Hi All, Prayer Calendar for GYFC for November. Regards ERnie

 

 

Hello!  And once again, thank you all so much for your continued prayers.

 

Attached you’ll find our day to day prayer calendar in what we hope will be a much easier to read and follow format this month.

 

I was challenged this month by a sermon that I heard at a local church about the man who had laid at the Pool of Bethsaida for many years. (John chapter 5)  Jesus asked the man who had been lying there for 38 years waiting for his opportunity to get into the pool, “Do you want to get well?” (John 5:6)  The answer surely was obvious…he’d been waiting here long enough in the hope that he might get into the pool when the waters stirred…but I was challenged to wonder if this man had been paralysed by a false hope.  Here he was, unable to move, and yet he longed to get into the pool.  How could he possibly do that alone?  There was no way as he had no one to help him, and yet he still remained by the pool side, in hope.  He was holding onto a dream of getting better, something that was and would cause a great deal of difference in his life…but this hope, that could never be realised on his own, was preventing him from getting on with the rest of his life.

 

We have come across a number of young people this month who have been paralysed by their circumstance.  Many of them hold onto a hope for the future that will just never come true.  For some this false hope is the dream of obtaining money, for others it’s the affections of another person, for some it’s alcohol or drugs.  For each of them Jesus asks them ‘Do you want to get well?’  But just as with the man at Bethsaida, it requires movement away from that false hope, and people how will come alongside and help them to move away.

 

Please pray that as we offer the hope of Jesus Christ to young people this month that they will choose to move away from the things they believe will solve their issues and discover true healing in the arms of the One who really can set them free.

 

Please pray specifically for some of our young people who have been subject to various forms of violence in the past week.

 

Thank you, and please feel free to get in touch with any thoughts, words or pictures that you may receive whilst praying.

 

Grace and Peace,

 

Malcolm

 

 

Malcolm Smith

Director

Gillingham YFC

133 Trafalgar Street

Gillingham

Kent

ME7 4RP

 

01634 578128

07841383289

Skype: malgyfc

 

Registered Charity: 1062977

 

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