When You Pray

Pastor Stewart and Family

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The Parking Lot Bandits ( Purse Snatchers)

Our Deployed Soldiers Homebound

Elseda Haughton

Valetta McNally

Agnes Kirkland

Gloria Chin Francis

Mary Lee

Urcelena Lucas

Arthniel and Mervita Smith

Lurlene Harris

Victoria Cassie

Hyacinth Carnegie

Zareth Heslop

Grace Whilby Healing/Hospitalized

Leonie Bryant

Valetta McNally

Beverly Henry

Pauline Bown

Evadney Douglas

Leonie Green

Elder Leonard Miller Bereaved

Algon Robinson and Family – lost his father

Barbara Loussiant– lost her father

Vernice Horton-lost her grandfather

Melinda Lightbourne– lost her father

Congratulations to the

Graduating Class of 2011

Graduation Banquet

Saturday, June 18 at 7:00pm

Venue: Newport Beach Re-

sort

Adults: $50.00

Tickets on sale in the Lobby

Please join us in a

time of celebration with our

1. Jhaneal Hector

2. Angelica Edie 3. Tonya Jackson 4. Malkia Garnes

5. Briyanna Sloss 6. Bianca Mcfarlane

7. Keneil Landells

8. Nemoya Ramcharan 9. Jaques Pierre

10. Owesha Henry 11. Lauren Kidd 12. Breanna Watson

13. Briana Williams 14. Christopher Malcolm (WPB) 15. Samuel Lewis (WPB)

16. Andre Jeffery 17. Da-Neil Christopher

18. Valbert Bailey

19. Dilique Anderson

PRAYER IS SURRENDER

We love Lincoln because he lost himself in the cause of freedom - so he finds himself as the

Great Emancipator. All life comes to one conclusion:

We lose the ―I-that-is‖ in order to find the ―I-that-ought-to-be.‖ This is done by a once-and-

and-for-all surrender, but it is also done as a continual process. The continual process is prayer.

Prayer is fundamentally and essentially self-surrender. I once asked Kagawa, the great

Japanese Christian, what was the first thing in prayer, and he answered, ―Surrender.‖ He was

right.

But the idea of surrender cuts across the usual idea of prayer as a method of obtaining from

God your wishes. That idea is self assertion. This is self- surrender. Then is prayer passive

submission? A denial of the will to live? Is it the will to die? Far from it. Prayer is a will to die on

the level of a defeated, empty, ineffective, short circuited life, and a will to live on the level of a

victorious, full, effective, and cosmic- connected life.

It is self- renunciation in order to find self-realization. Your petty self is renounced in order that

your potential self might be realized. Prayer is the wire surrendering to the dynamo, the flower

surrendering to the sun, the child surrendering to education, the patient surrendering to the

surgeon, the part surrendering to the whole- prayer is surrendering to Life.

A branch not surrendered to the vine, but cut off and on its own, is not free; it is dead. A person

who doesn’t pray isn’t free; he is futile. He is a blind man who won’t surrender his blindness to

the surgeon in order to see. He is free- to remain blind.

O God, my Father, forgive me that I fear to surrender my will to thy saving will. I am afraid - of life. Help me, as I begin this adventure of prayer, that it may be no side- line activity. May it become me ,that I may become thee. For I must have thy life to live. In Jesus name. Amen Gracious father, I thank thee that power, power, power is open to me if I but take it. Help me to empty my hands of trifling toys that I may take, take, take the things Thou art offering me-release, power, victory. Why should I do myself and others this wrong?—weak when I might be strong, a victim when I might be a VICTOR! Amen.

Gracious Father, I come to Thee to learn to receive. In Thy presence I let down all the bars of my being and let Thee into every fiber, every brain cell, and every cranny of my being. As the blood courses through my body, cleansing and healing and restoring and empowering, so Thou art going through me-body, and soul-cleansing, healing, restoring, empowering. I thank Thee. Amen.

Gracious Christ, teach me to pray. For if I fall down here, I fall down everywhere- anemia spreads through my whole being. Give me the mind to pray, the love to pray, the will to pray. Let prayer be the aroma of every act, the atmosphere of every thought, my native air. In thy name. Amen

SUNDAY First Fruits Prayer 09:30 am Christian Education 10:00 am Morning Worship 11:15 am Evening Prayer 06:30 pm Evening Worship 07:00 pm MONDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am EVENING PRAYER 06:00pm TUESDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am Fasting and Prayer 10:00 am EVENING PRAYER 06:00pm WEDNESDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am Staff Devotion 10:00 am PENTAB ACADEMY 07:00 pm GRADUATION THURSDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am EVENING PRAYER 06:00pm FRIDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am Communion & Prayer 09:00 pm SATURDAY OUTDOOR CLEAN – UP 09:00 am Team 2

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES 09:00 am Team 1

JUNE EVENTS June 6 -1 0

Fasting and Prayer

June 8

Pentab Academy

Graduation

June 1 0 Communion

June 13 Beautification Night Out

June 18 Summit & Graduation

Banquet

June 19

Father’s Day

June 22-26

Focus on Jesus Summit 2011

18415 NW 7th Avenue Miami Gardens, FL 33169 (305) 651-9696

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