Thank you God for feeding us today through Your faithful servant Pastor Brandt. Thank you for upholding him through the service in body and spirit. You gave him Your Spirit, that we could hear and learn Your Word that we needed so badly today. Help us now to keep Your Word, to carry it with us throughout this week, that it may sink deep into our hearts and transform us. Bless Pastor Brandt with rest this afternoon, and continue to uphold Pastor Cook and the Schlehuser family as they wait with Alan. Father, bring Your light to that dark hospital room. Amen.
(There will be no recorded sermon from today, I apologize.)
Today's readings
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Romans 8:1-11
John 11:1-16
As we grieve and wait with the Schleuser family, we pray according to God's word.
Heavenly Father,
Alan, the one whom You love is hurt. Have mercy on him and his family. Have mercy on all of us, we who wonder like Mary and Martha, "Where were You ,God?" and in anger think, "If only You were here." You know the thoughts of our hearts, Merciful Father. We do not understand Your ways. Our love for You is brittle. But You love us, and You have promised it will not always be this way. As Pastor Brandt reminded us today: Daylight WILL come. Help us Lord, in the house of affliction, and keep us safe in Christ until that day when darkness is no more.
In Jesus' name, Amen
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