Serve, Work and Transform: PPL Enews: Thank you for praying for PPL! New Call to Prayer & Calendar inside

Sunday, May 3, 2020

PPL Enews: Thank you for praying for PPL! New Call to Prayer & Calendar inside

Life Support Prayer Calendar

Dear Prayer Team Member,

Seemingly overnight, “normal life” has been redefined throughout the world by the Covid-19 pandemic. Things we took for granted – like handshakes, hugs and toilet paper – have disappeared, leaving even the most resilient adrift and disoriented. Things we never feared before have come to stay for awhile. Adding to the general unease are troubling conversations among ethicists, medical providers and social media pundits about which people are more vulnerable than others . . .

Read the New Call to Prayer: Jesus Doesn't Triage

John 4:46-54 (NRSV)

Then he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my little boy dies.” Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.” The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household. Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

May 3-9, 2020

1. Pray that medical providers will see every individual as valuable and allocate life-saving resources in just ways without regard to age or ability. May they be humble as servants of God and pray in faith for God’s help when medical knowledge is not enough to save the most vulnerable.

2. Ask God to expose the lie that says abortion is “essential health care” and to cause abortion supporters to see the falsity of protecting life by social distancing while taking lives through abortion.