Weekly Prayer Devotional

Updated weekly with a devotional from one of our leaders, and opportunities to pray for the needs of our church family.

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This Week's Call To Faith

Listen with care by looking for where/how God is active in people's lives.

Dave Chatel
Co-pastor

Thoughts From This Week's Leader

For the Week of October 25, 2026

For the Week of October 25, 2026

This week we are exploring how to
“Listen with care.” I was reading a short article by Henri Nouwen about listening. It is a bit of a long quote but I thought it was so good I didn’t want to cut anything out of it.

“Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that, those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their own true selves.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.”

Nouwen, H. J. M. (1997). Bread for the journey: A daybook of wisdom and faith. HarperSanFrancisco. As qtd in Coracle. (2015, March 20). Henri Nouwen on spiritual direction (kind of!). 









Praise

Praise


We praise God because He is a listening God and He calls us to listen.

 “I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.” Psalm 116:1–2

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry. Psalm 34:15

He calls us to Listen

 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is
one.” Deuteronomy 6:4–5

““Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:27

Lament

Lament


“For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’” Matthew 13:15

I lament the many times I don’t listen well to God or to others. I lament being selfish and letting my heart grow dull. God open my eyes and ears to your heart. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven in my life.

Prayers for Our World

Prayers for Our World


Jesus said: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me (John 10:27) and if we “follow” him then…

““You [we] are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew
5:14-16

We pray that we will be sheep that listen and follow so we can shine your light into this dark world! That the darkness will be overcome by the light of Christ shining through us as we listen well.




Hope

Hope

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of
the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”” John 10:27-30




Crossroads Ministries

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Weekly Prayer Focus

Pastor & Specific Ministry
Pastor Phil
Members of the 20 summthins
Ministry Volunteers

Leadership Team Member

Jessica Berndt

Ministries
Bites of Love
City Covenant

Continued Prayers for Long Term Illness

Karalyn Lovelady – Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Clare Allen – Dialysis

Charleigh (from Sarah Schuldt)– child with Leukemia

Cindy – Step-sister of Shannon Garber, she is in remission. Please continue prayers for strengthening of her health because in addition to the cancer she also has Lupus.

Amanda Sells’ Parents – Cancer

Julie Martin – Friend of Westphal’s - praise that some of the markers have come down

Scot - friend of Danielle Dominik stage 4 Lung cancer. IS DOING MUCH BETTER, please keep the prayers going!

Continued Prayers For Those Grieving

Friends and Family of Dave Bonello  -(8/26) 

Johnson Family - Passing of Deb's aunt & dad (2/26)

Grush Family - Passing of Jessica's dad. (2/26)

Laura Baier - Passing of her Father (12/25)

Julie DeMull - Passing of her mother (11/25)

Prayers For The World

Unrest across the world
Natural Disasters

Prayers For Freedom

Pray for anyone you know and love that is struggling with substance abuse, mental illness & other strongholds.

Prayers For Salvation

Lord, please open a path for [person’s name] to come to know and accept You as their Lord and Savior.  Please place people in their lives who are a loving example of what it means to know and follow You.  I pray they will receive Your love and grace.

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