First Saturday Prayer October

First Saturday Prayer October

This month begins the new 2012 fiscal year for World Vision and Women of Vision. We need to remember our South Puget Sound Chapter in prayer as we formulate our Leadership Team, gather new partners, plan our calendar and begin a new year of service to the poor and marginalized children, women and families of our World Vision projects and our local project.

Prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father,

We come before You in the Name of Jesus praising you for another incredible year of serving You and being Your Hands extended to poor and marginalized children,women and families as Women of Vision. Lord we praise You for You have taught us about You and the power of prayer and Your Word in overcoming darkness, both in ourselves and in others. We praise You that You have heard our prayers and that we have testimony after testimony from this last year of unity, blessings and growth because of Your favor.

We lift FY2012 for our Chapter before Your throne. Lord, You have called us to be leaders and partners and friends of this Chapter. Please reveal to each heart what role and part should be played.

Please make it clear as we consider leadership positions whom you would have doing what. We surrender our way and our self to You and ask that You would be honored and glorified by each decision. We ask that You would bless each person who is willing to give of time, talents and treasure to advance Your kingdom and to serve others through our World Vision and Women of Vision partnership. We ask that You would continue to give us unity and that we would be kind to each other and gracious as we communicate. Help us to be Your women in each meeting, at each event and in all that we are called upon to do as Women of Vision Leaders.

We praise You for the partners that You have sent and we look forward to having more women join us. Please have Your way with those considering becoming partners who have not made a decision. Lord, we aren't concerned about numbers as much as we are concerned about the heart of each new partner. Bring us women who have a heart turned toward You. Bring us women who have the passion to make a difference in the lives of children, women and families that we serve. Send us women who are team players and willing to make the sacrifice of their time, talents and treasure to make a difference in the lives we serve locally, domestically and globally. We praise You that You send the women and we graciously receive and welcome them to our Chapter team. Bless our unity with each one. May they all feel welcomed and valued as vital members of our community.

We praise You for our friends who pray for our Chapter and attend various events as they can. We ask that You would bless them and invite each one to do what You would have them do to enhance the effectiveness and vitality of our Chapter. Use World Vision and Women of Vision to call them to You if they don't know You. Use us to be Light in their lives. Use them to teach us and show us how we need to grow to be that Light.

We are privileged women and we are grateful. We praise You that we are Yours and that You are ours! We praise You that You have a wonderful plan for FY2012 and that You will reveal that plan to us as we seek You! We praise You that You entrust us with Your work and that You bless us as we serve You and the poor and  those treated unjustly. 

There is none like You, Lord. We surrender all that we are and all that we have to You so that we can become all that You have for us to be. We love You, Jesus and pray in Your matchless Name! Amen!