BUILDING ONE ANOTHER UP THROUGH PRAYER
One of our responsibilities to one another is this from 1 Thessalonians 5:11 –
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” One way this can be done is through prayer for one another. Work your way through the church directory, through a list of those in your Sunday School
class or BodyBuilder, or a list of those who sit around you in worship. Then send a text message or email letting them know you prayed for them. If possible, let them know how you prayed for them. To that end, here are some great passages from the Bible to use in praying for other believers.
Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy...I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God. -- Philippians 1:4,9-11 (NLT)
We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. -- Colossians 1:9-12 (NIV)
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else...May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. -- 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 (NIV)
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. -- Ephesians 1:17-19 (NIV)
WEEKLY PRAYER UPDATE – August 26, 2026
Missions:
Senator Barnes & family – East Asia Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative for World Ventures
Stephen & Sabrina Marshall – church planting in France
Capstone Church, Helena, Montana – Caleb Groteluschen, pastor; Ben Quigg, worship leader
Lauren Cartwright, Caleb Bowman – BSM staffers at UNT and TWU
Juan Pablo and Sol Herrera – Hispanic ministry in Ponder; temporarily put on hold; they have been asked to return to the church they planted in Dallas and help them during a pastorless period
Church:
Training and start-up for Meals on Wheels
Needing several more volunteers for the preschool area on Sundays
Planning for starting Mother's Day Out beginning Sept. 14
Staff search for worship leader
This week’s worship service, Bible studies, and BodyBuilder groups
Personal Needs:
Spiritual awakening in our community, in our nation
Salvation -- Those on your "Who's Your One?" list
Gene Vaughan – recovering at home from surgery Wednesday for kidney stone and other issues
Bryan Hale – recovering at home from surgery on Monday to remove part of colon
Glenda Brooks – recovering at home following bladder surgery last week.
Steve Simpson's mother, Vel – recovering from surgery for a broken hip
Grief: Darrell Pope – death of his sister, just after Shelly's death
Sherry Vaughn – death from breast cancer; pray for her daughter, Shai, and Curtis Williams (Curtis is brother of Charlie W. and Debbi Stack)
Guy Stagner: at home recovering after hospitalization for pancreatitis, gallstones, breathing difficulty, and pneumonia, as well as installation of a pacemaker
Paula Haddix (former member) – was to have had kidney removal May 26, but postponed due to diagnosis of husband's cancer, for which it has been decided nothing can be done
Martha Wyatt
Jill Potter's infant grandson – being monitored at home now for seizures; awaiting appointment with neurologist
Kerr Broadstreet (Kim's brother) – undergoing more treatment for tumor in shoulder
Those in assisted living/nursing homes: Barbara Nofziger, Carolyn Gillespie, Bud Smith, Mary Alice Benton
Our government leaders
First responders
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” One way this can be done is through prayer for one another. Work your way through the church directory, through a list of those in your Sunday School
class or BodyBuilder, or a list of those who sit around you in worship. Then send a text message or email letting them know you prayed for them. If possible, let them know how you prayed for them. To that end, here are some great passages from the Bible to use in praying for other believers.
Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy...I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God. -- Philippians 1:4,9-11 (NLT)
We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. -- Colossians 1:9-12 (NIV)
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else...May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. -- 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 (NIV)
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. -- Ephesians 1:17-19 (NIV)
WEEKLY PRAYER UPDATE – August 26, 2026
Missions:
Senator Barnes & family – East Asia Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative for World Ventures
Stephen & Sabrina Marshall – church planting in France
Capstone Church, Helena, Montana – Caleb Groteluschen, pastor; Ben Quigg, worship leader
Lauren Cartwright, Caleb Bowman – BSM staffers at UNT and TWU
Juan Pablo and Sol Herrera – Hispanic ministry in Ponder; temporarily put on hold; they have been asked to return to the church they planted in Dallas and help them during a pastorless period
Church:
Training and start-up for Meals on Wheels
Needing several more volunteers for the preschool area on Sundays
Planning for starting Mother's Day Out beginning Sept. 14
Staff search for worship leader
This week’s worship service, Bible studies, and BodyBuilder groups
Personal Needs:
Spiritual awakening in our community, in our nation
Salvation -- Those on your "Who's Your One?" list
Gene Vaughan – recovering at home from surgery Wednesday for kidney stone and other issues
Bryan Hale – recovering at home from surgery on Monday to remove part of colon
Glenda Brooks – recovering at home following bladder surgery last week.
Steve Simpson's mother, Vel – recovering from surgery for a broken hip
Grief: Darrell Pope – death of his sister, just after Shelly's death
Sherry Vaughn – death from breast cancer; pray for her daughter, Shai, and Curtis Williams (Curtis is brother of Charlie W. and Debbi Stack)
Guy Stagner: at home recovering after hospitalization for pancreatitis, gallstones, breathing difficulty, and pneumonia, as well as installation of a pacemaker
Paula Haddix (former member) – was to have had kidney removal May 26, but postponed due to diagnosis of husband's cancer, for which it has been decided nothing can be done
Martha Wyatt
Jill Potter's infant grandson – being monitored at home now for seizures; awaiting appointment with neurologist
Kerr Broadstreet (Kim's brother) – undergoing more treatment for tumor in shoulder
Those in assisted living/nursing homes: Barbara Nofziger, Carolyn Gillespie, Bud Smith, Mary Alice Benton
Our government leaders
First responders