Included in Christ

This week at Included in Christ:

• Thank you to all who joined us for prayer. Have a beautiful weekend! Praying that everyone can make it to church tomorrow!
• Matthew chapter 4 study, 9-29-26 link here. Thank you all so much for coming to Bible study! 🧡📖🙌
• Scotti’s Wednesday prayer link here. 🧡 Beautiful way to start the day in faith!
• Thank you for joining us for Monday morning prayer. Re-pray link here 🙌🙏🧡
• Matthew Bible study / The King has come: God with us! Link to YouTube playlist.
• Prayer list:
  • 🙏Justin had a successful surgery and is home already! Glory! We continue to pray, now for his post-op course. We trust You Lord! 🙌
  • 🙏Please keep Logan, Frankie, and Wendy in your prayers also. We’re praying for Logan to be able to talk in Jesus’ name, and to respond to his name and follow directions. God is able! We thank God for bringing Frankie though the fire, and we pray ongoing wholeness in Jesus’ name. Lord, thank You for negative scans! Please keep the appt with Dr. Afrin in your prayers. God, we trust You!
  • 🙏Praying healing for Alex (Dusty’s BFF) and his family as he undergoes medical work-up.
  • 🙏We’re praying for healing, restoration, rehabilitation: Rosalee Davis, Shirley, Joe Meade, Jason (Bob’s friend), and Ryan (Lissa’s friend’s nephew), & little Andrew (friend Vonnie’s son), Debbie Hesterbey, Corliss, Scotti, and Bob.
  • 🙏Please continue to pray for the loved ones grieving loss:
    • Brittany and Zach Wash are grieving the passing of Brittany’s beloved grandmother,
    • Kathy Brewster and her mother in the passing of Joy Lam,
    • the loved ones of Eric Cross, especially his widow Rachael and their children,
    • the children at Danielle and Hunter’s school following Ms. Johnson’s passing,
    • the Hooper, Green, and Davis families in the loss of a young cousin of Mama Earnie’s
  • 🙏For Mama Earnie, we’re praying that the Lord will continue to make a way while the constuction is occurring in her building, that He’ll keep her in her good health, give her wisdom to know when to come & go, and keep her in His perfect will.
  • 🙏Ongoing prayers in the cancer fights: Joel, Ericko, Margaret, and Vincent’s good friend. Bobo and Mariely also with new news of recurrence. We’re praising God for fantastic news of blood markers negative, successful surgery, and now 🙌 we just got word that Margaret’s PET scan was NEGATIVE. Also that Frankie’s scan was clean. We are rejoicing!! Thank You Lord!
    
• John taught us to believe in Jesus for eternal life. James taught us to live it out. In Colossians, Paul shows us that we are wholly complete in Christ. He is not One on a list of ten; He is supreme over all, sufficient for all, and preeminent in all things. 🙌 We will learn about the Kingdom in the Gospel of Matthew. This book holds the keys to kingdom greatness!
• Beautiful song! Cristy’s original: Abundant and Free / Lyrics here
• A word on trials in life:
  Jesus once sent a message to a church, describing a coming tribulation. This is in Revelation 2:10. He told the believers in Smyrna, “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer.” He described an upcoming 10 day period of tribulation, that Satan would bring. The purpose: “that you may be tested.”
  Let that sink in.
  I just re-read in Deuteronomy, as Mo retells the story, God humbled His people.
  Deuteronomy 8:2: The Lord led you in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger…
  Israel was tested in the wilderness.
  Jesus was tested in the wilderness.
  We’re tested constantly in life.
  He allowed His people to hunger. He humbled them. He tested them. The testing revealed whether they were fit to take the land. Taking the land of Canaan is symbolic of the inheritance of the kingdom. God allows us to go through things to determine if we’re trustworthy for responsibility in the kingdom.
  Just stay strong. God is with you. He sees everything you’re going through. He’s rewarding every single moment of faithfulness. It won’t last forever. And He’ll never allow on you more than you can bear.
  I Corinthians 10:13: No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
• Let us know if you want a t-shirt, and we’ll get one for you! Let us know if there’s a photo we can post to the website. We love our community!
• We’re going to clean up the website soon. Merch page, photos page, and will separate “prayer list” from “this week”. 🙌🙏🧡