I get to know Mt. Oak more and more I know we have some awesome people with some awesome accomplishments in life. But I pray this morning we would all have the mind of Paul, like the mind of Christ - Philippians 3:7-11 - 7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ — the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

I want to know Jesus more and more and I want that for you as well. See you this morning my friends.