HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH PRAYER DIARY SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE TIMES 9:00 & 10:45A.M.

MONDAYEVANGELISTIC PRAYER Chronological Bible Reading: Genesis 13-15; Matthew 5:1-24 Monday, January 6 Hos. 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. Yes, Most Gracious Lord: You did indeed know me when I was fallen. When I was so bad off I even hated myself, you still sought me to be your child. You satisfied my constant cravings. Thank you for your rich, free, abounding mercy. But, oh Lord, I know so many others who are wandering in the wilderness I was in! Even now their experience is a desert on the inside. Because you purchased them with your blood, I ask you to claim them as your child now. Pour out streams of love and grace. Help me get __________ to the gospel! When outward circumstances are at their worst, and I wander in a barren and dry land, teach me to look only to Jesus. I lack everything until I have your presence. There are men and women who do not know you, but you have known them. You see their soul in all their adversities. Oh that __________ might turn to you for salvation and end their despair! I magnify you for your faithfulness to me in my most trying circumstance. I regret that I have at any time distrusted you. I have too often been exalted in my own heart, when I really owe everything to your gentleness and love. Have mercy, and send me with the good news to __________. You noticed me in my sad distress. I must now be sure I own both you and your causethe eternal purpose of God to glorify yourself by Jesus Christ through his body the church. Do not let me be so lifted up with worldly success I am embarrassed or ashamed of your word or your Spirits work. I will follow you into the wilderness to reach others. I will bear your cross in the heat of the day. I am ashamed at the thought of ever being ashamed of you. You are my best Beloved, friend Jesus. Amen. TUESDAYFOCUS ON CHRISTS MIRACLES Chronological Bible Reading: Genesis 16-18; Matthew 5:25-48 Tuesday, January 7 Luke 17:15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, Lord, Your Mercies! Why do I put them in storage even before I praise you? Why make my praises like some exotic flower that takes a century to bloom? Why keep my thanksgiving waiting at the door even for one day? Since the manna of your mercies come to me fresh every morning, so should my praises stay hot this New Year. I have praised double if I praise you immediately! It was this lepers duty to go directly to the priests. You gave him a command to do that in your law. But there is a balance in everything, and every duty has to be held in proportion to others. The circumstance of his healing affected the order of his priorities. So the first thing he did was to turn backto go back and bear witness to the people, glorifying God in the middle of it all, and falling down at the feet of Jesus. Carnal minds always put legalism first. They will never break from tradition. But love sees that the spirit is more precious than the letter. So to come back and bow at the feet of the great High Priest is much more important than going on to stand before lesser priests. Hallelujah! Today I go first to Jesus. Right now, in spirit, I bow before him. I love the Lord, and I want something more than Sunday services! I want to get to Jesus himselfto tell him in prayer how much I love him. I long to do something for him on my own, so I can show the gratitude of my heart to God. Give me the intensity of this healed leper, who had a loud voice. Dont let me whisper my praises. Propriety should be shoved out the window. Jesus, make my life shout glory to you today, for you are worthy! Amen. FRIDAY CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY Chronological Bible Reading: Genesis 25-27; Matthew 8 Friday, January 10 Exodus 30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. O Lord and Master: Bless our church, its pastors and leaders. We thank you for your mercy, and the fact many of us have been spared to serve you in spite of physical infirmities and spiritual failures. We thank you for the many teachers and disciplers among us. We ask Lord, that all of us might be anointed with fresh oil, enabling every working or suffering brother or sister to have fresh grace! Make this Sunday a time of trimming and dressing the lamps, so all of us can shine brightly to the praise of the glory of your grace this New Year. Bless our nation. Lord, in mercy avert the horrors of terrorist actions from our midst. Grant that peace can be continued here, and make war come to an end where it rages abroad. Make a policy of truth and righteousness be taken up in our country and by our government, and forgive us for our great national sins. Bless the President with every blessing. Visit us with the splendor of your love. Psa. 67:5-7 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. Forgive the weakness of our praying. Forgive our wandering hearts. Through the Well-Belovedwho now stands before your throne in all his resurrection beauty, through him whom our soul loves even as you love him, through him whom we adore as the one who is over all, God blessed forever (Rom. 9:5)through him and for his sake look kindly on our congregation. Lift our horizon, and increase our flocks. Help us reach others for you, and do it through your power. Grant us this so Jesus can be glorified in our lives, we pray. Amen. WEDNESDAYREVIVAL PRAYING Chronological Bible Reading: Genesis 19-21; Matthew 6 Wednesday, January 8 Ezek. 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Glorious Father and King: If I ask, you will give me your Spirit (Luke 11:13). If I open my mouth wide (Psalm 81:10) you will fill it with faith. 1 Pet. 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: This verse says I can have the Spirit of God resting on me! Just like Stephen was a Christian filled with the Holy Spirit, so I can be this year (Eph 5:18). That is real revival. Lord, I seek all the spiritual anointing and uplifting you gave your people of old! Why should we not have it right now? Why should we not be a bright candle in a very dark and lukewarm age? Though you will not reveal new truths (because I already have a completed Bible), yet you can bring the old truths to life in my soul. You can make them potent in my conscience. Make yourself real in my life, for this is why I cry for revival. So many today are just Christians, but they are not glorifying God or living close to you (in other words, they are not disciples). They are not mighty in prayer, nor well-taught in scripture, nor useful in ministry. Lord, if we do not have the Spirit for those things, it is because we do not seek him for them. That is all. We do not flee from our sin and seek a new filling. Mighty Spirit of God, help me acknowledge your presence in my own life today so I will have your power. I need to seek you with a deeper sense of my desperate dependence on your filling and anointing. Lord, give your own gentle, truthful, all-powerful Holy Spirit to me, because I am asking today. Amen. SATURDAYIN THE PSALMS Chronological Bible Reading: Genesis 28-30; Matthew 9:1-19 Saturday, January 11 Psa. 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. Lord, I Thank You for Grace: Moses split the rock in the wilderness. It was a divine supply for Israels dehydration, and should have kept them forever faithful to their wonder-working God. Torrents, not driblets came out to slake their thirst. Streams in the desert followed their campnot for an hour, nor for a day, but for their entire journey. Psa. 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah What a marvel of grace! How much more gratitude do I owe you? Rivers of love have flowed to me in this worldly wilderness. To question you is to speak against you. How sad that I have so often complained about my blessings, and longed for the fulfilling of some dream. I (to my shame) have counted your gifts to be nothing because they did not happen just like I hoped, imagined or wanted. Luke 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe: This brings me to repentance. Psa. 78:25 Man did eat angels food: he sent them meat to the full. The delicacies of royalty were outdone, because you supplied them the elegance of angels food. The bread of the mighty has been supplied to man. Gospel provisions in the dispensation of grace deserve every praise I can bring. The bread of life is just as free, full and abundant today as the manna ever was! Help me feed on Jesus, because then I have tasted better than angels bread! Never did angels taste above / redeeming grace and dying love. So let me give you praise from this desert, because you have supplied all my needs according to your riches (Phil. 4:19). Fill me now with faith for Jesus sake. Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING Chronological Bible Reading: Genesis 22-24; Matthew 7 Thursday, January 9 Phil. 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

IM pressing on the upward way, new height Im gaining evry day; Still praying as I onward bound, Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. My heart has no desire to stay where doubts arise and fears dismay; Though some may dwell where these abound, my prayer, my aim is higher ground.
I want to live above the world, though Satans darts at me are hurled; For faith has caught the joyful sound, the song of saints on higher ground. I want to scale the utmost height and catch a gleam of glory bright; But still Ill pray till heavn Ive found, Lord, lead me on to higher ground. Lord, lift me up and let me stand, by faith, on heavens table-land, A higher plane than I have found; Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. Johnson Oatman

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HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH PRAYER DIARY SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE TIMES 9:00 & 10:45A.M.

HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH

JANUARY 5, 2014

HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH

HOW TO BUILD A BALANCED LIFE

THIS WEEKS EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

TODAY Welcome to all our visitors! Please take a white visitors card from the back of the pew in front of you. Fill it out and put it in the offering plate or hand it to us in the lobby. Wed like to know youre here! 8:00A.M. Early service No childcare (including nursery) 8:45A.M. Dunkin Donuts Coffee & snacks in the gym between services 9:00A.M. Defenders Christian Apologetics Class in Room 6 11:00A.M. College & Career Class in Room 6 5:30P.M. Evening Service Enjoy a Missions Night with us this evening! MONDAY 12:00 NOON Proverbs & Prayer Lunch meeting at the church. Bring a friend and your lunch, or else sandwich fixings, chips, and soda are provided. WEDNESDAY Adults in the sanctuary AWANA! Bible club for kids, 2 yrs-6th Grade SATURDAYS Living Faith Bible Institute classes start Jan. 11-12: Bible Survey II, Matthew, and How to Study the Bible. Register at www.lfbi.org or fill out an application in the lobby. Turn in to us and we will pay the fee. Each new student receives a leather wide-margin Bible (while supplies last)! NEXT SUNDAY Gods Eternal Purpose How to Thrive & Survive the New Year, Job 13:15 Evening Service Revelation 3, 5:30P.M. SUNDAY, FEB. 2 ND Super Sunday: BAPTISMS! at 9:00 & 11:00A.M.sign up today in the lobby!

PRAYER DIARY

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TIMEWORSHIP Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

" INTERCEDE WITH GOD " INSTRUCT SAINTS " PROMPT PETITIONS " KICKSTART DEVOTION

GIVE GOD THE FIRST PART OF EVERY DAY. The first commitment is to a daily quiet time with God. Our weekly Prayer Diary provides a template for daily devotions. 2) TITHEWORK 1 Cor 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. GIVE GOD THE FIRST DIME OF EVERY DOLLARno questions asked. Ten percent is a miniscule amount in our affluent society, but it must come off the top in order to show that God is our priority. We want the blessing of the firstfruits (first devotion, first dime and first day) to flow out to the rest of our resources. 3) TEAMWORD Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. GIVE GOD THE FIRST DAY OF EVERY WEEK. You should fellowship with a group of believers around the word of God every Sunday in our church.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Baptists tend to ridicule liturgical churches that use "prepared prayers" because they lack spontaneity. But for many Baptists, their prayers are so predictable they are no more spontaneous than written-out prayers. The result is we end up praying the same things over and over. This daily Prayer Diary will prompt you on a wide range of prayer requests you might not normally think of, while forcing you to articulate a deeper devotion to God. We have included a daily Bible reading schedule. This plan will take you through the Bible chronologically in a year. Do not read ahead and do not try to catch up. Use each day as it comes. Then you can know that on any given day, dozens of other people are lifting their hearts in the same mind to God. Pray what is written, but use what is prayed as a springboard for your own relationship with God. You learn to pray by praying. Alan

! Keeping Christ at the center (your core relationship of worship to God) ! Keeping the body of Christ a priority (your congregational relationship of walking with us) ! Basing beliefs and actions on the mind of Christ (your church relationship in the Word)

QUALITY CHRISTIANITY INVOLVES THREE THINGS

Secret prayer is the secret of prayer, the soul of prayer, the seal of prayer, the strength of prayer. If you do not pray alone you do not pray at all. Our Lord Jesus Christ would go nowhere till He had prayed. He would attempt nothing till He had prayed. Oh, says one, I live in the spirit of prayer, and therefore I do not need times and seasons for prayer. And do you think that Christ did not live in the spirit of prayer? Yet He had to have his special time and place to pray. Do not fall under the injurious notion that because your spirit cries to God in prayer all day long, therefore there must not be some season for more immediately coming into Gods presence. If you imagine this, I am afraid that it will prove a snare to your feet. The Lord Jesus Christ, who knew better than you do that the main thing is the spirit of prayer rather than the act of prayer, yet Himself retired into desert places to maintain the act and exercise of prayer. Be spiritual. Be baptized into the spirit of prayer. But do not be deceived by the enemy, who can steal a spirit away while we dream that we only spiritualize it. We had better preserve the very bones of prayerthe posture, the time, placerather than let it all ooze away into an impalpable mental condition. God keep us prayerful. He will do so if He makes us like His dear Son. Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834-92

MINISTRY, SERVICE & FELLOWSHIP

Help! If you can help at the hospitality booth, either on Sundays or special events, see them at the booth or email Jennifer at dr.j.amundson@hotmail.com TUESDAYS STARTING JANUARY 28 Women of Integrity Study, 7:00P.M. in Room 5 Facebook Jackie Dorsey for info or email her at jdorsey02@comcast.net Keep up! HBC Android and iOS7 app is now live. Search for Harvest Baptist Church. With the Harvest Baptist Church App you are only a tap away from: - Instant access to sermons - Adding events directly to your device calendar Maps & directions - Important Alert Notifications - Facebook & Twitter Integration, Videos, and more!

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