Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church!

1. Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church! August 20, 2017

2. Job 9 5He moves mountains without their knowing it    and overturns them in his anger.6 He shakes the earth from its place    and makes its pillars tremble.7 He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;    he seals off the light of the stars.

3. Job 9 9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.10 He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,    miracles that cannot be counted.

4. Psalm 19 1 The heavens declare the glory of God;    the skies proclaim the work of his hands.2 Day after day they pour forth speech;    night after night they reveal knowledge.3 They have no speech, they use no words;    no sound is heard from them.4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,    their words to the ends of the world.

5. Psalm 19 In the heavens God has pitched a tent  for the sun.5 It is like a bridegroom  coming out of his chamber,like a champion rejoicing to run his course.6 It rises at one end of the heavens    and makes its circuit to the other;    nothing is deprived of its warmth.

6. Gatherings Sun, Aug. 20 @ 12pm • Potluck BBQ @ Eagle Beach Elk Lake

7. Reaching Out COBS Bread • Saturday night pick-up @ COBS& bagging @ church @ 7:20pm • Sunday distribution! Food Hamper in Foyer

8. Going Deeper • Weekly gathering – Tuesday nights in fall • Teaching video & small group discussion • 12-step homework • Sponsor/mentor • Pamphlets in Foyer Freedomsession.com

10. Prayer • Requests & Thanksgiving

11. Offering • Online givingnow availableon website: Parkdalechurch.ca

12. Kids’ Minute • Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old

13. God’s Story: Finding our Place in His Unfolding Plan August Reading: Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah • Esther 4: Called for such a Time • Nehemiah 1: Desiring Renewal: Prayer & Vision

14. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionRemembering Better Days (1-3)

15. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionRemembering Better Days (1-3)

17. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionRemembering Better Days (1-3) The Big picture - Humans created to reflect God • Abraham called to bless all • Israel saved to be a holy witness • David chosen to lead faithfully • Prophets sent to guide in truth • Israel exiled – preserved, shown to world

18. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionLooking Back: Confessing our Sins (4-7)

19. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionLooking Back: Confessing our Sins (4-7) Nehemiah’s Response to Grief • Open up to God • Acknowledge God • Associate generally • Confess specifically

20. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionLooking Back: Confessing our Sins (4-7) 2 Chronicles 16:9 • For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. 

21. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionLooking Back: Confessing our Sins (4-7) Hebrews 11:6 • And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

22. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionLooking Forward: Claiming God’s Promises (8-11) Nehemiah’s Request to God • Remember His Word • Remember His works

23. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionLooking Forward: Claiming God’s Promises (8-11) 1 John 5:14-15 • 14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him.

24. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionLooking Forward: Claiming God’s Promises (8-11) Nehemiah’s Request to God • Remember His Word • Remember His works • Request success in step of faith

25. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionLooking Forward: Claiming God’s Promises (8-11) Nehemiah’s Prayer • God’s character • Confess responsibility for past • God’s promise & action • Take responsibility for future

26. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionThe Next Step: Catching God’s Vision Jeremiah 29:11-14 • 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.12Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 

27. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionThe Next Step: Catching God’s Vision Jeremiah 29:11-14 • 14I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

28. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionThe Next Step: Catching God’s Vision Mark 1:17 • Follow Me…and I will make you fishers of men Matthew 11:28 • Come to Me…and I will give you rest John 10:10 • I have come that you’d have life to the full.

29. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionThe Next Step: Catching God’s Vision Matthew 16:18 – build His Church 1 John 4:4 – greater in us than in the world 1 Corinthians 10:13 – way out of temptation John 11:25-26 – resurrection & life Matthew 7:7-11 – ask, seek, knock

30. Desiring Renewal: Prayer & VisionThe Next Step: Catching God’s Vision

31. Communion Looking back • Confession & Forgiveness Looking forward • Promise & Hope

32. Psalm 51 10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.11 Do not cast me from your presence    or take your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

33. Psalm 51 16 You do not delight in sacrifice,  or I would bring it;    you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;    a broken and contrite heart    you, God, will not despise. 18 May it please you to prosper Zion,    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

34. Communion 1 Corinthians 11:23-25“This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me. This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”