Reaching out from Grand Lake Community Chapel
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Greetings in Christ!
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! Let us rejoice in the beginnings of peace in the Middle East, and let us be glad that hostages are being reunited with loved ones. The two-year ordeal suffered by so many has come to an end, and while true and lasting peace is a fragile thing right now, we trust that God is actively at work securing a just and eternal peace for all parties. Let us pray for similar results in Ukraine, and everywhere around the world where violence abounds.
Few of us can fully understand what people in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine have endured, in spite of the images on our screens and written reports of the horrors of war. None of us want to experience what those people have known. But all of us should rejoice that families on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East are being reunited. All of us should pray earnestly for the success of the peace plan, and all of us should pray earnestly for peace in Ukraine. All of us should pray for Christians in Africa who are being persecuted by terrorists, and all of us should pray for peace in the major cities of the United States where protests and unrest are dominating the news. Right now, it seems as if the world is coming apart at the seams; right now, it seems as if there’s nothing good people can do. Of course, we can donate money and goods to relief efforts if our personal resources allow, but the most powerful thing people of faith can do is to pray. Pray without ceasing, to quote the Apostle Paul. Prayer works, even if we think it’s taking far too long. Prayer works because the God to whom we pray wants only good things for all of his children. So pray; pray for peace, pray for kindness, pray for compassion, pray for forgiveness, pray for new beginnings. God hears our prayers, and God acts.
Blessings, Karen and Greg
Home: (989) 474-9116, Cell: (734) 502-5969 revgregrc@yahoo.com / revgreggl@yahoo.com revkarenrc@yahoo.com / revkarengl@yahoo.com
“The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” – James 5:16
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