Day 1: Loving God: Gutter Cleaning

5/20/2019

Day 1: Loving God: Gutter Cleaning

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Scripture:
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me - Psalm 51: 10

Reflection Questions:

What is cluttering your life and needs to be extracted?
Are there things you are holding on to that are blocking you from going deeper in your relationship with God?
What can you confess to God and ask forgiveness for?

Prayer:
God of power, create in me a clean heart. I confess that there are things that a blocking me from a fuller love (name them). Please forgive me Give me the discernment to know how to best remove the buildup and to best utilize the gutter guards in my spiritual life. Thank you God for your call to love those who persecute, and for the way it gives us a picture into your extravagant grace. Amen

Challenge:
To confess the blockages in your life to loving God Invite God to remove any debris that inhibits you from loving God more fully.

Author

Over the next 21 days, Aldersgate UMC is invited into an intentional time of prayer for ourselves and our community, You will be receiving a daily email (FaceBook blasts too!) with scripture, questions, prayer, and a daily challenge to use during your personal prayer and devotional time. The prayers used will come from a new resource by Justin LaRosa, a UMC Deacon from Hyde Park UMC in Tampa FL. The resource is called “the Jesus Challenge” - 21 Days of loving God and Neighbor. Some other prayers will be adapted to include specific prayers for our Aldersgate community.
I pray that you engage in these days of prayer as a time to go deeper in your relationship with God and in prayer for the Aldersgate UMC and the community of East Brunswick! I look forward to hearing about your experiences on Pentecost Sunday!!
Blessings Pastor Erica

21 DAYS OF Prayer