Updates from our Prayer Gatherings Yesterday! Requests for prayer included.
Good Afternoon Ephesus Family,
We had two intimate prayer gatherings yesterday as the church came together to pray at 1:30pm and 6:00pm for a special time of prayer during our Forty Day Prayer Journey: Seeking God’s Will Together. Allow me to thank a few servant hearts who rose to the occasion to facilitate our prayer gatherings yesterday since I was home trying to overcome an illness. Jill Olson and Sue Staton teamed up to co-facilitate our 1:30pm prayer gathering, while Dougald McLaurin led the 6:00pm evening prayer gathering.
Some of the prayer requests aren’t listed from that time because of potential sensitivities (You must be present to be privy to those). Also missing from this list are the tremendous praise reports and testimonies of how God is working and moving around us and the great fellowship that was had by everyone during our gathered prayer. (Again, you must be present to be privy to those).
If you have additional prayer concerns, feel free to post them in the comments below this information on either Faithlife or Facebook. You can also email your requests to prayer.ephesusnc@gmail.com. If you have updates on these requests please post or email those as well.
Below are the requests for prayer that have been shared.
Prayer Requests from Wednesday’s 1:30pm and 6:00pm Prayer Gatherings. Please add these to your prayer list. Hopefully, I recorded everything correctly.
· Pray for our Pray and Go Ministry and Ministry Team Leaders. We have already visited many homes in our community and the response has been very favorable at this point.
· Continue to pray for Debbie Perry and family as they recover from Covid. They are improving and Danny has not gotten sick. Praise the Lord for that!
· Pray for Pam Peele. She tested positive for COVID yesterday morning. She is having mild sinus issues and congestion plus fatique, but nothing too serious at this point. Pray for Phil to remain COVID free as he remains in quarantine.
· Mrs. Pam asked us to remember to thank God for the faithful witness and encouragement of our church family every time we gather together.
· Janelle Kirkpatrick, relative of Pam Peele - bladder cancer, awaiting surgery and chemo which was delayed due to having COVID. Update: She has gone back to teaching, but is still awaiting her treatments.
· Ron Taylor, Sue Staton’s friend – Cancer
· Michael Valentine, Sue Staton’s Son-in-Law - Recovery from elbow surgery. Having pain due to his Neuropathy issues.
· Debbie Perry’s cousin Barbara had surgery for breast cancer and is having issues from the surgery. Also dealing with the post surgery blues. Update: She has received some treatment and was feeling better last week.
· Henry Henne, friend of the Sullivan’s – Massive Heart Attack, on life support. Things aren’t looking good. Update: Praise the Lord, Henry has had a miraculous turn and is at home recovering.
· Covid crisis in general.
· Craig and Linda Johnson as Linda battles Covid. Linda is doing better, but she is having a hard time getting her energy back. Continue praying for complete healing.
· Crystal Sullivan’s uncle, Mike Winstead and our Sister-n-Law and niece, Devin and Graysen Stewart. They all have Covid. Uncle Mike was admitted to the hospital yesterday with Covid related Pneumonia. He has a history of heart issues. Update: All are doing better as they continue to recover. Uncle Mike is now home from the hospital on Oxygen but recovering.
· David Harper’s Daughter, Elizabeth and her husband Austin Harrell, tested positive for Covid yesterday. Update: They are both recovering well and had mild cases.
· Tom May’s sister, Linda Roser, has Covid
· Toni Hughes – Kim May’s friend hospitalized with Covid. Update: Toni had gotten out of the hospital, but she still has a long road of recovery ahead of her. Praise the Lord for the improvements she has seen.
· Kim May would like to ask us to pray for both her Daughter-in-laws, that they would have healthy pregnancies.
· Dale Harper family, especially his son.
· Linda McLaurin wants us to pray for Pastors everywhere and that we would all have an intense hunger for the reaching those who don’t know Jesus as Lord and Savior.
· Continue to keep Dougald and Linda in your prayers for energy and health.
· Pray for the McLaurin’s daughter, Lisa. She is traveling from Pennsylvania to North Carolina today. Pray for safe travels.
· Emily Kicklighter, Crystal’s best friend, please pray for her as she continues to recover from Bone Marrow Transplant.
· Kimberly Kerivel has asked for a special prayer for Chris and his son, Liam. Update: God is moving.
· Judy Denton has asked for prayer for her back. She is having a burning pain in her lower back and has begun to go to Physical Therapy, as well as seeking other tests to determine the source of the pain. Update: Judy is seeing some relief to her back pain from the physical therapy. Praise the Lord and continue to pray for full recovery.
· Phil Peele asked a special prayer for his sister, Barbara Sharpe. She has Alzheimer’s and the family is concerned for her safety, especially while driving.
· Pray for Josephine Lamm as she recovers from her Hip injury. Update: Mrs. Jo is scheduled to be coming home on January 26th, Praise the Lord. She is so happy that she’ll be home by her birthday.
· Pray for David Harper and Joy Harper as they visit and tend to Mrs. Jo daily.
· Pray for Pastor Wayne, Crystal, Abigail, & Elizabeth. Update: I have been sick this week with either the Flu or a really bad Sinus bug. Three tests ruled out Covid-19. During the sickness, I had a bad reaction to Prednisone and had a very long and scary night with a racing heart rate and a high blood pressure. Please continue to pray for me. Everyone else is doing well. Abigail has had a little sore throat this week, but very minor thankfully.
· Debbie Perry asked us to be in prayer for our Deacons as they seek to serve our church during this season. David Harper and Phil Peele.
· Please continue to pray for the Rudy Roth family, Glen Tyson’s niece’s husband who passed into eternity on two Sunday’s ago.
· Sue Staton asked that we pray for her neighbor, Ann Richardson and her family. Her husband passed away on December 20th and she is having a hard time coping.
· Pray for safety and warmth for everyone during the winter weather coming our way. We will make a call about church by Saturday morning after we see what comes our way.
· Pray for Rhonda Faulkner’s Father-in-Law, Pete Faulkner. He is fighting Covid and is ready to give up. He is refusing hospital care and nutrition. Pray for healing and for the will to live. Hospice is caring for him.
· Rhonda’s Mother-in -Law has Pneumonia in the middle of all this and is not resting well herself. Also, Rhonda’s husband David, along with his brother Glen and wife Rebecca, all have Covid so Rhonda is quarantined away from them for the next 10 days. Pray for this family as they cope with all these struggles in the midst of the pandemic.
· Kim May’s Uncle, Paul Broome, passed away and if the weather permits, they will be traveling to Anderson, South Carolina on Monday to be with the family. Please keep them all in your prayers.
· Pray for Jill and Ken Olson. Pray that Ken’s health would continue to improve and God would be praised as a result.
Prayers for Biblical Revival and Revitalization
(Adapted from Gregory Reed Frizzell’s book, “Forty Days of Seeking God: Embracing a True Return to God.”p.7-8)
1. Pray for our Church family to have an immense deepening desire to seek to renew our First Love toward Jesus Christ.
3. Plead with God’s powerful manifest presence for a restraining of evil, discord, disunity brought about by sinful hearts and a great misuse of the tongue, as well as for a mighty outpouring of His Holy Spirit power.
(Ex. 33:15; 1 Kings 8:11; Isa. 58:1-7; Isa. 59:19; Zech. 4:6; Acts 1:8, 2:1-2, 4:31; 1 Tim. 5:13)
4. Beg God for a Supernatural Love and Unity to sweep across our families, our church family, our sister churches, and our denomination.
5. Pray for a zealous, burning, passionate pursuit of outreach, discipleship, and missions to sweep across each true believer on our church roll.
(Matt 24:14, 28:18-20; Luke 19:10; Acts 1:8; Rom. 9:1-3)
6. Pray for our church leaders to be filled with a sense of joy in their work, boldness in their preaching, ferventness in their prayer life, spiritual power in their personal interactions, and a strong reliance on the truth of God’s Word and the Holy Spirit’s guidance.
7. Pray for God to transform the hearts of those who are continuing to walk in sin, pursuing personal preferences, living in the nostalgia of the past, unable to embrace a new movement of the Spirit.
Updates from our Prayer Gatherings Yesterday! Requests for prayer included.
Good Afternoon Ephesus Family,
We had two intimate prayer gatherings yesterday as the church came together to pray at 1:30pm and 6:00pm for a special time of prayer during our Forty Day Prayer Journey: Seeking God’s Will Together. Allow me to thank a few servant hearts who rose to the occasion to facilitate our prayer gatherings yesterday since I was home trying to overcome an illness. Jill Olson and Sue Staton teamed up to co-facilitate our 1:30pm prayer gathering, while Dougald McLaurin led the 6:00pm evening prayer gathering.
Some of the prayer requests aren’t listed from that time because of potential sensitivities (You must be present to be privy to those). Also missing from this list are the tremendous praise reports and testimonies of how God is working and moving around us and the great fellowship that was had by everyone during our gathered prayer. (Again, you must be present to be privy to those).
If you have additional prayer concerns, feel free to post them in the comments below this information on either Faithlife or Facebook. You can also email your requests to prayer.ephesusnc@gmail.com. If you have updates on these requests please post or email those as well.
Below are the requests for prayer that have been shared.
Prayer Requests from Wednesday’s 1:30pm and 6:00pm Prayer Gatherings. Please add these to your prayer list. Hopefully, I recorded everything correctly.
· Pray for our Pray and Go Ministry and Ministry Team Leaders. We have already visited many homes in our community and the response has been very favorable at this point.
· Continue to pray for Debbie Perry and family as they recover from Covid. They are improving and Danny has not gotten sick. Praise the Lord for that!
· Pray for Pam Peele. She tested positive for COVID yesterday morning. She is having mild sinus issues and congestion plus fatique, but nothing too serious at this point. Pray for Phil to remain COVID free as he remains in quarantine.
· Mrs. Pam asked us to remember to thank God for the faithful witness and encouragement of our church family every time we gather together.
· Janelle Kirkpatrick, relative of Pam Peele - bladder cancer, awaiting surgery and chemo which was delayed due to having COVID. Update: She has gone back to teaching, but is still awaiting her treatments.
· Ron Taylor, Sue Staton’s friend – Cancer
· Michael Valentine, Sue Staton’s Son-in-Law - Recovery from elbow surgery. Having pain due to his Neuropathy issues.
· Debbie Perry’s cousin Barbara had surgery for breast cancer and is having issues from the surgery. Also dealing with the post surgery blues. Update: She has received some treatment and was feeling better last week.
· Debbie Peace’s aunt, Sandra LaBlanche’, non-cancerous brain tumor, will require surgery.
· Henry Henne, friend of the Sullivan’s – Massive Heart Attack, on life support. Things aren’t looking good. Update: Praise the Lord, Henry has had a miraculous turn and is at home recovering.
· Covid crisis in general.
· Craig and Linda Johnson as Linda battles Covid. Linda is doing better, but she is having a hard time getting her energy back. Continue praying for complete healing.
· Crystal Sullivan’s uncle, Mike Winstead and our Sister-n-Law and niece, Devin and Graysen Stewart. They all have Covid. Uncle Mike was admitted to the hospital yesterday with Covid related Pneumonia. He has a history of heart issues. Update: All are doing better as they continue to recover. Uncle Mike is now home from the hospital on Oxygen but recovering.
· David Harper’s Daughter, Elizabeth and her husband Austin Harrell, tested positive for Covid yesterday. Update: They are both recovering well and had mild cases.
· Tom May’s sister, Linda Roser, has Covid
· Toni Hughes – Kim May’s friend hospitalized with Covid. Update: Toni had gotten out of the hospital, but she still has a long road of recovery ahead of her. Praise the Lord for the improvements she has seen.
· Kim May would like to ask us to pray for both her Daughter-in-laws, that they would have healthy pregnancies.
· Dale Harper family, especially his son.
· Linda McLaurin wants us to pray for Pastors everywhere and that we would all have an intense hunger for the reaching those who don’t know Jesus as Lord and Savior.
· Continue to keep Dougald and Linda in your prayers for energy and health.
· Pray for the McLaurin’s daughter, Lisa. She is traveling from Pennsylvania to North Carolina today. Pray for safe travels.
· Emily Kicklighter, Crystal’s best friend, please pray for her as she continues to recover from Bone Marrow Transplant.
· Kimberly Kerivel has asked for a special prayer for Chris and his son, Liam. Update: God is moving.
· Judy Denton has asked for prayer for her back. She is having a burning pain in her lower back and has begun to go to Physical Therapy, as well as seeking other tests to determine the source of the pain. Update: Judy is seeing some relief to her back pain from the physical therapy. Praise the Lord and continue to pray for full recovery.
· Phil Peele asked a special prayer for his sister, Barbara Sharpe. She has Alzheimer’s and the family is concerned for her safety, especially while driving.
· Pray for Josephine Lamm as she recovers from her Hip injury. Update: Mrs. Jo is scheduled to be coming home on January 26th, Praise the Lord. She is so happy that she’ll be home by her birthday.
· Pray for David Harper and Joy Harper as they visit and tend to Mrs. Jo daily.
· Pray for Pastor Wayne, Crystal, Abigail, & Elizabeth. Update: I have been sick this week with either the Flu or a really bad Sinus bug. Three tests ruled out Covid-19. During the sickness, I had a bad reaction to Prednisone and had a very long and scary night with a racing heart rate and a high blood pressure. Please continue to pray for me. Everyone else is doing well. Abigail has had a little sore throat this week, but very minor thankfully.
· Debbie Perry asked us to be in prayer for our Deacons as they seek to serve our church during this season. David Harper and Phil Peele.
· Please continue to pray for the Rudy Roth family, Glen Tyson’s niece’s husband who passed into eternity on two Sunday’s ago.
· Sue Staton asked that we pray for her neighbor, Ann Richardson and her family. Her husband passed away on December 20th and she is having a hard time coping.
· Pray for safety and warmth for everyone during the winter weather coming our way. We will make a call about church by Saturday morning after we see what comes our way.
· Pray for Rhonda Faulkner’s Father-in-Law, Pete Faulkner. He is fighting Covid and is ready to give up. He is refusing hospital care and nutrition. Pray for healing and for the will to live. Hospice is caring for him.
· Rhonda’s Mother-in -Law has Pneumonia in the middle of all this and is not resting well herself. Also, Rhonda’s husband David, along with his brother Glen and wife Rebecca, all have Covid so Rhonda is quarantined away from them for the next 10 days. Pray for this family as they cope with all these struggles in the midst of the pandemic.
· Kim May’s Uncle, Paul Broome, passed away and if the weather permits, they will be traveling to Anderson, South Carolina on Monday to be with the family. Please keep them all in your prayers.
· Pray for Jill and Ken Olson. Pray that Ken’s health would continue to improve and God would be praised as a result.
Prayers for Biblical Revival and Revitalization
(Adapted from Gregory Reed Frizzell’s book, “Forty Days of Seeking God: Embracing a True Return to God.”p.7-8)
1. Pray for our Church family to have an immense deepening desire to seek to renew our First Love toward Jesus Christ.
(Rev. 2:1-4; Matt. 5:6, 44, 22:37-39; Phil. 2:13; 1 John 4:7-11, 20; Rev. 3:15)
2. Cry out for a deep brokenness, God-seeking reverential fear, and humble repentance too sweep our church family as a whole.
(Ps. 51:17; Prov. 28:13; John 14:15; 2 Cor. 7:1, 10; Eph. 5:26-27; Hebrews 12:14)
3. Plead with God’s powerful manifest presence for a restraining of evil, discord, disunity brought about by sinful hearts and a great misuse of the tongue, as well as for a mighty outpouring of His Holy Spirit power.
(Ex. 33:15; 1 Kings 8:11; Isa. 58:1-7; Isa. 59:19; Zech. 4:6; Acts 1:8, 2:1-2, 4:31; 1 Tim. 5:13)
4. Beg God for a Supernatural Love and Unity to sweep across our families, our church family, our sister churches, and our denomination.
(John 13:34-35, 15:12, 17:20-22; Acts 2:1, 42-47, 1 Cor. 1:10; Eph. 4:29-32)
5. Pray for a zealous, burning, passionate pursuit of outreach, discipleship, and missions to sweep across each true believer on our church roll.
(Matt 24:14, 28:18-20; Luke 19:10; Acts 1:8; Rom. 9:1-3)
6. Pray for our church leaders to be filled with a sense of joy in their work, boldness in their preaching, ferventness in their prayer life, spiritual power in their personal interactions, and a strong reliance on the truth of God’s Word and the Holy Spirit’s guidance.
(Heb. 13:17; 1 Cor. 2:4; 1 Tim. 3:1-2; 2 Tim. 1:6-7)
7. Pray for God to transform the hearts of those who are continuing to walk in sin, pursuing personal preferences, living in the nostalgia of the past, unable to embrace a new movement of the Spirit.
(Mark 1:14-15, 2:17, 2:21-22; 1 Tim. 1:18-20; 2 Tim. 3:1-9)
I hope you all have a wonderful remainder of your week. God bless you all,
Joyfully His,
Pastor Wayne