Even as advice and measures keep changing, there are powerful ways people of faith can help the community through COVID-19.
Faith
Through prayer, we can access a bank whose capital is absolutely unlimited and can meet all of our needs. Prayer unlocks the bank of heaven.
In a relationship with Jesus we can have many life-changing experiences, but people’s opinions can instil fear which prevents us from sharing about them.
These are testing times. Where will we find the inner resources to cope with the inherent anxieties ahead and rise to consider others? This prayer may help.
No matter how painful world challenges are at the time, these things pass, but the long term legacy on behaviours and society often remains.
This is our time to think not about ourselves, but about our neighbours. Many of whom are scared, and will only grow more so as the virus spreads.
How did Christianity travel across the globe? Because people decided to take the message of Jesus to the ends of the earth.
Jesus wasn’t interested in their religious rituals or their religious pronouncements. Above everything else, Jesus was interested in mercy.
True freedom is the knowledge that Jesus has triumphed over sin to set us free. We each have weaknesses and when we try to tackle these on our own we fail.
When he was 51 years old, Mike prayed his first prayer in 35 years, to a God whose existence he was quite uncertain about… but he prayed all the same.