Happy Week, Family! 🔐
This week, we praise God for:
💟 Alex and the Edmonds Family thank the Lighthouse Family for all of their prayers. They are also grateful for the grace and mercy of God that guided them to Georgia safely. They want us to know they plan to STAY a part of the Lighthouse Family, even from across the miles! ♥️
💟 Doris us grateful for the Lighthouse Family as well, for helping her to pray for her family. She testified that God has kept her through her little obstacles and helps her to fight her battles! He is also answering those prayers: Her grandson, Dorian is graduating 8th grade this week. Her daughter, Jackie, got a promotion at work and is very happy about it! Skylar made honor roll. Doris is very proud of them and also grateful for the great gift of her grandchildren, who help her to smile and laugh even when she's having a hard day. Please continue to pray for her family. Doris also had the pleasure of joining the Bible study at 10:00 am and was blessed by her time studying and fellowshipping with her church family. She encourages everyone to join for Bible study each Sabbath, at 10 am.
💟 Pat is thankful that John only has one more day of radiation therapy. She thinks God for bringing him through it so far and asks that healing power to pump through Him. She is also very grateful for her blessings of life, even through adversity.
💟 Jackie is extremely grateful for the fact that God has opened her eyes so that she can clearly see all of the blessings around her! She thanked God for the promotion she received at work, without even expecting it. She knows that God is Walking with her and will continue to do so. She just wants to praise God for his goodness and faithfulness towards her!
💟 Angy is grateful that the Lord has protected Alejandro and his ship, The Eisenhower, while they are at sea protecting us. May God keep them from being delayed from their return scheduled for July. 🌊
💟 She is also grateful for the Bible Study Squad that meets faithfully each week and is willing to study God's Word and to learn.
💟 All of the young people,every Sabbath at the Lighthouse. Their willingness to help, to serve and to lead are an inspiration to everyone. We are so veryy BLESSED to have each of them! 🤗
We are also praying for:
🛐 Joel, Carole's husband. The drs have informed him that he still has Covid pneumonia in his lungs. Carole is so grateful that God has protected and watched over her husband. Continue to pray that God will touch his lungs and give him the strength and the good health to fight this disease once and for all!!! May He also give Carole the strength and peace she needs to help him through this!
🛐 Vasthi asked that we keep our church leadership in our prayers.
🛐 All of the fathers at the Lighthouse!💙
🛐 Seth’s upcoming eye surgery, scheduled for August. May the same Jesus who gave sight to the blind touch Seth's eyes with healing and improved sight.
🛐 Micharen's uncle, Ismael. He was able to travel to Florida and has found an experimental treatment for his cancer. Charen is grateful that he has been able to eat and hold down his food since starting the treatment. Please continue to pray for healing.
🛐 Nancy, Sue's sister-in-law, as she continues her three week radiation treatment for cancer. May God give her strength and healing.
🛐 Vasthi asks the church to pray for her nephew, Mikey, for Cedric and for all of our young people.
🛐 Zully, Sue's other sister-in-law, who is having a biopsy. Let's pray for positive results.
🛐 Nelly's grandson, Jordan, as he faces a very difficult time in his life. May anything God allows in his life bring Jordan closer to Him!
🛐 Pat asks her church family to pray that God will help her on her journey towards good health.
🛐 Our brother, John Vega, will begin radiation treatment on Tuesday. Pray for God’s protection and healing.
🛐 Nelly, and for answers to her health questions. May God grant her team of doctors the wisdom they need to figure out this mystery.
🛐 Bianca, Vishal and Sebastian Suri. May the Lord shower their beautiful family with blessings from above.
🛐 Rosa and her daughters, their husbands and their children.
🛐 Angelica, as she continues to walk through the doors God is opening for her.
🛐 Doris, and her daughters, Jackie, Amanda and their children, Skylar, Heaven Lee, Dorian, Zaire and Amir. May God keep working miracles in their lives.
knowing that God has always come through.
🛐 Anna Ortiz as she continues to battle cancer, and for her family as they support her.
Our Thursday night focus on Prison Ministry continues with a deeply touching letter from the founder of Prison Fellowship. He began the tradition of sharing the letters written by those who met Jesus while imprisoned.
Like him, I pray tonight's devotional touches your heart, because that’s what Jesus wants-for our hearts to be moved by the hurting, the lonely, the broken, and the forgotten, including those in prison. 💔
Most Christians who decide to visit prisoners do so out of a sense of duty, the belief that they should take Christ into prisons. When we visit, however, we invariably discover He is already there. We go into the prisons to bring a blessing to those locked inside; but more often, we come away richly blessed ourselves, having received more than we have given.
This collection of devotionals provides that same blessing. As I read the fervent reflections of Christians incarcerated across the United States, I sensed the love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control that can only be the fruit produced by our Lord Himself.
As always, He reveals Himself through the words and prayers of those He died to save.
Those of us who have spent time in prison know human depravity. We have lived in the midst of sin; we have been trapped in its awful bondage. Consequently, many prisoners have a special sense of gratitude for God's mercies and grace, understanding, as many on the outside may not, what it really means for God's Son to have taken their place on the cross. It is that sense of gratitude which makes these devotionals so poignant. I hope you're enjoying them.
I have experienced the most meaningful communion with my Lord, not in the lofty cathedrals of the world or in the great churches of our land; not under exquisite stained glass windows or in the shadow or ornate altars, but on my knees by a prison cell praying with men and women like I once was, locked away in the horrid pits we call prison. I have come to know, as I pray you will also, that indeed, in even the darkest of dungeons, He lives.☝🏽
Chuck Colson (1931-2012)
Founder, Prison Fellowship