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Prayer

Praying For Our Students
Discipleship

Praying For Our Students

Here is the 6th prayer for Element Church in our sermon series called “What I’m Praying For.” ⁠ ⁠ “God, we pray over the next generation. We lift up the children and teenagers who are passionate about you. We pray that they have adults in their life who will love and support them; who are passionate…

Pray This Way For The President
Discipleship

Pray This Way For The President

In 1 Timothy, Paul tells us to “Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority.” ⁠ ⁠ We don’t have a king, but we do have a president and many people who are in authority, and this is how we are to pray.⁠ ⁠ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to HELP them;…

Wisdom, Hope, And Power
Discipleship

Wisdom, Hope, And Power

Here is prayer four in our “What I’m Praying For” sermon series at Element Church : ⁠ ⁠ Oh God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, through Your Holy Spirit, we are asking you for spiritual wisdom. Connect our minds with Yours so that we may truly know You. Flood our hearts with Your light…

Purity and Integrity
Discipleship

Purity and Integrity

Here is the third prayer we are praying at Element Church from our sermon series called, “What I’m praying for.” ⁠ Lord, you have charged us to keep your commands carefully. Oh, that our actions would consistently reflect your decrees. May we seek only Your standard of Scripture in our lives. May Yo…

Oh, Sovereign Lord!
Discipleship

Oh, Sovereign Lord!

Here is the second prayer we are praying at Element Church from our sermon series called, “What I’m praying for.” ⁠ ⁠ “Oh, Sovereign Lord, we are asking You for Spiritual Momentum. Fill us with confidence in who You are. That even when things seem out of control, we acknowledge You are in control. G…

What I’m Praying For (Week 1)
Devotional

What I’m Praying For (Week 1)

What am I praying for our church?⁠ ⁠ That’s what I answered on Sunday at Element Church as we started a new sermon series called “What I’m praying for.” ⁠ ⁠ These aren’t the only things I’m praying for our church, but they are three specific things that I’m challenging you to pray with me each day t…

New Sermon Series: What I’m Praying For!
Element Church

New Sermon Series: What I’m Praying For!

What are you praying for? That’s a personal question. Even more personal is this: If all your prayers come true, how holy would you be, how many other people would be helped, and how many specific people would make it to Heaven? That question wrecked me when God gave it to me, and I challenged our c…

Smashing Idols
Discipleship

Smashing Idols

True worship in our hearts will lead to the destruction of idols in our lives. In 2 Chronicles 31, the people of Israel had just come off of a festival of praise and sacrifice to God. They had all been in Jerusalem for Passover and were heading back to all their towns throughout Israel. 2 Chronicles…

Four Things To Do In This Time Of Uncertainty
Discipleship

Four Things To Do In This Time Of Uncertainty

Hey Element Church ! In the message I shared with you on Sunday, I challenged us to do four things in this time of uncertainty. We can’t control the government. We can’t control the testing. We can’t control the school district. We definitely can’t control this virus. Here are four things we can con…

Don’t Give Up On Prayer
Discipleship

Don’t Give Up On Prayer

If you have ever felt like giving up on praying for someone or something, this post is for you. The timing of God blows me away. On so many occasions, I have been reminded that God’s in control. He is Sovereign. He cares about every part of my life in the most intimate ways. Over the last several ye…

What Is Fasting And Why Should We Do It?
Discipleship

What Is Fasting And Why Should We Do It?

We don’t fast so we can get something from God, we fast so we can seek more of God. “Fasting is abstaining from food for a time in order to gain mastery of the physical realm and open us up to the spiritual. Christians have practiced fasting consistently through the ages as a way to get closer to Go…

Who Would You Want To Pray For You?
Discipleship

Who Would You Want To Pray For You?

This last Sunday at Element Church we kicked off a new sermon series called “Seven” which will lead us up to Easter Sunday. In this series, we are looking at the seven final statements of Jesus from the cross. Most of his time on the cross appear to be silent, but the four Gospel writers record seve…