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Eric & Kristi Mock
Slavic Gospel Association
Family: Anna Prayer Letter
________________ River’s Edge Bible Church – Prayer and Praise Update Week of July 6, 2014 Please pray for River’s Edge as we move through the summer months that we will faithfully serve God and encourage one another as the Lord leads us. Whether it be our Monday night Bible Study on Pilgrim’s Progress, our summer kids outreach, Space Adventure Camp, ourSunday night youth group Bible Study or our regular Sunday morning worship service, we want to be sure that God is glorified in all things and that we are following God rather than moving forward without him and asking him to bless our plans. We thank you for your prayers and ask that you continue to intercede on our behalf that the gospel will bear fruit in our midst and that we will grow in unity and maturity. 1. We praise God that the Space Adventure Camp is going well with 12-15 kids attending each day, and many volunteers who are working hard and able to interact with these kids one-on-one. 2. We thank God that one young girl who has been attending the summer camp came toSunday School and church this week. Pray that she will come again and that we can invest in her and her family. 2. We thank God along with Jon for safety and endurance during a week of 12-hour shifts. We also ask prayers for a man at his work whose legs were crushed in an industrial accident. 3. Mark asks for praise for a co-worker whose baby was born healthy, but prayer for the mother who went into cardiac arrest during delivery and is on a respirator. Her name is Nina. 4. Please pray for Kylea as her job search continues. 5. We thank God that Rey has a new job with better pay and that won’t require him to work Sundays. Pray for Rey and Carron as they go to Iowa for his new employee orientation. 6. Please pray that in the midst of eroding values and freedoms in our nation, we will be committed first and foremost to Christ and the gospel rather than overly concerned with various other causes. FREEDOM “...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2 Corinthians 3:17) There is much talk these days of our rights and freedoms being taken away. But if our freedoms were taken from us, particularly our freedom to practice our religious faith openly and legally, would our faith survive? As long as the Spirit of God is within us, no matter what law, government or force may inhibit our outward expression of faith, our true freedom is never taken away. Those who possess—and are possessed by—the Holy Spirit of God have the freedom to no longer be slaves to sin, have the freedom to understand and apply the truth of Scripture, have the freedom to commune with God at any time or any place, have the freedom to live under grace rather than under the law, and have the freedom to love others as God in Christ Jesus has first loved us. Furthermore, those who have the Spirit of God have the freedom to overcome the world, even when it seems the world and its animosity toward Christ seems to be overcoming us. But even if we may lose our lives for the sake of the Gospel, still we are free to enjoy the gift of eternal life. Only those who have the Spirit through saving faith in Christ have true freedom no matter what practical freedoms may be taken away. Let us not hold so tightly to our personal and constitutional freedoms that we neglect the freedom we have in Christ. After all, discipleship is more than allegiance to a creed or a cause, it is allegiance to Christ himself, and if Christ be for us who can stand against us? |