MEN OF FAITH, LOVE AND PRAYER

Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t—not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.

19-20 My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God’s truth, don’t write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God. (James 5:16-20 MSG)

• Praise God for our Heavenly Father’s great love for us, and for our Fathers and the men who have led us back towards Jesus. 
• Pray God would continue to raise up men of faith, love and prayer at The Grove. May we see mighty answers to prayer from righteous men calling on the Lord. 
• Pray for fathers to know God’s wisdom and strength as they lead their families. And pray for spiritual fathers to model and teach younger men to follow Jesus and fight the good fight of the faith.
• Pray that men would confess sin to one another and find forgiveness and healing through confession and humility. May God move in new ways among our men.
• Pray for fresh vision for future Men's ministry at The Grove in the new building. Pray the Holy Spirit would show us how to encourage faith, deepen relationships and lead men to salvation. 
• Pray for men in their workplaces to be salt and light – pray for a bold witness.
• Pray that men would encourage each other and build each other up in Christ.
• Pray that men would discover their gifts and use them to serve Christ and fulfil their purpose. 
• Pray for those men who are struggling with either health, relationships in family or work to experience God’s healing and receive a new vision for the future.
• Pray that many more men would join us and find Christ. Pray for our men to go after men wandering away and draw them back to God.
• Pray for David Brown as a dad and missionary to know God’s strength and wisdom.