What will we be doing?
Starting at 1 pm, we will be having an informal time for everyone to get to know each other and welcome new visitors.
Then we will transition to opening our Bibles and doing a study on this week's topic or we may have someone in our group share a testimony or something they learned from the Bible or got in answer to prayer. (We love testimonies!)
After the Bible teaching, we have a discussion and answer questions. We wait on the questions because many times, people already get the answer from the Bible or someone's testimony. This let's them know that God is very interested in helping them and that we aren't the focus of the meeting as leaders or the ultimate experts.
During the meeting, we are ready to pray for people who need physical healing or other problems they would like a prayer of agreement with.
We often see immediate and complete results, if not, we keep learning what else we can do to help things along.
This is an Africa Style meeting- Bring a Bible, chair and a drink if you can. We do have extras.
Right now, we don't have children's class and we prefer they join in.
This week's actual lesson
Perfect Peace & Divine Care
The Peace That Passes Understanding
A. God's Perfect Peace Promise
Philippians 4:6-7 (AMPC): "Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. And God's peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."
We had a really helpful discussion about ways to control our anxieties, thoughts and fears with God's help.
Prayer Time:
While we are at the US and Canada border each time, we pray for the leaders of both Nations, the people living there, any urgent situations Internationally and any specific situations we want to agree on.
If you are attending the meeting, we are always ready to pray for you to get healed, give your life to Jesus or get help from God for any situations.
Due to being older and having God help us with a very long list of difficult, heartbreaking and 'impossible' situations, we have enough faith to assist most situations with high confidence.
We also pray for other churches, evangelistic meetings and any prayer requests from ministry partners or people who have asked for group prayer.
Prayer changes things!