CityPrayer for 9.29.11

If you are local (Anderson, SC) drop by 708 W Whitner St at Capstone Church for Cityprayer.  We prayer together for the needs of our city.  For God's blessing, guidance and salvation.  


If you can't drop by between 12:15 -12:45 - at least drop what you are doing for a minute or two and pray.

^{Psalms 251} O Lord, I give my life to you.  ² I trust in you, my God!  Do not let me be disgraced, or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat.  ³ No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.

⁴ Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow.  ⁵ Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me.  All day long I put my hope in you.  ⁶ Remember, O Lord, your compassion and unfailing love, which you have shown from long ages past.  ⁷ Do not remember the rebellious sins of my youth.  Remember me in the light of your unfailing love, for you are merciful, O Lord.
⁸ The Lord is good and does what is right; he shows the proper path to those who go astray.  ⁹ He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them his way.  ¹⁰ The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all who keep his covenant and obey his demands.

Lord God  - I give myself to you again today, trusting you to do better, more with me than I could ever imagine.  You will not fail, you will not fail me!  Give direction to my steps, show me your truth, grow my hope that is placed in you.  Forgive me when I fall, fail and frustrate.  Thank you for your unfailing, unfailing, unfrustrating love.

Lord God you are good and faithful.  I love you!

Thank you Father - AMEN

Give Away Day

This Sunday at Capstone Church we are holding GIVE AWAY DAY.  Our church does this several times a year to bless our community by giving away things like furniture, clothes, toys and food.

You can be apart of GIVE AWAY DAY by

1.  Praying for God's name to be glorified and that people who are far from God come to a saving relationship with Jesus.

2.  You can give stuff away (your stuff)

3.  you can help set up and sort at Capstone this week - call the office 222-2114

4.  you can show up Sunday to set up at 9 am - get with Mike Cummings

5.  you can hang out after church - Give Away begins at 11:45.  you can walk and talk with our neighbors that come looking for something they can use - kind of like a personal shopper.  but most importantly you can get to know someone new.  there will be hotdogs too.

See you Sunday.
DB

Psalms 5

^{Psalms 5:1} O Lord, hear me as I pray; pay attention to my groaning.
² Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for I pray to no one but you.
³ Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord.  Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.

⁴ O God, you take no pleasure in wickedness; you cannot tolerate the sins of the wicked. ⁵ Therefore, the proud may not stand in your presence, for you hate all who do evil. ⁶ You will destroy those who tell lies.  The Lord detests murderers and deceivers. ⁷ Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house; I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe. ⁸ Lead me in the right path, O Lord, or my enemies will conquer me.  Make your way plain for me to follow.

Lord God – Let my prayers fall heart-felt upon your ears.  I know you love me and listen to me.  I desperately need you, need your help.  You are good and kind and each day you desire me to come before you.

God I know you oppose the proud and sin-filled, you detest evil.  I am sinful and yet you love me.  You invite me into your presence.  Allow me to dwell and mediate and search your heart and your word.  Lead me in pathways of truth and righteousness.  Make the roadway obvious for me.

ps 34

^{Psalms 34:1} I will praise the Lord at all times.  I will constantly speak his praises.
² I will boast only in the Lord; let all who are helpless take heart.
³ Come, let us tell of the Lord’s greatness; let us exalt his name together. 

⁴ I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me.  He freed me from all my fears.⁵ Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces. ⁶ In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened; he saved me from all my troubles. ⁷ For the angel of the Lord is a guard; he surrounds and defends all who fear him. ⁸ Taste and see that the Lord is good.  Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!  ⁹ Fear the Lord, you his godly people, for those who fear him will have all they need. ¹⁰ Even strong young lions sometimes go hungry, but those who trust in the Lord will lack no good thing.

Lord God – help me to praise you at all times.  The times that are easy and hard.  The ups and downs.  The joys and pains.  Times of peace and trouble.  Times of doubt and discernment.  Free me from my lack of faith that comes through fear and doubt.  Let your presence be comforting.  God hear my desperation for you, know the place that I am in.  Save me.  Defend me.  Listen to me.

Lord I have tasted your goodness.  I have known your joy and peace.  You have provided for my need.  Even if you do not answer my prayer in the way I think you should answer my prayer – I will still trust in you.  I will not want.  God you are the provider.

Capstone Church family news

Church family –

September is here, school has begun, the pace of life is changing (as always), and there are new opportunities around the corner and old friends to stay in touch with.  Mostly our intentions entering this season are good.  We intend to loose a few pounds, spend better time with husband or wife, listen to our children and make new friends.  We intend to read our bibles more and push back from the buffet, we intend to make that phone call and study harder, we intend to stop and be still with God….to listen, to take direction, to meet a need.

My prayer for you is that you do exactly that.  STOP.  Psalm 46:10 tells us to “be still and know that He is God.”  You might be still and you might know that God is God.  But to do both simultaneously?  Knowing God and taking the time for God to make known to you His desires, preferences, dreams for you, your family, your church, your city.  Now that is different.

Be Still – and know.

Life of the Church:

Sept 3 – Men’s Pancake Breakfast – 8:00 am (that’s this Saturday!!!)

Sept 11 – Communion – We will share the Lord’s Table as a family.

Sept 18 – Give Away Day – Am service will feature several people within Capstone and a few from the community as we share about how God is at work and how you can get involved.

Sept 24 – Baptism – Celebrate as we baptize new Christ-followers.  If you have accepted Christ and want to be baptized, please contact David

October 9 – Buddy Walk At Anderson University – we will walk as a part of Team Kaci Menzel and pass out water to all the participants

October 27 – Team leaves for Cuba – How you can be involved:  1.  please pray for us  2.  we are collecting baseball stuff and travel size lotions, soaps, shampoos  3.  Give – you can give to our Cuba mission efforts by giving monetarily above our regular tithes.

October 28 – Capstone Candy Carnival – lots of opportunity for impacting kids all over Anderson

1. Every week on Thursdays at 12:15 pm – You are invited to pray.  At Capstone the doors are open and a quiet place is available to come and pray with others – This time is called CityPrayer – specifically to come together to pray for our city and the needs.  If you can not come, you can stop for a moment wherever you are and pray.
2. There are many new faces around and some that are missing.  Look around and welcome and get to know the new faces and make a phone call or stop by to tell some of the one that are missing that they are missed and you want to see them back.
3. Home Groups are the life of Capstone Church.  If you are not currently in a group – I want to help you connect to an existing group or be part of a new group starting late September.
4. Pray for Mike D’Avanzo as he leads our Student Ministry.  The Verb meets on Wednesday at 6:30 for Middle and High School Students – we have had a big turn out the past couple of weeks because kids are inviting kids.  There is a gathering for High School at eCity Java at 7pm on Mondays.  Magnify is for college students and it meets on Sunday nights at 7 pm - after only 2 weeks we have seen 30-50 show up to grow as disciples together.
5. We have 2-3 volunteer interns from Anderson University that will be assisting in worship, student ministry, graphic design and possibly our kids areas.
6. Leah Mosqueda is the director or Imagination Station – she needs 3 people to fill vacancies on an every other week rotation with our baby class and 2 yr old room
7. Summer time has been expensive in many ways:  bills are higher, many are in need, we have on going financial responsibilities with church plants, missionary sending groups and local ministry organizations.  It is costing more each week because we have more people.  We have had several weeks of offerings that were low and we need to catch up to maintain the responsibilities we have.

Here is the financial picture from the last month:  8/7 - $5623.55  8/14 – 5637.12   8/21 – 4163.30   8/28 – 2415.50

Our needs have not changed (we need to average $5750.31 weekly to meet our annual budget.  More importantly we need to able as the opportunity arises to step into what God may have planned for us.

I challenge you to give in the coming weeks.  You are needed to step up as a part of the body of Christ that is Capstone Church and give.  If you have gotten behind on your tithes this summer – make it up.  If you only give every once in awhile – be consistent – take God at His word that He will be faithful to you – trust Him.  If you have never given to the church – you always thought that was somebody else’s responsibility…you are somebody else...start now.  Together we can accomplish so much more – we can continue to reach lost people for Jesus, meet needs in the community, provide opportunities for kids and adults to grow as disciples and meet together for fellowship and worship.

I love you church.  Go and love others this week.

David