Let’s focus this week on continuing to develop a healthy prayer life, not just as individuals, but as a body.  It is a critical element to personal life and church life.
As a part of this focus, I want to invite you to become a part of our group that meets for prayer on Wednesday evenings at 7:00. The time is spent just in prayer for the many needs on our prayer list and other requests that arise.

"No man is greater than his prayer life.”  -- Leonard Ravenhill
 
"A church’s commitment to prayer is one of the greatest determiners of its effectiveness in ministry."  -- John Onwuchekwa  
 
“One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.”   -- Luke 18:1  (NLT)

"They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."   -- Acts 2:42  (NIV)
 
"On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.   When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. . . .  After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken.  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly."  -- Acts 4:23-24, 31  (NIV)

Pray that . . .

• Each one of us will experience a growing desire to pray, alone and with others.
• As a church, we, like the early church, will devote ourselves to prayer.
• We will never grow weary in prayer but will persist in crying out to God.
• Each one of us will grow in praying effectively, incorporating the Word of God.

WEEKLY PRAYER UPDATE –  February 4, 2026
Missions:
Stephen & Sabrina Marshall –  church planting in France
Capstone Church, Helena, Montana – Caleb Groteluschen, pastor; Ben Quigg, worship leader
Juan Pablo and Sol Herrera –  Hispanic ministry in Ponder
Senator Barnes & family –  East Asia Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative for World Ventures
Pray for believers in Iran – it is a very dangerous time for them.
Pray for the persecuted church in China -- China's crackdown on underground churches intensifies with new arrests

Church:
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
Martha Wyatt –  now in rehab, recovering from cracked vertebrae in neck from fall in her home
Justin McClain – hospitalized in very serious condition due to his cancer
Grief:  Family & friends of Caden Nowicki – PHS senior, died of severe head injury
          Jerry Townsend & family – death of his mother
Shelly Pope –  has begun new chemo treatment – Pray specifically that God will guide the chemicals directly to tumors in her liver
Chary Horton –  has been dealing with an E. coli infection
Halle Deaton (25 yr old former member from Krum)   – recovering well from surgery related to breast cancer
Tommy Bean –  needing renewed strength following a recent mini-stroke
Praise! -- Randy Ramey (He & wife, Elise, are among our newest members) – received new kidney in Arizona, is doing well; should return home soon
Steve Simpson –  seeking to have stoma surgery scheduled soon
Gary Carrington –  entering into hospice care for his cancer in multiple organs
Hank and Susan Quigg – pray for their recovery from house fire and their rebuild over the next six to eight months
Donna Nuckels (Don's sister-in-law) – auto-immune disorder caused by Covid vaccine; no cure, but symptoms being controlled; doing better
Those in assisted living/nursing homes:  Barbara Nofziger, Carolyn Gillespie, Mary Alice Benton

Our government leaders
First responders