OCTOBER 2018 MBUMC FOCUS PRAYER

You are invited to join the Prayer Ministry team in praying this focus prayer.

Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with
Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
Romans 12:4-5 NLT

O Lord, you made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me
together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous. (Psalm 139:13-14) Each one of us is fearfully and
wonderfully made. The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up
one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. Some of us are Jews and some of us
are not, some of us are slaves and some of us are free. But we were all baptized to
become one body through one Spirit. And we were all given the one Spirit. So there
are many parts, but only one body. (1 Corinthians 1212-13, 20 NLT/ERV)
The apostle Paul spoke to the believers in Ephesus, and also to us saying: I
beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.
Let us always be humble and gentle, patient with each other, making
allowance for each other’s faults because of our love. Let us make every effort to
keep ourselves united in the Spirit, binding ourselves together with peace. For there
is one body and one Spirit, just as we have been called to one glorious hope for the
future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all. The
Lord God is over all, in all, and living through all. (Ephesians 4:1-6 NLT)
Let us speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like
Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.. He makes the whole body fit
together perfectly. (Ephesians 4:15-16a NLT)
Let us clothe ourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect
harmony. And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in our hearts. For as
members of one body, we are called to live in peace. And let us always be thankful.
(Colossians 3:14-15 NLT) In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

One bread, one body, one Lord of all, one cup of blessing which we bless.
And we, though many throughout the earth,
we are one body in this one Lord.

Gentile or Jew, servant or free, woman or man, no more. Refrain
Many the gifts, many the works, one in the Lord of all. Refrain
H620, words & music by John B. Foley, 1978