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Lent Week 2 3.5.23

Published on Feb 27, 2023

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Code Word: TREASURE

The Christian life is a battle of treasure.
Whatever treasure captures your heart will control your life.

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Song - Come Now Is the Time to Worship

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Invocation

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Link to Video: MEDITATION LEThttps://youtu.be/WDAlAWUvgMITERS OF ENCOURAGEMENT Congregation remains seated throughout Leader 2: Just as Paul wrote a letter of encouragement to the saints, so we, having head the faith stories of women and girls in Taiwan, are sending them letters of encouragement. Let us hear what these have to say. Woman 1: Dear Sister Fen-Jiau (pronounced fong-jiao), I have heard of your faith. You, a middled-aged, indigenous woman, have become a wonderful blessing to women of a similar age. 4 As a homemaker, you have dedicated yourself to your family for decades. When you tried to find a job to support your family, you were challenged at the workplace. You faced discrimination because of your age and felt pressured to accept social rules against women. You felt you were neglecting your family responsibility when the reason you looked for a job was to take care of your family. Facing a dilemma, you trusted God’s guidance and found the path to support your family by teaching traditional weaving and taking care of your tribe. Your creative potential and strength thrived once again. Your testimony is a wonderful blessing that inspires many sisters. Woman 2: Dear Sister Pearl, As a hospital cleaner on the front-line during the COVID-19 pandemic, you risked your life to clean and sanitise patients’ rooms in the hospital. You could not go home after work as you did not want to risk infecting your three young children. Struggling on a meagre income, you still needed to rent a room and live there to minimise contamination risks. During self-isolation you could not be there to take care of your family so you felt frustrated and lonely. I am so impressed by the sacrifices you made and pray for you earnestly, hoping that the Lord of my life will also be your strength. Response Prayer. All: Merciful God, we come to you in our prayers like the faithful women in the letters who told you of their struggles and hopes. They were not defeated by the difficulties but empowered by your wisdom. We are not alone, for you are listening. We thank you for your presence, guidance and protection as we walk through the valley of shadows. May we glorify you and become a living testimony of Christ

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/WDAlAWUvgMI

Call to Worship

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
(Matthew 6:21, NIV)

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Scripture Matthew 6:19-24

“Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be “Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is! “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

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Song - Take My Life & Let It Be

Code Word: MULTIPLY

“Go into all the world and make disciples.”
- Matthew 28:19

Pastoral Prayer

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Testimony

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Message - Code Word: Treasure

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Invitation and Response
"All My Days and All My Hours"


All my days and all my hours,
All my will and all my powers,
All the passion of my soul,
Not a fragment – but the whole
Shall be Thine, dear Lord,
Shall be Thine, dear Lord.

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Lord, I will lift my eyes to the hills
Knowing my help is coming from You
Your peace You give me in time of the storm
You are the source of my strength
You are the strength of my life
I lift my hands in total praise to You
Amen

Blessing And Sending

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