Archive for November, 2017
This Week at Cross Church | Big Day This Sunday
Big Day on Sunday at Cross Church
This Sunday, November 5, we will have a BIG DAY at Cross Church. Please invite your friends, families, and people you meet this week. It will be a huge day in worship and our Small Groups Ministry. You will not want to miss Sunday, November 5.
“Home for the Holidays” Series Begins Sunday
Home for the Holidays is a 7-week series on the family on every campus at Cross Church. It will be biblical, practical, creative, and helpful to each member of our fellowship from the youngest to the oldest. This will also give you several weeks to invite your friends who do not know Christ. Every family member needs encouragement and inspiration. We believe this series will help you.
Support our Blessing Basket Ministry Now
For 25 years, Cross Church has blessed local families who may not have a meal for the holidays. The members of Cross Church have given, provided food, cared for children, counseled, carried groceries, and loved on the people of Northwest Arkansas through this ministry for 25 years. This ministry relies on you. We need you once again, Cross Church. We need you to sponsor one or more families by donating a Blessing Basket. We need you to volunteer to assemble baskets and help on distribution day. It cannot happen without you! Find more information, sign up to volunteer, and donate here.
Four Prayer Priorities for America Through the National Day of Prayer
Yesterday, in my role as President of the National Day of Prayer, I wrote about four prayer priorities for America. Please take a look at them here, print them, and talk to God about our nation daily or weekly. This prayer list would be great to use with your family, small group, or even your work place. Let’s pray for America and teach others to do so as well. You can also sign up to join the National Day of Prayer newsletter so you can keep up with what is going on and how you can pray.
See You Sunday,
Ronnie W. Floyd
Four Prayer Priorities for America in November 2017
How will you pray for America in the month of November? Imagine what could happen if thousands across America and the world would unite in prayer for America over the same prayer priorities.
Whether you pray daily or weekly for our nation, please join us in praying with the authority of the Scriptures for these four priorities for America:
1. Appeal to God for the leaders of America to come together to provide strategic leadership in this hour.
First of all then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 1 Timothy 2:1-2
- Father, we appeal to You for our President and Vice President, members of his Cabinet, along with the members of both the House and the Senate to make decisions that will lead toward a more peaceful and orderly America.
- Lord, we also ask that these leaders would lead us to ways that more represent You and Your ways; including decisions that will lead toward the dignity and sanctity of all human life from conception until death.
- Lord God, may these leaders provide ways for our nation to be secure from terrorism inside and outside of the borders of America.
2. Ask God to provide discernment and wisdom for our leaders about these critical issues before America.
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—it will be given to him. James 1:5
- Give them wisdom about tax reform.
- Give them wisdom about North Korea.
- Give them wisdom about healthcare.
- Give them wisdom about immigration reform.
- Give them wisdom about Russia.
- Give them wisdom about racial tensions.
- Give them wisdom about how to assist those who are facing the challenges after the national disasters of hurricanes and wildfires.
- Give them wisdom over all national security issues.
- Give them wisdom to make laws and policies that preserves religious liberty and forwards the sanctity and dignity of all human life.
- Give them wisdom regarding the drug issues, especially regarding the opioid epidemic.
- Give us wisdom so that we may have the knowledge to work through these critical issues and pray for all in need.
- Generously give God’s wisdom to all leaders and Americans.
3. Call out to God for all those in need right now in America.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. He comforts us in all of our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
- Lord, bring comfort to those who lost loved ones in the attack in New York City.
- Lord Jesus, heal those who are recovering from the attack in New York City.
- Lord, bring comfort to those who lost loved ones in the shooting in Las Vegas.
- Father, heal those who are recovering from the shooting in Las Vegas.
- God, bring comfort to those who have lost loved ones through all of the hurricanes and wildfires.
- Lord Jesus, heal those who are recovering from injuries experienced in hurricanes and wildfires.
- Father, minister relief to all those who are recovering losses from their homes and businesses due to these disasters.
- Lord, give resources to all who are providing relief to those in need.
- Jesus, please comfort those who lost loved ones in the military and who worked as first responders.
- Father, please protect all those who are serving our nation as military and first responders across the world and within our nation.
4. Believe God with us as we move and work toward the 2018 National Day of Prayer on May 3, 2018.
“Ask and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
- Father, call thousands and thousands of people to lead observances of the National Day of Prayer in their communities.
- Lord, call thousands of pastors, churches, and hundreds of denominations and ministries to lead observances of the National Day of Prayer in their communities.
- Lord Jesus, call thousands of leaders in our communities to lead observances of the National of Day of Prayer in their communities.
- Father, call thousands of leaders to lead observances of the National Day of Prayer in their businesses.
- Lord, move upon people from all over the country to support the National Day of Prayer on May 3, 2018, but also in prayer now and with the provision of resources to make this ministry happen financially.
- Father, give Dr. Ronnie Floyd and the staff team of the National Day of Prayer God’s wisdom and power in all decision making.
I appeal to each of you to have numerous people join you personally, in and through prayer ministries, as well as through your churches and denominations, in praying for America.
Now is the Time to Lead and to Pray for America,
Dr. Ronnie W. Floyd