40 Days of Praying - Day 30

Empty Seats at Optimal Times: Pray for our efforts to create more seats for our growing family. Ask His blessing on the architects who are studying possibilities.

I feel like I'm getting in a rut. Every day I type the prayer subject, then cut and paste two or three scriptures, then write a few words then write out a prayer. I do that same thing every day. I know someone is reading, but I realized today that I do it that way because it is what I am used to. It makes it easier for me the check off my blog commitment.

Don't get me wrong. I enjoy doing it most days, but this morning it feels like a rut. When I think about this prayer, I think about the rut we get into as a church. You might not think it's a rut, but sometimes it feels like one to me. I honestly don't think much about what it must be like to try to connect with God. I know how I go about things. I have my routine. I have my friends and family that I do things with. I rarely think about what it must be like for others to try to get in my rut with me.

Empty seats isn't a prayer for space. It is a prayer for a people who think about what is required for those who aren't yet here to connect with God. It is an unselfish prayer. It is a prayer that is willing to change what we do and how we do it. Isn't that what Jesus did?

Philippians 2:5-8 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross!

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

Luke 19:10 "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."

O God, show us how we need to change to serve the people who do not yet know you. Give us the heart of Jesus. Let us be people who make adjustments so that more people might know you and love you and follow Jesus. Use the Sunday morning service to speak to people who are looking for Jesus. In His name we pray, amen.

Grace.