Christ Church Selly Park

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Please pray for the PCC this week as we have a discussion and make a decision about the shape of our midweek ministries.

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How should we pray for peace and security - in Jerusalem and for those who love it?

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How should Christians respond to the rise of so-called Christian nationlism in the UK?

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As our government recognises a Palestinian state, how can we pray?

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Thank you! Thank you so much for engaging together in prayer during our 777 Prayer Week.

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Susan Haynes | Joel 2:12-18 

‘Even now,’ declares the Lord,
  ‘return to me with all your heart,
  with fasting and weeping and mourning.’
Rend your heart
  and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
  for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
  and he relents from sending calamity.

Amid a warning of coming judgement, the prophet Joel calls the whole people of God to repent - to confess their wrongdoing and turn back to God with all their heart. As Susan explains, the message is just as relevant to us today - and God's willingness to forgive and restore also never changes throughout the ages.

Due to technical problems during the service we do not have a recording of the original talk; instead, Susan kindly re-recorded her words for this podcast, and also added an explanation of the prayer stations through which we were able to express our repentance and the promise of God's forgiveness.

The recording begins with the reading from Phil Banting.

Starting on Sunday 31 August we are running 777 Prayer: praying together from 7am to 7pm for 7 days.  But why?

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Ben Green | Habakkuk 3.1-2

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth.

Lord, I have heard of your fame;
    I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord.
Repeat them in our day,
    in our time make them known;
    in wrath remember mercy.

Habakkuk goes on a journey of prayer, beginning with seeing what's wrong with the world, through some big complaints, into a big request for God to repeat his awesome acts of salvation - but ends finally in patience and joy.  How can we go on the same journey, and how can we find that same joy in the Lord?

The recording begins with the reading from Susan Mole.

Anxiety, healing - how should we pray? How are we going to pray together?

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