Saturday Prayer Meeting

12/6/25 RBCL  Saturday Prayer time is at 9 AM at church and on Zoom – please plan to participate

Topic: RBCL Saturday Prayer Time
Time: Dec 6, 2025 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

We will have concentrated prayer for our church, our nation, missions,  spiritual growth, etc.

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Prayer Meeting Notes

12/6/25

  • Doxology:  Praise God: For Jesus Christ (II Cor 1:3-5)
    • For the gift of peace with God
    • For the Father of Mercies
    • For the God of all comfort
  • Thanksgiving: For being united in Christ (I Cor 1:4-9)
    • For being greatly blessed with the gospel,                   salvation, and spiritual gifts
  • Thankfulness: to God for His leadership (II Cor 2:14-16)
    • That God’s grace is sufficient in affliction (II Cor 12:8-10)
  • Requests: that God would give us a Spirit of Wisdom and revelation with Knowledge (Eph 1:17)
    • That God would enlighten our hearts (Eph 1:18)
    • That our love may abound more and more (Phil 1:9-10) 

Prayers for the ministry of the gospel

  • For missionaries: David Adams, Tiago Oliveira, Luke Peterson, Raul Torres
  • For local ministries: Today’s Choice
  • For persecuted Christians: Nigeria
  • Opportunities for witness individually and corporately

Prayers for the well-being of fellow believers

  • Spiritual, Health, Families, Work, Witness
  • Growth spiritually and in love
  • For increasingly meaningful worship
  • For a spirit of unity and service
  • For our witness in a non-Christian culture

Prayers for our country and the world

  • For leaders
  • For peace in Ukraine / Russia, Middle East, & elsewhere
  • For all to follow God’s righteousness

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving

Have a blessed Thanksgiving – No Zoom Bible Study this evening – Plan to attend our Thanksgiving Fellowship Dinner this Sunday following the Morning Service.

 “It is good to give thanks to the LORD And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning And Your faithfulness by night” – Psalm 92:1-2

“It is a great discipline to praise the Lord daily. Here the psalmist says to declare His love in the morning. In doing so we recognize everything that happens during the day is motivated by His love for us (good and bad). In the evening thank Him for His faithfulness during the day. 

Today is a good time to apply the truth of this verse to your prayer time.”  Kay Arthur

Happy Thanksgiving !

Here is a link to Alistair Begg’s thoughts on Thanksgiving.

5 Gifts Paul “Always” Thanked God For

Good Friday Service

Opening Prayer

“Alas! And Did my Savior Bleed” Hymn 195

Scripture Reading – Luke 23:26-43

“Jesus, Keep my Near the Cross” Hymn 704

Scripture Reading – Luke 23:44-56

Special Music – David MacMoyle

Sermon – Pastor Patrick Harrison

Galatians 6:14-16

“The Cross, Our Glory”

“Beneath the Cross of Jesus” Hymn 177

Closing Prayer

Learning Contentment at the Foot of the Cross

by J.C. Ryle

Would I learn how to be contented and cheerful under all the cares

and anxieties of life? What school shall I go to?

How shall I attain this state of mind most easily?

Shall I look at the sovereignty of God, the wisdom of God,

the providence of God, the love of God?

It is well to do so; but I have a better argument still.

I will look at Calvary and the crucifixion.

I feel that He who spared not His only begotten Son but delivered

Him up to die for me, will surely with Him give me

all things that I really need.

He that endured that pain for my soul, will surely not

withhold from me anything that is really good.

He that has done the greater things for me,

will doubtless do the lesser things also.

He that gave His own blood to procure me a home,

will unquestionably supply me with all that is really profitable for

me by the way. Ah, reader, there is no school for l

earning contentment that can be compared

with Calvary and the foot of the cross.

Thanksgiving & Idolatry

Jeffrey Stivason
 

Idolatry is when we replace the giver with the gift.  Idolatry is when we offer our thanks to the thing rather than the one who gave it. Idolatry turns thanksgiving into a selfish holiday that promotes my joy in a thing rather than deepens my relationship with a person. A Christian Thanksgiving is indeed a counter-cultural event.  It reminds us that we are to be thankful, most of all, to the Triune God who has given to us the most blessed gift of all, His only begotten Son, that in Him we might have life.

PlaceforTruth.org

Quarterly Prayer Meeting

9/7/24

•              Thanksgiving: For being united in Christ (I Cor 1:4-9)

o             For being greatly blessed with the gospel, salvation, and spiritual gifts

•              Doxology:  Praise God: For Jesus Christ (II Cor 1:3-5)

o             For the Father of Mercies

o             God of all comfort

•              Thanks to God for His leadership in triumph (II Cor 2:14-16)

•              For God’s grace that is sufficient in affliction (II Cor 12:8-10)

•              That God would give us a Spirit of Wisdom and revelation with Knowledge (Eph 1:17)

•              That God would enlighten our hearts (Eph 1:18)

•              That our love may abound more and more (Phil 1:9-10) 

For church concerns:

•              Health and well-being of our members

•              Financial well-being for members and church

•              Opportunities for witness individually and corporately

•              Growth spiritually and in love

•              For increasingly meaningful worship

•              For a spirit of unity and service

For national and international concerns:

•              For righteousness

•              For protection from persecution

•              For missionaries

•              For our witness in a non-Christian culture