The Heart Of The Church

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1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 (NIV)
Timothy's Encouraging Report

6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you. 7 Therefore, brothers, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. 8 For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord. 9 How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? 10 Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.

11 Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. 12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. 13 May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.

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Father God, please continue to bless Lighthouse Evangelism, for the continuation of doing good works, bringing Your good news to unbelievers, the enlightening sermons that are being taught every Sunday, and the kind people who served dedicatedly in their respective ministries to facilitate the smoothness of each of the service.

I pray that You will bless Senior Pastor Rony Tan as well, for he has really shared many of Your valuable teachings and important principles, wrote many insightful books, and started different classes for different levels of believers so that our knowledge of You may increase both in width and depth. I, for one, was transformed because of these.

Father I want to commit myself to this church, and so I pray for Your calling to whichever ministry, that uses the talents which You have blessed me with, to please You. I believe only when I serve and belong in the church, can I really be considered to be a member of the whole body. I rest my faith in You.