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   What concerns do you have to bring to God?   
   How can you place your trust in Him?   
      
   Loving Father, thank You for wanting to   
   hear my heart. I trust that You're powerful and able to bring about Your good   
   will in my life and in those I love.   
      
   3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation   
      
   Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools   
      
   Week 8 Guided by Grace Day 3 - The Promise of Completion   
      
   Philippians 1:6   
      
   6 (1Co 1:8; Jn 6:29) I am confident of this very thing,   
   that He who began a good work in you will perfect it   
   until the day of Jesus Christ.   
      
   6 being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun   
   a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:   
      
   "Elizabeth is a good student", the note on the side of the report card read,   
   "but she doesn't finish what she starts. She has a lot of good ideas, but   
   rarely brings then to completion."   
   Many of us are like Elizabeth. We start into a new venture with high hopes   
   and great motivation. But somewhere along the way, we become discouraged.   
   Someone tells us that our ideas are stupid, or that we are not capable of   
   doing what we dream. We get a particularly difficult hurdle and give up.   
   Sometimes we fell the Christian like is like that, too. We start well, and   
   believe that in Christ we can accomplish anything. But then our prayers   
   become rote, our Bible reading ritual. We can't seem to regain that sense   
   of God's presence; we have, we conclude, "Lost our first love." (Rev 2)   
   But God has a different perspective. He began the work of salvation in us;   
   he leads and guides us in his will, and he will complete what he has begun.   
   Often we fail to see God's grace in the ongoing process of walking with him   
   because his agenda is different from ours. We know what we want to see   
   happen in our lives; God knows what needs to happen.   
   "When I first came into a relationship with Christ," one woman explained,   
   "I knew I had a lot of changing to do. But, strangely enough, the things God   
   changed weren't on my list at all!"   
   When God begins his work in our lives, he has a plan for our maturity.   
   He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. And what God   
   has begun, he will finish.   
      
   Application   
      
   a) Have I ever tried to "decide" for God what problems in my life   
   needed dealing with?   
      
   b) Has God ever pointed out issues that were a surprise to me?   
      
   c) How can today's verse help me relax in God's will and   
   have confidence in the direction of my life?   
      
   4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland   
      
   Proverbs 10:22   
      
   22 The blessing of the Lord makes rich ,and He adds no sorrow with it.   
      
   22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, And he addeth no sorrow with it.   
      
   5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:   
      
   When you are Saddened by Loss   
      
   1 Cor 15:35-38,51-57   
      
   35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised up?   
   With what body do they come?"   
   36 You fool! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.   
   37 When you sow, you do not sow the body that shall be, but a bare kernel,   
   perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.   
   38 Then God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.   
      
   51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall   
   all be changed.   
   52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet,   
   for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible,   
   and we shall be changed.   
   53 For tis corruptible will put on incorruption,   
   and this mortal will put on immortality.   
   54 When this corruptible will have put on incorruption,   
   and this mortal will have put on immortality,   
   then the saying that is written shall come to pass:   
   "Death is swallowed up in victory."   
   55 "O death, where is your sting?   
   O grave, where is your victory?"   
   56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.   
   57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through   
   our Lord Jesus Christ!   
      
   35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up?   
   and with what body do they come?   
   36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:   
   37 and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,   
   but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:   
   38 but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him,   
   and to every seed his own body.   
      
   51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall   
   all be changed,   
   52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:   
   for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,   
   and we shall be changed.   
   53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption,   
   and this mortal must put on immortality.   
   54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,   
   and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought   
   to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.   
   55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?   
   56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.   
   57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through   
   our Lord Jesus Christ.   
      
   Remember God's promises when You pray   
      
   The Lord's prayer   
      
   Matthew 6:9-13   
      
   9 "Therefore pray in this manner:   
   Our Father who is in heaven,   
   hallowed be Your name.   
   10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;   
   Your will be done   
   on earth, as it is in heaven.   
   11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.   
   12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,   
   as we forgive our debtors.   
   13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,   
   but deliver us from evil.   
   For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."   
      
   9 After this manner therefore pray ye:   
   Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.   
   10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.   
   11 Give us this day our daily bread.   
   12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.   
   13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:   
   For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.   
      
   6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)   
      
   Newfoundland & Labrador   
      
   Total population 527000   
   Muslim population (est.) 2065   
      
   As of Autumn 2014, St. John's does not have a local CNMM network. Pray with us   
   for God's people to come together in prayer   
   and cooperative efforts to reach Muslims with the Good News.   
      
   St. John's has one mosque and 2 more musallas , or prayer locations, which   
   may grow into mosques of their own. The mosque is called Masjid an Noor,   
   The Mosque of the Light, and mosque historical documents record a trip in 1986   
   to Saudi Arabia to raise funds for the land purchase and construction costs.   
   A small number of Muslim families had come prior to 1964, but moved on to   
   other places after a short time. After this date, a small community began   
   to remain and grow , reaching about 25 families in the 1980s. A number   
   of international students also join the community annually   
   ranging from 25 to 60.   
      
   In 2014 the mosque website reports the community is made up of some 200   
   families and many university students attending Memorial University. A   
   small number of native Newfoundlanders have also converted to the Islamic   
   faith, one saying of this religion in Newfoundland, "Islam is a growing face".   
   With the growth of the community, the current challenge is lack of space   
   in the mosque, which they are now looking at expanding.   
      
   Pray for   
      
   - The true Light of life, Jesus Christ, to be revealed to Muslims   
   in Newfoundland through the word, dreams, visions and answers to prayer.   
      
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