It’s time for our weekly addition to The Prayer List.  For a recap of what we’re doing and why, click here.  Otherwise, let’s get it going!

This week, I’m cheating a little bit and I’m adding two folks to The Prayer List– Melonie Daniels to Canton Jones.  Both are grappling with the bittersweetness of each of their father’s passing (Canton’s last Thursday and Melonie’s today).  So, let’s hold them up as their brothers and sisters in Christ.

God, thank You for being the Divine Orchestrator of all things in Heaven and Earth.  Thank You for being a sovereign and loving God– a God who is infinitely greater than our finite understanding, but a God who is willing to reveal Yourself to us through nature, through Your word and by Your Spirit.

Lord, I lift up to you this week Canton Jones and Melonie Daniels, two of Your precious children who both experienced the passing of their respective Earthly fathers in the past week.  I pray that You would wrap them in Your comfort and peace.  Where the enemy would prompt them to challenge how good You are, I pray that the Spirit of the Living God, that dwells within them, would speak louder than him.  Where society, even the Church, would suggest that they need to hurry up and heal, I pray that You would do a thorough and perfect work, so that their peace about this situation would be complete, lacking nothing.

I pray that nothing would deter the music ministries of Canton and Melonie, but that they would have an even greater conviction of who You are, and how awesome You are.  I pray that these trials would cause them to serve You even more, love You even more, and live for You even more.

God, I pray that the respective families of Melonie and Canton would be strong even in the passing of the patriarchs of those families.  I pray that their respective memorial services and celebrations of life would be covered by Your grace and that souls would be won to Your Kingdom by the testimonies of the lives that Pastor Clarence Jones and Reverend Rufus Daniels lived.

I pray that their natural “absences” would be viewed as Heavenly “presences,” and that Your Church’s view of eternity, and the glory that surrounds it, would be Biblical and void of the finality that we often cast upon it.  Be glorified and allow us, Your children, to see how beautiful Your plan of redemption, and the promise of eternity with You, truly is.  In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Family, this is serious business.  Let’s lift up our brother, Canton, and our sister, Melonie, in prayer.

Post your prayers here and let’s get started on what we do!