HOPE FROM HEAVEN

In an email from the North Carolina Family Policy Council, I read this:

We encourage you to take the opportunity to join individuals across our country in prayer for our nation on Thursday, May 1. This year, the theme is “pour out to the God of hope and be filled,” based on Romans 15:13, which says, "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

Is there hope for our world, for America, for our churches? Of course! Yet, not through human hands but with Heaven's help. Passionate prayers are heard and answered.

The email also stated:

As Christians, prayer is the strongest weapon we have in the fight for Truth. We invite you to join us in coming before God and interceding on behalf of our state and nation.

“We pour out our hearts for our nation, for the people and places, relationships and responsibilities the Lord has established: the Church, Family, Education, Business, Military, Arts, Entertainment, Media, and Government. May all who live, serve, and steward in these be filled with Your purpose, wisdom, strength, and truth.”

Here are the prayer events we know of in Haywood County:

• Lake Junaluska, 10 AM--at the amphitheater below the Cross at Lake Junaluska;

• Waynesville, Noon--in front of the Haywood County Courthouse;

• A Ladies' Prayer Gathering, 6 PM at the Haywood Baptist Association Mission Center, 175 Woodland Dr. Waynesville;

• Clyde, 6 PM--First Baptist Clyde.

Praying Together with Hope,

Dennis Thurman, AMS