6 Things God Expect us to Do and to BE as we Engage community and State – The Church is not Peripheral to the World but World is Peripheral to the Church – Day 10 of 40 Prayer and Fasting

6 Things God Expect us to Do and to BE as we Engage community and State - The Church is not Peripheral to the World but World is Peripheral to the Church - Day 10 of 40 Prayer and Fasting

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6 Things God Expect us to Do and to BE as we Engage community and State – The Church is not Peripheral to the World but World is Peripheral to the Church – Day 10 of 40 prayer and Fasting

Day 10 of 40 – Prayer and Fasting for the Church (You and I) – For Community and State – The Church is not Peripheral to the World but the World is Peripheral to the Church – What does God expect us to do? 6 things we are to do as we engage ourselves, community and State,  example from letter to the Ephesians.

6 Things God Expect us to Do and to BE as we Engage community and State - The Church is not Peripheral to the World but World is Peripheral to the Church - Day 10 of 40 Prayer and Fasting

Core scriptures for reading, memorization and meditation today –

20-23 All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.

When we were utterly helpless, with no way of escape, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners who had no use for him. Even if we were good, we really wouldn’t expect anyone to die for us, though, of course, that might be barely possible. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since by his blood he did all this for us as sinners, how much more will he do for us now that he has declared us not guilty? Now he will save us from all of God’s wrath to come. 10 And since, when we were his enemies, we were brought back to God by the death of his Son, what blessings he must have for us now that we are his friends and he is living within us!

11 Now we rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God—all because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done in dying for our sins—making us friends of God.

A New Life

3-5 What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for, including a future in heaven—and the future starts now! God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all—life healed and whole.

6-7 I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime. Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it’s your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.

Don’t Put It Off

3-4 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

5-9 So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books. 

Nevertheless, do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

A New Heaven and Earth

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish with a [mighty and thunderous] roar, and the [material] elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are on it will be [a]burned up.

Brothers and Sister, this week, we pray for the community and the state we dwell in or operate in. We will like to bring some clarity on specific prayer item and why.

First off, you and I need to know that God did not place us in our Communities or work area only to earn salary and bring tithes and offerings into the church. God put us in our Communities and workplace because He desires to save souls and bring them into the kingdom.

There are more Christians today that are outside the falls walls of our known Christian organization because the church organization have failed a lot of people and they can’t function in those organization. There are christians in mosques, making disciples in their context quietly. They need your prayers. There are christians in government establishment that are making impacts as they declare openly for Jesus and leading many to Jesus and they are not associated with any church organization and God is working through them powerfully in that sphere. If we think the numerical numbers in our church organization are the strength of the Christian church, then we are mistaken. There are loads of christians in the Moslem nations. There are many christians in china in underground churches and are making disciples within that context. They are not card carrying members of any church organization. That is how God is functioning in our day and age. The Spirit of God does not want to be contained in the four walls of our churches. He can’t be contained in a box. He is beyond the boxes we are trying to put in into. It is not that He is not there but He is working through the lives of people who are ready and willing to let go of human tradition and make themselves available for the Spirit of God to operate through as He deems fit.

Jesus declared to these kind of people who are filled with human and place in

He said to them, All too well you [a]reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban”—’ (that is, a gift to God), 12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, 13 making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.” 

As in the days of Jesus,is the same today and worst off.

Man trying to bottle God with mens traditions. God is beyond our boxes. He is living, moving and transforming lives everywhere. He can do this only in response to our selfless prayers.

The Last post of Thursday on 3 Critical factors to Consider for effectiveness as intercessors + Introducing the prayers for community and State in 7 spheres of society in Day 7 of 40 – Prayer and Fasting for Church ( You and I) and Leadership Thursdays, 23rd of March 2023 – 23/03/2023  which you can found via this link https://www.otakada.org/3-critical-factors-to-consider-for-effectiveness-as-intercessors-introducing-the-prayers-for-community-and-state-in-7-spheres-of-society-in-day-7-of-40/

We introduced prayer and fasting for the community and the states and we broke down the seven spheres of society to be prayed for as follows:

We noted that the definitions of the spheres are akin to a vision of greatness for each sphere, self-defined by each sphere. With each one carrying the capacity to be both fulfilled for good or corrupted.

Government

Where justice and peace are safeguarded and authority is used to serve a set of citizens.

Economics (Science, Technology & Business)

Where provision is created, and stewardship is modelled. Science and technology form part of its creative force, with enterprise being the distributor of ideas and resources.

Faith, Spirituality & Belief

Engagement with the immaterial, spiritual realm, extension of mercy and the promotion of reconciled relationships; person-to-person and person-to-God.

Education

The equipping of people for their life purpose through personal transformation and the multiplication of knowledge.

Family

Where life is multiplied, belonging is found and individual identity is first established.

Media

The transfer of wisdom and the promotion of healthy relationships through forms of communication that are life-giving.

Celebration (Arts, Entertainment and Sports)

The strengthening of hope and the building of community through holistic presentations of life that engage the whole person.

If you are a Christian, you will identify yourself in one or more of the spheres highlighted above.

How then do you identify and execute God designed mandate that can influence that sphere? This comes through prayer and listening to Gods prompting.

19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.

One question we should ask ourselves is this:

Lord, you have placed me in this Government establishment in furtherance of Your kingdom. What rule should I play for You here outside my primary rule as an employee in this Government establishment?

This type of question can also be applied to families within your neighborhood that have no relationship with Jesus. It could apply to the school you teach or are currently attending. It could be applied to you being a member of a media company or a director or owner of the company. You might be living or working with people of other faith or in some sport/ entertainment spheres.

Once that question is asked and you are praying that God’s purpose and kingdom will be established in your establishment, you will be in a better state of mind to receive promptings from the Holy Spirit on the next line of action.

Remember, You are not there, representing your local church to recruit people for your local assembly. You are not there to promote your agenda. You are there to promote God’s agenda for God’s kingdom plan in the sphere of that society you found yourself.

You see, the church is not the organization you worship. The church is you and I – the living, moving kingdom and temple of God in the earth realms on two legs. The assembly you attend helps you develop your spiritual gifts and relationship with God and others which is crucial for deployment in your spheres of influence. But where the work is in is in you, carrying yourself into your workplace, your business, your community to influence it for Christ. You point them to Christ and not to your denominations or to yourself. You don’t represent yourself, your represent Gods kingdom, you are His ambassador.

Read, meditate and meditate on these scriptures:

Philippians 3:20

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life

Ephesians 6:20
for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak

2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.read more.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him

If there is a need for discipleship, you create the enabling environment for them to be discipled. It could happen in the context of the workplace. You facilitating a relationship between them and Jesus Christ by pointing them to the bible – the gospel, helping them to apply what they learn about Jesus in that sphere for His glory.

If you are not adept at doing this, get people in your church involved who you know are adept at those areas. But everyone should learn how to evangelize into their sphere of influence.

When you talk to christians about not witnessing, they tell you that their lives should do the preaching. That answer is partly correct. But you can’t do Character without Proclamation of the gospel because they should go hand in hand. – You are a reconciler between God and Man.

You speak and let what you say about Jesus to others be reflected in your own life – that is fruit- that is character of Christ resident in you.

There are many people in our day who have better character than christians but without Jesus, that character ends in hell- period. Works, character without Jesus is useless. It’s hell.

Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going; so how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, [a]I am the [only] Way [to God] and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Jesus’ Oneness with the Father

If you had [really] known Me, you would also have known My Father. From now on you know Him, and have seen Him.” 

Jesus told you and I, in His final message before He left for Heaven

14-16 Still later, as the Eleven were eating supper, he appeared and took them to task most severely for their stubborn unbelief, refusing to believe those who had seen him raised up. Then he said, “Go into the world. Go everywhere and announce the Message of God’s good news to one and all. Whoever believes and is baptized is saved; whoever refuses to believe is damned.

17-18 “These are some of the signs that will accompany believers: They will throw out demons in my name, they will speak in new tongues, they will take snakes in their hands, they will drink poison and not be hurt, they will lay hands on the sick and make them well.”

19-20 Then the Master Jesus, after briefing them, was taken up to heaven, and he sat down beside God in the place of honor. And the disciples went everywhere preaching, the Master working right with them, validating the Message with indisputable evidence.

Remember, you are an ambassador of Jesus. You promote the agenda of your kingdom by speaking, proclaiming and acting out what you proclaim.Jesus did the same. Paul did the same thing in prison, to the prison officers and inmates. He preached both in prison and outside prison to unbelievers and believers alike as He encourages them to represent Christ correctly..

I will bring here the writings to the Ephesians Chapters 1, 2, 3 ,4 and 5 and 6 tell them to pray to know what God wants them to do. Why He called them , how they should conduct themselves, how they should exercise their gifts and how to be ready to preach the word to the world. let’s take Paul’s message one by one because it also apply to us and this prayer points that we have drawn up for prayer for the church and leadership on calling forth Gods plans and Purposes, Commiting ourselves to carrying out His instructions and doing this in love and unity is modelled after the prayers we have put up for praying for church and leadership.

Below are 6 things we should do in engaging the community and the state as the World is Peripheral to the church and not the church to the world. Understanding divine agenda and our rule in it.

1) Interceding for other Christiao: Praying that they Know why God called them into Christ kingdom and  praying for them for the purpose of heavenly agenda that they need to key into – The World is Peripheral to the Church and not the church to the world:

7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

11-12 It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

13-14 It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This down payment from God is the first installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life.

15-19 That’s why, when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn’t stop thanking God for you—every time I prayed, I’d think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength!

20-23 All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.

2) We are Gods temple:  God building a temple without walls, borders where no division between gentles and Jews, recruiting us to bring unbelievers into the family of God as one whole temple. Building His temple in our hearts 

Let’s read

He Tore Down the Wall

1-6 It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

7-10 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

11-13 But don’t take any of this for granted. It was only yesterday that you outsiders to God’s ways had no idea of any of this, didn’t know the first thing about the way God works, hadn’t the faintest idea of Christ. You knew nothing of that rich history of God’s covenants and promises in Israel, hadn’t a clue about what God was doing in the world at large. Now because of Christ—dying that death, shedding that blood—you who were once out of it altogether are in on everything.

14-15 The Messiah has made things up between us so that we’re now together on this, both non-Jewish outsiders and Jewish insiders. He tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance. He repealed the law code that had become so clogged with fine print and footnotes that it hindered more than it helped. Then he started over. Instead of continuing with two groups of people separated by centuries of animosity and suspicion, he created a new kind of human being, a fresh start for everybody.

16-18 Christ brought us together through his death on the cross. The Cross got us to embrace, and that was the end of the hostility. Christ came and preached peace to you outsiders and peace to us insiders. He treated us as equals, and so made us equals. Through him we both share the same Spirit and have equal access to the Father.

19-22 That’s plain enough, isn’t it? You’re no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You’re no longer strangers or outsiders. You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. God is building a home. He’s using us all—irrespective of how we got here—in what he is building. He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation. Now he’s using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone that holds all the parts together. We see it taking shape day after day—a holy temple built by God, all of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home.

3) The Secret plan: Our responsibility of bringing others into this light of God which was the secret plan God is unfolding and doing this by example. We are sent to bring the lost to Christ.

 

The Secret Plan of God

1-3 This is why I, Paul, am in jail for Christ, having taken up the cause of you outsiders, so-called. I take it that you’re familiar with the part I was given in God’s plan for including everybody. I got the inside story on this from God himself, as I just wrote you in brief.

4-6 As you read over what I have written to you, you’ll be able to see for yourselves into the mystery of Christ. None of our ancestors understood this. Only in our time has it been made clear by God’s Spirit through his holy apostles and prophets of this new order. The mystery is that people who have never heard of God and those who have heard of him all their lives (what I’ve been calling outsiders and insiders) stand on the same ground before God. They get the same offer, same help, same promises in Christ Jesus. The Message is accessible and welcoming to everyone, across the board.

7-8 This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the details. When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no background in God’s way, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians. God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.

8-10 And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!

11-13 All this is proceeding along lines planned all along by God and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in him, we’re free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go. So don’t let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud!

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14-19 My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

20-21 God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

Glory to God in the church!
Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
Glory down all the generations!
Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

4) Our lives should grow into maturity in Unity as we engage with the world and with ourselves

25 What this adds up to, then, is this: no more lies, no more pretense. Tell your neighbor the truth. In Christ’s body we’re all connected to each other, after all. When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself.

26-27 Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don’t use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry. Don’t give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life.

28 Did you use to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work.

29 Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift.

30 Don’t grieve God. Don’t break his heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself. Don’t take such a gift for granted.

31-32 Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.

5) Wake up from our sleep, do the main thing, work in love and let the love of Christ set our relationship right

Wake Up from Your Sleep

1-2 Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

3-4 Don’t allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don’t talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn’t fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.

You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them—the usual variations on idolatry—will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God.

6-7 Don’t let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him. Don’t even hang around people like that.

8-10 You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You’re out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.

11-16 Don’t waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It’s a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ.

Wake up from your sleep,
Climb out of your coffins;
Christ will show you the light!

So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times!

17 Don’t live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants.

18-20 Don’t drink too much wine. That cheapens your life. Drink the Spirit of God, huge drafts of him. Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs from your heart to Christ. Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ.

Relationships

21 Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another.

22-24 Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.

25-28 Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage.

29-33 No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become “one flesh.” This is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband.

6) We must Fight to the Finish – Get your weapon out, go on the offensive, preach the word and pray always as you ask for boldness to speak out and live right. 

A Fight to the Finish

10-12 And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no weekend war that we’ll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels.

13-18 Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.

19-20 And don’t forget to pray for me. Pray that I’ll know what to say and have the courage to say it at the right time, telling the mystery to one and all, the Message that I, jailbird preacher that I am, am responsible for getting out.

This brings us to the end of

6 Things God Expect us to Do and to BE as we Engage community and State – The Church is not Peripheral to the World but World is Peripheral to the Church – Day 10 of 40 prayer and Fasting

Day 10 of 40 – Prayer and Fasting for the Church (You and I) – For Community and State – The Church is not Peripheral to the World but the World is Peripheral to the Church – What does God expect us to do? 6 things we are to do as we engage ourselves, community and State,  example from letter to the Ephesians.

The prayer for community and state end of Friday as we expand these same set of prayers to nations and the Nations of the earth.

Until then,

Shalom to you all!

Ambassador Oreojo Ogwuojo Monday Ogbe

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