Invitation to Prayer

Faces of Children is an ecumenical prayer ministry under the auspices of First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. Our mission is to initiate ministries of prayer for children in churches, communities, and neighborhoods. In doing so, we seek to provide an opportunity for people of God to join together, learn about children and their needs throughout the world, and celebrate Christ's love (especially as it relates to children).

"The First Commandment"

God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children's hearts, freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole hear and soul and live, really live. Deuteronomy 30:6
The Message, by Eugene Peterson

"God greatly desires our love. It is the nature of all love to want to be acceptable and to be accepted. God longs to have the love of our whole heart."

"How can we love God with all our heart and soul? In the same way that we receive salvation-through faith alone. Paul says, 'I live my life in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me' (Galatians 2:20). When we take time to wait upon God and remember how God sought to win our love through the gift of God's Son, we shall realize that God has a strong longing for our love."

"Our hearts are blind. It is easy to forget that God longs for the love of God's child. Once we believe it, we will feel constrained to wait before God and ask for God's light to shine into our hearts. As the sun gives us its light, God is a thousand times more willing to give us the light of God's love."

"As we wait silently before God, we become strong in the assurance of faith. God, who longs for our love, is almighty and will fill us with God's love by the Holy Spirit."

"O God, I bow before you. Fulfill my desire, which is also your desire, that my heart may be filled with you. Amen."
The Best of Andrew Murray on Prayer, compiled by Edward A. Elliott

A message from Chris Laufer, Coordinator, Faces of Children

Greetings, Faces of Children Praying Friend,

This coming Wednesday, April 21, 2010, we will meet to pray for children at 11:30 a.m. in the Bride's Room at at First Presbyterian Church, Midland. Afterwards, we'll have lunch ($5) and fellowship. I hope you will be able to join us.

If you have prayer requests or celebrations about children or those who care for them, please send them to me at at claufer@facesofchildren.net, or give me a call. Thank you for your faithfulness in prayer for the children of our world!

Grace and peace,
Chris