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W orld Church Sunday. 3 February 2013. www.sydenham methodist .org. Open to all women. Monday 4 February 2013 at 8.00 pm. Speaker : Rev Ken Lindsay President of the Methodist Church in Ireland ‘Guatemalan Project’. Global Vision. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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W orld Church Sunday
3 February 2013
Monday 4 February 2013 at 8.00 pm
Open to all women
Speaker:Rev Ken Lindsay
President of the Methodist Church in Ireland
‘Guatemalan Project’
Saturday 16th February, Craigavon - booking forms in church
Global VisionThe Methodist World Mission
Conference for all the family
Keynote speakers:David and Rhoda Nixon (returned
mission partners)
Choose from 13 seminarsPeace Between Faiths - SyriaHunger - The Gambia - Justice
Church in the CaribbeanWomen in Development
Debates - Ireland - Serving as SendersMission in Eastern Europe – China
AND MUCH MORE
koinoniaSunday 24 February 2013
Ferguson Hall5.30 – 7.30 pm
BOOK CLUBsydenham methodist church
Monday 11 March 20138.00 pm in the Manse
Abiding: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent
Book 2013 by Ben Quash.
Remember the Lord in everything you
do,
and he will show you the right
way.
Proverbs 3:6
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water
and asked,
"How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 2 to 5
pounds.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold
it."
He continued, "If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right
arm.
If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an
ambulance.
In each case, it's the same weight.
But the longer I hold it, the heavier
it becomes. "
"And that's the way it is with worries and problems.
If we carry our burdens all
the time, sooner or later, as the
burden becomes increasingly heavy,
we won't be able to carry
on.
As with the glass of water, you have to put it
down."
Then Jesus said,
Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you
will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30
“Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.
“Prayers Are Precious Jewels”
The Lord sees the good people and listens to their prayers.
1 Peter 3:12
We live in a loud world. To get someone’s attention is not an easy
task.He must be willing to turn down the
radio, turn away from the monitor,
close the book.
When someone is willing to silence everything else so that he can hear
us clearly, it is a privilege.
A rare privilege, indeed.
Our prayers are honoured in heaven as precious jewels.
Purified and empowered, the words rise in a
delightful fragrance to our Lord.
Our words do not stop until they reach the very throne of God.
Our prayer on earth activates God’s power in heaven, and “God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven”.
But this much is clear: actions in heaven begin when someone prays on
earth.
Our prayers move God to change the world.
We may not understand the mystery of prayer. We don’t need to.