Prayer Request

please be with me as i continue to praise God's name for all the blessings He has given me. I thank Him for giving me another reason to see the beauty of life and for showing me that He, indeed, answers prayers. May we continue to worship Him not only in times of abundance but also in times of need. May we continue to see his wonders despite the situations we are respectively facing. --- leslie

Please pray that God does some miracle in my life because I am under heavy loans beyond my ability to repay them & I am in a situation that I have to either commit suicide or run away, which as a God Child I don�t want to do. So pray for my financial blessings. Pray that the people I have to pay give me heavy concession in my loans. I am Vikram from India. --- vikram

Let's all pray for peace in war-torn Israel and Lebanon. May the ceasefire be a success, giving both parties the reconciliation. Let us also pray for the souls of the civilians that passed away during the times of bombing. This we pray in your Name. Amen. ---888

Please help me pray for my friend Yonnah as she undergoes surgery today. May our good Lord keep her safe. Amen. ---alfred

DO NOT REPAY EVIL WITH EVIL

“Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.” – 1 Peter 3:9

In 1533, Thomas Cranmer became the Archbishop of Canterbury. He served in that position during the reigns of Kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. He is credited with writing and compiling the first two Books of Common Prayer which established the basic structure of Anglican liturgy for centuries and influenced the English language through its phrases and quotations. He reached out to other Protestants and sought their unity on the Lord's Supper. His greatest achievement was to get English Bibles into the churches for the first time. In 1556, Queen Mary, a Roman Catholic queen, sentenced him to be burned at the stake for his heresy against the Roman Catholic Church. Though Thomas Cranmer took a stand for Christ that some did not like, it was hard not to like him as a person. Cranmer was a forgiving man, and he was so careful to return good for evil that it became a common saying, "Do my Lord of Canterbury an ill turn, and you may be sure to have him your friend."

How do you react when you are wronged? Do you seek revenge or do you seek to do good? Today in prayer, thank Christ that He sought to do good when He has been wronged and follow Him in doing what is right.

“The blessed person is not him who simply declines the evil, but he who does what is good.” – Symeon the New Theologian

God’s Word: “Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.” – Romans 12:17