Welcome to the 30 Days of Prayer home page! During the next 30 days we will be taking care of our soul! We encourage you to join us in strengthening our spiritual disciplines and praying for what God wants to do in our lives and in our church!
Each day Pastor Nelson will share readings for you to enjoy below. These may include stories, articles, bible verses, etc.
One of my favourite movies is "A Christmas Carol" written by Charles Dickens about a Scrooge who only knew how to live for himself but changes at a late hour of his life to make a great impact!
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
Those words were spoken by James and are found in James 1:2-4 NIV
"Receive and experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within yourselves."
- Philippians 4:23 (Message)
OK, when did somebody let you off the hook, I mean a major league flub up and they didn’t hold your feet to the fire!!
It is said in professional sports that it is the character players who show up in the tough games to get the tough wins! I think one of the great misunderstandings about impact is to think that it is heavily weighted on our gifts and talents when it is fundamentally a character measurement. Whether it is sports, entertainment, business, there are more people with talent on the rubbish pile that discovered too late that without character talent has a short lifespan!
This week we begin our final audit of 30 Days of Prayer, ‘The Audit of our Impact’.
The impact of our life is very hard to measure or audit, because we do not have any idea where the ripples hit the shore. Yet it is good to reflect on it as maybe the most important thing about impact is not how far the ripple goes but what the ripple achieves.