Prayer warrior message no. 4 - valentin.castanon@gmail.com - Gmail

At my current appointment in Frederick, MD, we are having our stewardship campaign using a new resource prepared by Jim Harnish. As part of that program we have a team of folks leading our church in prayer as we study Wesley's use of money: Earn. Save. Give. Here is the meditation #4. Enjoy it!



Dear Prayer Warriors



Thank you for your continuing prayers for our Trinity's Annual Commitment to Ministry.  I am invigorated with the thought of our prayers ascending daily to God's attention. We know he hears and ANSWERS prayers.  A successful campaign will be so exciting.  So keep those daily prayers coming.



The topic-- EARN, SAVE, GIVE-- from John Wesley's sermon ("The Use Of Money") is the focus of the campaign for the month of October. His sermon focused on wise management of money and putting it to the best, most Christian use.   Peter Storey said, "By far the most important element of Wesley's engagement with social issues was his development of a Gospel-shaped behavior toward money and riches that was predicated on his commitment to the poor."  The wisdom involved in managing money was a strong emphasis for those early Methodists and provides us a good example.  Harnish reminds us "How we use our money is no small matter.  It goes all the way to the heart of our relationship with God and our lives as disciples of Jesus Christ."



Prayer--Dear Lord, thank you for all the love and kindness you so abundantly bestow on us.  Help us to be good stewards of your bounty.  Open our hearts to the urgent needs of others.  Move us to provide for those needs through our campaign for the ministries.  Be with all those around the world in need of your help, the Christians, the refugees, the poor and sick everywhere.   Give us the loving and giving hearts you deserve. Help us to remember that through your love, you gave us your son to ensure our salvation.  In His name we pray.



"The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity.  If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not!"

                                                                              J. Hudson Taylor



"In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"  Acts 20:35