June 10

Read Jude 1:20; Titus 2:2; 1 Tim. 5:1; Eph. 5:25, 6:4; Gal. 6:2; Eph. 4:15; Prov. 27:6

Lord, I lift up our Men to You. Use our church family to lift our men in their faith. Teach them to be in right relationship to You and each other, to love their families sacrificially and to instruct their children with patience. Encourage them to hold each other accountable as they carry each other’s burdens. May they speak the truth in love to each other even when it’s hard.

June 9

Read Titus 2:4, 5; Pro. 31:10; 1 Pet. 3:4, 5; Ps. 45:11; Lk. 10:38-42; Phil. 4:3

Lord, I lift up our Women’s Ministry. Mary Martha, Naomi Ruth, and Amy Purcell. Teach our women to be strong spirits who put their hope in You. Let this ministry produce women who feel Your passion for them and who choose to spend time at Your feet. Train them to contend for the gospel side by side with the men in our fellowship.

June 8

Read 2 Tim. 2:15; Col. 1:28; Dan. 2:47; Phil. 1:14; 2 Cor. 4:13

Lord, today I lift up our Christian Education, our children, and our teachers. May everyone who holds that position—pastors, Sunday school teachers, and HBF leaders—rightly divine Your word of truth. Let them admonish and teach with wisdom. Reveal the mysteries of Your word to them and encourage them to speak those mysteries courageously and fearlessly.

June 7

Read (2 Chron. 20:21-22; Jn. 4:23-24; Phil. 3:3)

Lord, I lift up our music director Jeff, our accompanists Jill and Nanette. I give thanks for our Praise Team, New Life Choir, and our Bells. May they rejoice in Your holiness and praise You out of that understanding. Help them lead us faithfully giving thanks for Your enduring love. Use their praise to defeat the enemy. Give them the courage to move forward when people make remarks about the music, the volume the selection. May we the receivers of their gifts and talents be the worshipers You are looking for who come to You in spirit and in truth. Let us glory together only in You, Jesus.

June 6

 Read 1 Thes. 1:5; Col. 4:5; 2 Cor. 2:15; 2 Cor. 4:4

June 5

Read Prov. 16:31; Titus 2:4; 1 Pet. 5:5; Job 12:12; Isa. 40:29, 31

Lord, I lift up the senior members of our congregation. Sew-in-Love, the Long Life Ministry. Thank You for every gray hair attained by righteous living. We are blessed by their example and ability to train us. Allow them the strength to understand when there are changes. Help us together to be humble as we benefit from each other. Help them receive the strength and power You’ve promised to the weary and weak. May they put their hope in You and be renewed in the process.

June 4

Read (Matt 18:3-4; Prov. 20:11; Eccl. 12:1; Ps. 71:17; 2 Tim. 2:22)

June 3

Matthew 7:7-8 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Read (Eph. 4:1; 2 Thes. 1:11; Ps. 132:9; Isa. 61:10; Rev. 3:4)

June 2

Luke 10:2 The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Read 1 Tim. 5:17; Acts 6:4; 1 Tim. 3:1-2; Titus 1:7

Today I pray for our deacons for our leaders. Help us respect and honor them as they direct the affairs of our church. May they wholeheartedly give their attention to prayer and ministry of the Word. Keep them above reproach, devoted to their families, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable and able to teach. May they be gentle and honest as they deal with us. Today I pray for Boon, Gwen, Jennifer, Bobby, Richard W,  Richard B, Vicky, Patti, Jeff,  Howard, Lena, Irma, Lanny, Martin, Patricia and Irene. May they be faith laborers, humble servants of God and positive influences upon our community.

“Gracious God, I put myself before you in this moment with desire. Open my eyes that I may see your promise all about me, open my ears that I may hear your words whispered to my deepest being.”

Dear Members and Friends,

First Chinese Baptist Church is now 131 years old. You as a church family have done some wonderful things for our Savior. But now we are at a pivotal moment in our life cycle as a fellowship. We are facing changing dynamics for our church in terms of staff, decline of younger families, a growing older fellowship and decreased giving. So how do we address such realities and make sure we are a vital, growing body that impacts its community and world through missions, discipleship and worship? We know the answer is always first to pray.

So I am asking that you take the month of June to pause and lift this ministry up for the next thirty days. I ask that you pray with your whole heart for our church family. Be committed to focusing for a few moments each day on our outreach, leadership, worship, maturity and giving.

Look at the world as Jesus told us to do. Be alert, be observant and pray about the life of your church family. Ask God to guide you as you pray. Look at your community the harvest is ripe. So how do we be the laborers God expects from us here in Fresno?

Be relentless in your prayer for the next thirty days. We have been granted access to the throne of grace. We have been taught to pray for God’s will to be done. We have been promised the help of his presence and his power. We can be relentless in asking God to work among us. We should never, never, never give up in our prayers. (Hebrews 4:16; Matthew 6:10; Matthew 28:19-20; Luke 18:1)

Pray lovingly. We pray because we love the Lord and want to accept His invitation to simply ask. We pray for this church family because we love each other. We pray because we love the lost and share his compassion for those who have no Shepherd.

Pray daily. There is no substitute for the daily exercise of contemplation, meditation and prayer. Ten minutes spent in the presence of God on behalf of this family, staff, leaders, teachers and volunteers will change our lives and ministry.

May God richly bless your time in prayer!

Rev. Dr. Danny L. Jack

 June 1

Luke 11:1 Lord, teach us to pray

Read 2 Cor. 4:1; 1 Cor. 4:1-3

Dear God today I pray for my pastor and his wife. Today they celebrate 40 years as a married and servant couple. Keep him from losing heart when ministry gets tough. Help him prove faithful with the things that you have entrusted to him. Teach him Your ways so that he knows You and finds favor with You as He leads us. Keep him open and honest before You and help him to represent the truth plainly. Arlean and he celebrate 19 years as our pastor and wife may they know we stand with them that we are accountable to them and together we can bring hope to our community and church family.