FORTY DAYS OF PRAYER

As we begin 2023, truthfully, things are not “looking up” in our world. Only with the Lord’s help will people experience peace this year. Financial pressures, relationship stresses, political turmoil, wars, sickness, a growing distrust of leaders and media, mean that 2023 will be a year of disquiet in our world. But then there is God. We can turn to Him and ask for His help. “He has never failed us, yet”, as the worship song we sang in the January 1st worship service reminds us. So, in this year’s 40 Days of Prayer let us turn to God, possibly as never before. 

We will send out each Monday the next week’s schedule via email, also posting it on our church’s What’sApp Prayer Wall page, our FaceBook page, and our website (www.mclaurinbaptist.org). We encourage you to have a journal or notepaper on which to write down your thoughts and anything the Lord is saying to you. What you write down is completely private; we will not be asking for a report. 

For each of the 6 weeks, we will have verses from the Bible to memorize. This first week is 1 John 1:10 – If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His word has no place in our lives. 

This is our 9th year of praying collectively for 40 Days. We will do again this year what we have done in the past: start on the 40th day before the Season of Lent begins, finishing on Shrove Tuesday (February 21st). We will begin with an online Prayer meeting on ZOOM, this Friday at 7 pm. The link for that meeting is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7804341663?pwd=YjVDSGI4UG15bUFGYm4xcVY5QWt2QT09 Meeting ID: 7804341663; Passcode:1663. We will hold a Prayer Meeting every Friday of the 40 Days of Prayer at this time, via ZOOM.