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Knowing God by Praying the Names of God ... to Know His name is to know His character and who He is.  

Pray: Spirit of Christ

"You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. An if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ". Romans 8:9

Prayer Requests:

• For Spiritual Revival.
• The grace to live out our faith.
• For FIPC Pastor and family, Staff and families and Elders and families. 
• For our Adult Overseas Mission Trip Planning Task Force.
• For families and individuals who are hurting.
• For marriages that are hurting.
• Eric Berger in Kuwait and his family here at home.
• For families and friends struggling with drug and alcohol abuse and addition.
• For our daughter McKenzie studying in Italy for the summer semester.
• That the Rogers family will follow the will of God always and in all ways.
• For me and my family during our divorce.
• I would like to pray for my brother, Connor, who lives with my grandma.  He is taking his big test for college and I want him to not be nervous but to be ready.
• For George R., pray for his burns to heal.
• All service men and women in harm's way.
• For my mother, Lorraine who suffers from severe Parkinson's disease.
• America, mom, dad, Brittany, Nikki, Allison, me in my game Monday.
• Murray McDonald, continued healing.
• For Greg's grandchildren. A healthy grandson due in October.
• Friend's healing from minor surgery.  For employment opportunities.
• For Brittany to find her way back to Christ.
• House in TN to sell.
• Continued increase and new folks and leaders, committee members.  Pra for guidance for new Elders.
• Safe travel.

 Praise / Thanks:

• Thank you for saying the Lord's Prayer.  
• Great music.
• Awesome series!
• Neal for all his accomplishments; Alexis and Jason on their wedding; Colton for potty training.
• Jesus is the best, he truly changed my life.  He is the best person that came into my life.  There is not church like this one.
• Riley is well and learning to sign.  She is a precious 4 year old.  God is so good.
• Celine, finding peace in mother's passing.
• No water/storm damage from T.S. Debby.
• God has truly blessed us this week.  We love our church family.
• Safe trip; safety during tropical storms; new visitors.

My wife recently retired from teaching. Several years ago, when she was teaching preschool, a little guy was enrolled who was just barely old enough to qualify. The parents and my wife were concerned that he might not be ready for school.

The first day during recess, the little guy came up to my wife and said, "Teacher, this school is hard!"

My wife knelt down to hear his concerns and asked, "Why do you think school is hard?"

He looked at her and rubbed his forehead, "Because when you bump into it, it hurts!"

Everyone knows I'm a stickler for good spelling. So when an associate e-mailed technical documents asking me to "decifer" them, I had to set him straight.

"Decipher is spelled with a 'ph', not an 'f'," I wrote. "In case you've forgotten, spell checker comes free with word processing program."

A minute later his reply: "Must be dephective."

We were listening to a lecture on psychic phenomena in our Comparative Religions course. Our instructor told us about a woman who contacted police working on a missing-persons case. "She gave eerily detailed instructions on where to find the body," the teacher said. "In fact, the detectives did find the body just as she had described. Now what would you call that kind of person?"      While the rest of us pondered the question, a sheriff's officer taking the course raised his hand and replied, "A suspect."      ---------      A second grader came home from school and said to her mother, "Mom, Guess what? We learned how to make babies today."      The mother, more than a little surprised, asked fearfully, "That's interesting. How do you make babies?"      "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'."      ---------      While making rounds, a doctor points out an X-ray to a group of medical students. "As you can see," she says, "the patient limps because his left fibula and tibia are radically arched. Michael, what would you do in a case like this?"      "Well," ponders the student, "I suppose I'd limp too."