Spotlight for Sunday, January 31, 2010: Life and healing ministries in Kenmore

"Now choose life, so that you and your children may live."
~ Deuteronomy 30.19

Dear saints,

We know our God loves us to choose life and to be His agents in creating a culture of life. And we know He responds to our Spirit-led prayers for the transformation of lives and of nations.

Our prayers are needed now, that our state legislature would not enact legislation restricting clinics like Life Choices Pregnancy Clinic from helping women who need hope and help during crisis pregnancies. This issue will be in committee on Wednesday, January 27. May the Lord deal with it there, or at any stage of the process that will bring Him the most glory and honor. (Full report below.)

The last 12 weeks, we have prayed for each of our 12 Kenmore congregations in turn, so this coming week, Sunday, January 31, 2010, our Prayer Spotlight is on 5 ministries connected to Kenmore that address the sanctity of life, sexual integrity, and healing:

~ CareNet/Life Choices Pregnancy Center: provides a safe, confidential place to receive the medical services and information needed when facing a crisis pregnancy
~ Healing Hearts Ministries International: Christ-Centered healing for post-abortion and other traumas: "He sent His Word and healed them."
~ Legacy Institute:  educational resources that empower people to be whole in a sexually broken culture
~ Healing the Culture: a nonprofit educational organization promoting a culture of life
~ Northshore Healing Rooms: a place to receive confidential, non-judgmental prayer for your healing on every level. NHR is now in their own location: 10125 Mainplace Suite A, Bothell, WA 98011

"Father in heaven, thank You for moving us to ask You for what You want to give us, that Kenmore shall be a city of Life...

"Please increase our faith to seek You for all that means, to believe what You tell us, and to receive all that You desire to give us, to the glory of Jesus. We don't want to be like those who lost their entry to the Land of Promise by being slow of heart to believe You...

"Father God, we ask You to pour out Your heart to the people through Jesus in these ministries to Kenmore: Life Choices, Healing Hearts, Legacy Institute, Healing the Culture, and Northshore Healing Rooms. Keep them on track with Your purposes for their existence. Guard them from dissension within and without. Give them favor with those who need to hear what they have to say in Jesus' Name. Open the windows of heaven and pour out the material provision for their work. Raise up workers for every role that needs to be filled, and anoint them with Your Holy Spirit and with fire to serve You in love and truth, for Jesus' sake...

"We believe You desire Kenmore to be a city where the poor have the gospel preached to them, where the broken-hearted are bound up, where the prisoners are set free, where the captives hear the proclamation of release, where the lame are healed and the blind receive their sight.

"Father, we believe You desire Kenmore to be a place where people receive courage to choose life, where they learn to reject every unclean spirit of fear, but welcome Your Spirit of power, love, and a sound mind...

"Thank You Father, for Your good plans for the souls of this city. Lord, we ask You to make the Church the full expression of Your will. Jesus, please be free to express Yourself in us and through us by Your Spirit dwelling in us, in Jesus' Name and for His glory."

Amen? Thank you for praying!
Please remember to pray with us for the city for one hour each Friday morning. If you can come in person, we meet at The Living Room Consignment & Tea, at 8:30 a.m. Fridays, next to Life Choices Pregnancy Clinic

May our worship bring Him pleasure, our repentance bring His favor, our surrender and obedience bring His power, that all may bring Him glory.

Love to you in Jesus' Name,

Spotlight for January 24, 2010 on The Worship Center

"Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation.
For You I wait all the day."
~ Psalm 25.5

Dear saints,

Please share this with others in your sphere who are interested in praying for our community.


Here's a great resource in praying for city transformation: Tim Taylor's "Operation Rolling Thunder", now available as an ebook:
http://stores.lulu.com/watchmantt 
For your calendar: "Praying Globally, Connecting Locally": Operation Rolling Thunder's 2010 Kick-Off for Washington State will be March 5-6 at Christ Church Kirkland:


Our Prayer Spotlight next Sunday, January 24, 2010, is The Worship Center, Pastor Paul Isacson
7915 NE 192nd Street, Kenmore, WA 98028, 206-686-9494

I've been enjoying browsing through blueletterbible.org's collection of verses that use the Hebrew word "qavah", waiting on the Lord. Looking to Him, longing for Him. And I found 16 promises! Let's use these in our prayer for The Worship Center:

"Father in heaven, You are so amazingly faithful and true. Your every word is our very life. Help us to obey the New Commandment, that we would love one another as Jesus has loved us. His love is so perfectly unselfish and sacrificial, it is beyond us, but we believe You make it possible by grace through faith. Thank You, Father. As we wait upon You together, help us show this impossible love by praying for one another continually...

"Bless all our brothers and sisters at The Worship Center this week, Father. Let them experience Your love sweeping them up in Your holy embrace, as they wait upon You, Father God. Just as Your every promise is "Yes" in Christ, let their "Amen" resound to the glory of God through them. Strengthen them this week by Your grace to endure in hope and joy, and to wait upon You. Let every saint at The Worship Center, young and old, receive every promise You've made to those who wait upon You, for we ask in Jesus' Name, for His pleasure, honor, and glory."

So, here are the promises I found. Maybe you will find more! By grace, let us proclaim and claim every promise of God as our birthright in Christ, for faithful is He who has promised and He will also bring it to pass!

As we wait upon the Lord...

1. ...we will not be ashamed!
2. ...we will be preserved by integrity and uprightness
3. ...we will be strong and courageous
4. ...we will inherit the land
5. ...we will be exalted to inherit the land, and will see the wicked cut off
6. ...God will incline to us and hear our cry
7. ...we will be in the company of His godly ones
8. ...we will have hope
9. ...God will save us
10. ...we will see our God, we will rejoice and be glad in His salvation
11. ...God will be gracious to us; He will strengthen us every morning and save us in time of distress
12. ...we will gain new strength, mount up with wings like eagles, run and not get tired, walk and not become weary
13. ...the Name of the Lord our God and the Holy One of Israel will glorify us
14. ...we will no longer walk in the stubbornness of our evil heart (yay for new hearts!)
15. ...the Lord will be good to us
16. ...we will observe kindness and justice

Let's also remember those who have asked us to stand with them in prayer:

==> Fridays, 8:30 a.m. pray for the city for 1 hour at The Living Room Consignment & Tea.

==> Please pray traveling mercies over one of our member's son-in-law, Dave. He is a doctor in Pennsylvania and his church goes to Haiti four times a year.  He is heading over to help in a few days.  Last time they were there, their local contact was murdered right before their eyes.  That is how dangerous it was then, and it is worse now. "May our God arise over Haiti and reclaim it as His own by right of creation and of redemption in Christ Jesus."

==> praying for Nancy, to be healed from cancer on her kidney; she'll be in surgery early Tuesday a.m.

==> Update on Pete, resting at the hospital under treatment for 3 embolisms, praying for complete healing and financial provision.

==> praying for healing and redemption and glory to Jesus for Pastor Dennis Trout facing myeloma. Also, praying for other local pastors facing cancer and other major illnesses. Pray for our shepherds.

==> pray for Eastside Love, INC to help churches serve the needy through their web-based point of connection: http://god-pages.com/

==> continuing to hold up the Shelton family in prayer regarding David's head injury, for healing, for provision, for fulfillment of all of God's destiny for David, Deb and all their children. Thanking God for his godly heritage in performing for Christ all these years, that his fruit may remain, to the glory of Jesus who keeps us.

==> praying for God's power to lift and expand the ministries in our region, that Jesus may be known by all.

==> mark your calendars now for Healing Hearts Ministries International Annual Dessert Benefit, March 19th at 7 pm at Northshore Baptist Church. Raised up by God to extend His healing love and freeing truth to both men and women whose hearts and lives have been broken by abortion and other traumas.

==> praying for baby Makayla, 4 months, who had blood vessel break in her head and has had seizures, possible brain damage. Praying for her family as they all struggle to cope. Praying for Father's heart to be revealed in all this.

==> praying for my Aunt Jan, cancer in several tissues.

==> praying for Sally C. that her eyes will be completely healed, that her soul will be at peace about their decision not to have surgery. "She who waits upon the Lord will not be ashamed."

==> praying for healing and salvation for a customer at The Living Room who last year suffered from a pulmonary embolism and is still plagued with fatigue and painful pleuritis.

==> praying for Dave S., for God's comfort and healing after being beaten and left in coma by robbers in Everett, and now in recovery.

==> praying for God's full and miraculous provision for each of you, in spirit, soul, and body, through His riches in Christ Jesus.

==> continuing to pray for June, who broke her hip badly last week, for recovery from surgery, and that she will know the Lord as He truly is.

==> continuing to pray for a son who has fluid in his lungs and a blockage in his intestines.

==> continuing to pray for Colton, a 10-year old boy, a young man of prayer, with leukemia. May God pour out faith in great measure, that the Lord Jesus may move unhindered to accomplish all that He desires in Colton's life and his family.

==> continuing to pray that the empty restaurant in the parking lot across from Life Choices Pregnancy Center would be used by God to increase His presence in the marketplace, and to increase the light of life in Kenmore.

==> praying for the Church in America to humble herself under God's hand, resist the devil, receive His healing grace.

==> praying for the ManhattanDeclaration.org affirming the sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, and the rights of conscience and religious liberty.

Please remember The Living Room Consignment & Tea exists to help support Kenmore Prayer Circle, provide a place of prayer for the community, serve as a marketplace connection for furniture and local art, and as a place of fellowship.

Thanks!