Exeter Presbyterian Church
Worship Preparation for Next Sunday
Sunday: Review morning sermon (evening service @ 5pm)
Monday: Genesis 41:14-16, 32-46
Tuesday: 1 Samuel 7:1-10
Wednesday: 1 Samuel 7:11-17
Thursday: Psalm 100
Friday: Exodus 20:8-11
Saturday: Genesis 41
Next Sunday: November 7, 2010
Preaching: Rev. Hong Key Chung
Sermon text: Genesis 41:14-16, 32-46
Sermon title: “Holistic Leadership in Mission”
Music: Opening – “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” (#457)
Preparation – Psalm 132:11-18 (Psalter)
Response – “Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow!” (#474)
Closing – “The Church's One Foundation” (#347)
Confession of Faith: Nicene Creed
OT Reading: Psalm 100
Suggested Bible Study and Prayers
(Passages that we will refer to in next Sunday's worship)
1 Samuel 7
We need You, O Lord. The day of trouble has been near to us in recent times. The memory of it afflicts our soul still today. If this is by Your design so that we will put away all foreign gods, we pray that You would give to us the strength to do this very thing immediately. We will not cease to cry out to You, O Lord. May our great Prophet, Priest, and King perfect our prayers that we offer to You today. Till now You have helped us, even through the horror of loss. Yet You are here with us, and we are Your humble servants.
Psalm 100
Father, the duty of worship is not only for Israel. All Your people throughout the earth should love and serve You. We thank You for Your steadfast love, secured for us in the life and death of Your Son.
Genesis 41
Father of Mercy, we are impatient in suffering. Please forgive us. We could so easily believe that You have forgotten us, but this is a lie. You kept Joseph in prison for at least two years after he should have been helped by the cupbearer of Pharaoh. At just the right time, Jacob’s son was brought from that prison-house in order to interpret Pharaoh’s dream. Your ways are right. Your servants know that You give the interpretation of Your Word to Your prophets. All glory to You, O God. Who but You would have the wisdom and power to bring life and health out of the miseries of Joseph? Who could have known that You were working abundant salvation through the death of Your holy Servant Jesus? Bring us through times of famine and testing in the current age, and lead us into the age to come where we will have blessings beyond anything we have ever experienced or known. Fill us now with Your Holy Spirit, that we might rightly serve you in this day when we are strangers in a strange land. Though we may have the respect of men and great wealth and honor, we know that we are not yet home. We long for the resurrection, O Lord. Help us to be competent and useful now until the trumpet blows, and the dead in Christ are raised. Help us in our day of hardship, that we might be fruitful in the land of our affliction. May we have bread to share with the hungry, and storehouses full of grain when the severity of trouble comes upon Your people. In all our service, we will remember You, O Lord, for You give us our daily bread.
