Easter Weekend Prayer Requests

Hey Element Church! HUGE weekend for the Kingdom of God and for us at Element Church. If you could take a break from your day and pray for a few moments on the following things I would greatly appreciate it. These are some things that are on my heart before our Resurrection celebration.

1. The Lost --- Seriously we should approach the throne of grace with confidence on this one. No one wants to see the lost come to church tomorrow more than our Father. Pray that Element and ALL Bible believing/preaching churches are filled tomorrow with fellow Cheyenneites who do not know Jesus as their personal Savior. Tomorrow is the one day a year that most people at least seriously think about attending church. Pray that God gets them there.

2. Element Church --- We are expecting a lot of people tomorrow. Pray for a sense of expectation. Pray for the Holy Spirit to FILL that theater with His presence. Pray for each person who will attend. Pray for Adam as he leads us in worship. Pray for me as I ask the question "How has Easter affected you?" Because of the crowd we are expecting we are intentionally shortening our service to create more comfortable traffic flow between services. Pray that we are smooth with our times and transitions.

3. Movie Times --- Every Saturday I check the paper to see when movies will be playing. I opened today's and there are 4 movies starting at straight up noon. I was under the impression that that was not going to happen but apparently I was wrong. We typically get done with church at 11:45 and are out by 12:30. That poses a slight problem. I'm not sure what screens those noon movies are showing, but if they are in any of ours we will have an issue. PRAY PRAY PRAY that it does not cause disruption to our presentation of the Gospel. The GREATEST message ever told we get to tell again tomorrow and offer a life changing experience to people.

4. Other pastors/churches --- Pray that God would bless the other pastors and churches around our city with WONDERFUL Resurrection celebrations. Pray for the words to be spoken and the Gospel to be proclaimed in all churches tomorrow, not just ours.

Why pray these things? Our main Scripture tomorrow is taken from Acts 26 where Paul is telling King Agrippa what God had told him he was sending him to do. "Yes, I am sending you to the Gentiles to open their eyes, so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God’s people, who are set apart by faith in me."

That is how God wants Easter to affect us. Tomorrow, people will be given the opportunity to turn from darkness to light. To be rescued from the power of satan unto God. They can receive forgiveness of sins through the RISEN JESUS which is the ONLY way we can have a place among God's people, and be set apart through our faith in Him. WOW, what an opportunity.



Anticipating and Expecting,

Jeff