OCTOBER 2020 MBUMC FOCUS PRAYER

OCTOBER 2020 MBUMC FOCUS PRAYER

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

“Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, ‘“You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22:36-39 NLT)

25 A teacher of the Law came up and tried to trap Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to receive eternal life?” Jesus answered, “What do the Scriptures say? How do you interpret them?” The man answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’”

28 “You are right,” Jesus replied; “do this and you will live.” But the teacher of the Law wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

30 Jesus answered, “There was once a man who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when robbers attacked him, stripped him, and beat him up, leaving him half dead. It so happened that a priest was going down that road; but when he saw the man, he walked on by on the other side. In the same way a Levite also came there, went over and looked at the man, and then walked on by on the other side. But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon the man, and when he saw him, his heart was filled with pity.

34 He went over to him, poured oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them; then he put the man on his own animal and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him’, he told the innkeeper, ‘and when I come back this way, I will pay you whatever else you spend on him.”’

36 And Jesus concluded, “In your opinion, which one of these three acted like a neighbor toward the man attacked by robbers?” The teacher of the Law answered, “The one who was kind to him.” Jesus replied, “You go, then, and do the same.” (Luke 10:25-37 NLT)

Let us each love the Lord with all our heart, soul, strength and mind; and let
us love our neighbor as we love our self. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen

Lead me, Lord, lead me in thy righteousness, make thy way plain before my face.
For it is thou, Lord, thou Lord only that makes me to dwell in safety.
(Hymn 473, Psalms 5:8, 4:8)