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On Sunday September 12, 11:00 A.M

We will celebrate our

"Back to Church Sunday."

We're inviting all of our friends, family and neighbors, to

join us at the TEMPLE  for a mighty move of God

in this service.

Yokes will be broken, Those bound will be delivered,

Sinners will be converted, Saints will be sanctified,

All for the Glory of God.

Please plan to be in Attendance.

Bishop (Elect) Dr. Dale Cudjoe

Will proclaim the spoken word.

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2010 Prayer for the National Leaders

by Franklin Graham – 2010 Honorary Chairman

Lord,

We are thankful for the abundant blessings You have bestowed on America.  Our forefathers looked to You as Protector, Provider, and the Promise of hope.  But we have wandered far from that firm foundation.  May we repent for turning our backs on Your faithfulness.

We pray that this great nation will be restored by Your forgiveness.

From bondage, You grant freedom.

Through Your own sacrifice, You offer salvation.

From the state of despair, You offer peace.

From the bounties of Heaven, You have blessed – not because of our goodness – but by Your grace.

You have given us freedom to worship You in spirit and in truth as Your holy Word instructs.  May our lives honor You in word and deed.  May our nation acknowledge that all good things come from the Father above.

President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that our nation should set apart a day for national prayer to confess our sins and transgressions in sorrow, “yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon… announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

“We have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our own hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own… we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us!  It behooves us then… to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”

Help us to pray earnestly for our president and leaders who govern, that they will humble themselves and seek Your guidance so that everything we do will shine the light of Your glory in a darkened world.

May our prayers as a people and a nation be heard and blessed for such a time as this.  We make this plea in faith, believing in the mighty name of Jesus our Lord.

Amen

Prayer Guide

Through this prayer guide, you will have an opportunity to petition God on behalf of our leaders and those who are in authority over us, as we are instructed to do in 1 Timothy 2:1-2: As you humbly come before the Lord and seek His face, please pray that these men and women will be granted divine wisdom, guidance and strength to fulfill their important roles:

Pray for Federal Leaders

President: Barack Obama
Vice President: Joe Biden
Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton
Secretary of Defense: Robert Gates
Secretary of the Treasury: Timothy Geithner
Attorney General: Eric Holder
National Security Advisor: Gen. James Jones
Director of National Intelligence: Dennis Blair
Secretary of the Interior: Ken Salazar
Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack
Secretary of Commerce: Gary Locke
Secretary of Labor: Hilda L. Solis
Secretary of Transportation: Ray LaHood
Secretary of Energy: Steven Chu
Secretary of Education: Arne Duncan
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Eric K. Shinseki
Secretary of Health & Human Services: Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development: Shaun Donovan
Secretary of Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano
All Branches of the Armed Forces
U.S. Supreme Court

Prayer = Love
Prayer works in the context of relationship. Once the relationship is established, you will find that prayer is its natural expression. It is simply speaking and listening to your Heavenly Father. God wants to answer our prayers. Answered prayer is how He manifests Himself in our life and makes this relationship personal “For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.” Prayer is the intimacy that flows spontaneously from a loving relationship.

Imagine that you went into a restaurant with your father. Imagine that you and your father ordered your meals, and when the waiter brought them to your table, he said to your father, “That looks delicious. I want to try a bite of that!” Then imagine the waiter picks up a fork and helps himself to a bite from your father’s plate. It would be inappropriate. You would be offended. You would demand an apology.

Now imagine that you and your father ordered your meals, the waiter brought them to your table, and you said to your father, “That looks delicious. I want to try a bite of that!” Imagine that you pick up a fork and help yourself to a bite from your father’s plate. It would be natural. Your father would be happy to share his meal with you. It would be an accepted intimacy.
What is the difference between the two scenarios? Not the words. Not the actions. Not the intention. The difference is the relationship. The child has access to the father that the stranger does not. (Adapted from Live a Praying Life by Jennifer Kennedy Dean)

Prayer starts with the relationship.
Have you found that prayer does not work for you? Perhaps you need to start with the relationship.

What Makes Prayer Work?

It’s all about a relationship!

God has created mankind so that we naturally hunger for a relationship with Him. He has built that yearning for Himself into our frame; He has encoded eternal longings in our spiritual DNA structure. The Scripture says, “He has also set eternity in the hearts of men” (Eccl. 3:11). The famous theologian, C.S. Lewis, wrote “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” (Mere Christianity)

Prayer is the bridge between Heaven and Earth. It is the conduit through which the spiritual realm is brought into our everyday lives. Prayer is the way our spirits breathe. Just as our lungs require oxygen and are designed to seek it out, so our spirits require the presence of God and are designed to seek Him out. Without His presence, we are left gasping for meaning and desperately seeking our purpose in life. We find ourselves trying our best to pray because it is as needful as air for our lungs. Prayer is the method God uses to provide not only our daily needs from food to shelter but also comfort, strength and guidance. The late E. Stanley Jones, missionary and preacher, wrote, “Prayer … is the opening of a channel from my emptiness into His fullness.” (Abundant Living)

Answers depend on the relationship!
You find yourself drawn to prayer, curious about prayer, or even desperate for prayer. Maybe you’ve tried prayer ­ and prayer has failed you. Maybe you can point to unanswered prayer after unanswered prayer, proving that prayer doesn’t work.
Does that describe you?
Welcome! You are at this Web site because God wants you to understand how you can have a fulfilling relationship with Him that will turn prayer from a fruitless exercise to an exciting adventure.

Prayer Statistics

Recent Survey by PARADE Magazine

“Our nation was built on a foundation of strong faith, and in some respects, that hasn’t changed. In fact, 69% of Americans believe in God, 77% pray outside of religious services and 75% believe it’s a parent’s responsibility to give children a religious upbringing. As books with titles like God is Not Great and The God Delusion have climbed the best-seller lists in recent years, sociologists have speculated about a new atheism in the U.S. – NO SUCH THING according to Parade’s survey – only 5% of respondents didn’t believe in God. In fact, 67% said they pray regularly because it brings them comfort and hope.”

The PARADE Spirituality Poll as conducted by Insight Express among a national online panel of adults ages 18 and over. Surveys were completed by 1,051 respondents May 8-12, 2009.

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Statistics on Americans and Prayer

• 88% of Americans Pray
• 82% believe in the healing power of prayer
• 78% say prayer is an important part of daily life
• 63% pray often
• 25% pray occasionally
• 65% believe they have had specific prayers answered
• 79% say praying speeds recovery

(C) 2009 Barna Research Group

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Forty Days

OF

Praying, Fasting & Caring

for the Lent Season

•Beware of Terrorist Groups that have been operating in the Church.

    Latest news reports are that five terrorist cell groups have been

secretly operating in many of our churches.

•They have been identified as:
•Bin Sleepin, Bin Arguin, Bin Fightin, Bin Complainin, and Bin Missin.  

Their leader, Lucifer Bin Workin, trained these groups to destroy the

Body of Christ. The plan is to come into the church disguised as

Christians and to work within the church to discourage, disrupt, and destroy.
•However, there have been reports of a sixth group. A tiny cell known by

the name Bin Prayin is actually the only effective counter terrorism force in

the church. Unlike other terrorist cells, the Bin Prayin team does not blend in

with whoever and whatever comes along.  Bin Prayin does whatever is needed

to uplift and encourage the Body of Christ. We have noticed that the Bin Prayin

cell group has different characteristics than the others. Bin Prayin have Bin Watchin,

Bin Waitin, Bin Fastin, and Bin Longin for their Master, Jesus Christ to return.
    NO CHURCH IS EXEMPT!

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  •HINDERANCES TO PRAYER• 

Learn to recognize and deal with these basic hindrances to effective praying.

           Hindrance:                                        Scripture:

  1. Un confessed sin                                   Psalm 66:18  

 If I regard iniquity in my heart,  The Lord will not hear.

          Solution—Pure heart—Confess all known sin; by faith, claim God’s forgiveness.

  2. Selfishness                                           James 4:3

  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;

            Solution– Pure motives Prayer for God’s glory

  3.  Praying for show                                Matthew 6:5-7

 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. •But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.  And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
            Solution—Pray to God 

  4. Proud Spirit                                        Luke 18:9-14 •Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 
“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.  I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ •And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
             Solution—Develop a humble, broken spirit 

   5.  Unresolved conflicts                          Matthew 5:23-24 •Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 

           Solution—Obtain and maintain a clear conscience before all men.
   6.  Unforgiving spirit                             Mark 11:25-26 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”                  Solution—Forgive others, as God has forgiven you.

   7.  Lack of compassion                          Proverbs 21:13 • Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor     Will also cry himself and not be heard. •for the needs of others

            Solution—Give out of your abundance to meet the needs of others.

   8.  Giving up too soon                         Luke 11:5-10;   •And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;  and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

  Luke 18:1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart,                Solution— •Persistence—Perseverance in prayer until God answers.

    9.  Lack of fervency                            James 5:16 •Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 

            Solution— •Pray earnestly and fervently. 

    10.  Unbelief                                      Mark 11:22-24 •So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.  For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, •‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.  Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

           •Solution— •Exercise faith in the power of God.

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•Remember, effective praying will be . . .

• FOCUSED • Pray specifically.  Avoid vague generalities. 

               • FERVENT • Isaiah lamented, “There is none that stirreth up himself

to take hold of God.”  Pray with earnest desire for God to meet us in this crisis hour. 

              • FREQUENT • Don’t give up!  Persist in daily prayer, if need be, for

years, until God sends revival.  

            • FAITH-BELIEVING • Expect God to answer!  Meet His conditions

and claim His promises.

Deaconess Joyce A. Harris, Prayer Ministry Leader

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For the New Year 2010

(January 1-31, 2010)

God’s Throne has no office hours!

Matthew 6:5-8

“5—And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites.  For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

6—But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

7—And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 

8—Therefore do not be like them.  For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.”

Christ Temple

Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.

4201 Washington Street—Gary, IN  46408

Elder Dale L. Cudjoe, D.Min., Pastor

Phone:  (219)  884-1837

Fax:  (219)  884-2480

Sister Joyce A. Harris,Prayer Ministry Leader

Hebrews 4:15-16

“For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne of Grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

• Thank God for Who He is…what He has done in your life and what He is doing in your life. Thank Him for His Holy Spirit…our comforter, teach and guide. Thank Him for being your Savior and Lord and for His protective custody during your lifetime.
• Thank God for His goodness, mercy and grace. Repent of all your sins and ask the Lord for forgiveness and to fill you afresh with His Holy Spirit.

PRAY FOR YOUR FAMILY

• Parents, husband, wife, children…call them all by name and ask the Lord to save those who are not saved.
• Begin a devotion time with family members and pray for and with your children; sow seeds of faith in them and be a living example for them in the home. Teach them ways of righteousness and bring them under the teaching of the Sunday School so they will learn about the Lord.
• Pray for healing in family relationships, healing in marriages and for the desire to love and care for each other. Ask the Lord to rekindle the love for your spouse you had when you married.
• Pray and care for your parents who are widowed and help them as much as you can.
• Pray for God’s directions and guidance through this year…Ask for help in making decisions, whether major or minor (Proverbs 3:5-6).
• Pray and ask the Lord to protect your children in His blood as they go to school; while they are there and for a safe arrival home each day. 
• Pray and ask the Lord to give them the wisdom they need to learn the work before them, be obedient, to pay attention to their teachers, professors, etc., so they can make passing grades and be examples for other students.

• Pray the same for those who are college students and especially those who are away on campus. Pray that they will be kept out of Satan’s traps.
• Pray that our children won’t be persuaded by others to get themselves involved in doing things that are wrong.

PRAY FOR OUR CHURCH AND CHURCH FAMILY

• Pray for the pastor who is watching for our souls and that we will be obedient to him.  Pray that God will anoint him as he will continues to preach the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
• Pray for the official staff of the church…the Pastor, Deacons, Deaconess, Trustees, Finance Committee members, all ministry and auxiliary leaders that our lives will be pleasing to the Lord at all times.
• Pray for the ministry and auxiliary leaders that they will seek the Lord for guidance and help during the course of the year as they prepare their special services.
• Pray for the entire membership that they will come to the worship services so that they may grow spiritually, become more committed and live for the Lord.
• Pray that we will grow numerically by witnessing to others and inviting them to come to the worship services.
• Pray that the Lord will teach us how to give sacrificially to the church with our finances and trust Him more.
• Pray that the forgiveness and love in us will become contagious and spread like an epidemic in our church.
• Pray for the unsaved family members, neighbors, co-workers, friends and others.
• Pray for our sick and shut in, broken hearted, bereaved, those who are hospitalized, in nursing homes, at home, incarcerated, depressed and in need of employment.
•  Pray for all of our worship services that the presence of the Lord will be in our midst and for the Holy Spirit to have His way in all our services.
• Pray for the Sunday School, the morning worship service, the devotion, the choirs and the choir members that minister in song on Sunday mornings.

PRAY FOR YOURSELF

• Pray every day; ask for a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit to lead, direct, guide and keep you
• Pray and ask the Lord to help you be consistent in your prayer life.  Pray that you will walk worthy of the Lord pleasing Him at all times.
• Pray, asking God to help you make a special effort to attend Sunday School, Morning Worship and Tuesday evening Prayer Service….Commit your ways to the Lord. Set aside personal prayer time with the Lord and keep the appointed time you set.  God will meet you.
• Pray for special time to read and meditate on the Word of God.  Spend time studying the Sunday School lessons.
• Pray for spiritual growth so that you will become a strong, mature Christian. Pray that you keep your heart and mind clean and clear before the Lord.
• Pray for those whom you work with, especially your boss, co-workers and those you see every day.
• Pray for your neighbors and the neighborhood in which you live. Be an example; let them see Jesus in your life.
• Pray that your light will shine before them and pray that those who are not saved will be saved and come to know Jesus as Savior and Lord.
• Pray that you will draw closer to the Lord (Psalm 73:28; James 4:7-8).

•  Read Psalm 27, 91 and 121 every day and before you lie down at night, thank God for His goodness and care for you; be specific and sincere with the Lord.

We  Speak Gods Blessings

on each of you

This 2010 New Year.

May you find  the

Fullness and Completeness of God

in your life as you travel

through 2010.

2010 Theme

"Lord Do It  Again In 2010 "

Jeremiah 18:4 "And the vessel that he made

of clay was marred in the hand of
the potter: so he made it again another

vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it."

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Sunday Morning Worship

9:00 a.m. Church Prayer

9:30 Sunday School Class meet

9:30 New Members Orientation Class meets.

All new members are encouraged to attend.

11:00 A.M. Morning Worship Service.

We welcome the community to visit us and

participate in our worship experience.

We want to be found guilty

of worshiping the

True and Living God.

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