Forty Days of Praying - Day 40

Building Program: Ask God's blessing on the construction of additional space to share Christ. Pray every room will be used to make and mature disciples of Jesus.

Selected verses from 1 Kings 8 when the building of the temple was completed—When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD. And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled his temple .

"O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below — you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way…

"But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day. May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven,

"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and confess your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live…

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple .

We have come to the end of our forty day commitment. For forty days we have prayed about the mission and ministry of the Golf Course Road Church. We have prayed for money and missions, small groups and sacrifice. When we started we didn’t know if we would be able to do all that we had planned. But after last Sunday we celebrated that God had moved in our hearts with the amazing commitment of 5.8 million dollars.

We have come to the last day So we build a building now. For the next year and a half we go through the hassle of remodeling and moving around the mess. Why? Because we want to impact the kingdom. We want heaven to move hearts. We want it to be more than bricks and mortar, we want it to be attractive and inviting for those who don’t now know Jesus. I love what Tim McGraw said last Sunday, “When you put people in it, bricks and mortar become something much greater, much more important.” We want God to touch kids and parents. Our God deserves more. So pray that it happens. Pray that God really uses this as a tool for his glory. Pray that we become a church that fulfills all that we have prayed about.

O God, use this building for your glory. We pray that you will bring thousands to yourself in these spaces. We pray for more disciples and more mature disciples. We pray for harvest workers, missionaries and ministers. We pray for you to launch a movement that changes our culture. May your name be famous. May your glory fill this place. For Jesus sake, amen.

Grace.