This week, we pray you are well. We have finished Week 4 of our series, You Have a Part to Play. We consider the question, ‘How can I be a difference-maker?’, where we discuss key cultural topics and the part the people of God can play in them.
Last week, we discussed homelessness—not just physically but spiritually. This week, we discussed Creation Care.
What if people took God’s call to be stewards of all creation seriously?
Looking at Psalm 24:1-10, we see that how we relate to the world and those in the world around us is important. We were created to steward the Earth.
Our living—intentional or careless—affects the world’s people, places, and things. Our care for all creation can foster a thriving ecosystem or contribute to its decline.
How do we successfully and responsibly manage and care for the resources entrusted to us?
Why should we seek the ethical and the sustainable?
Simply put, we are called to build and cultivate the Earth. This is our cultural mandate: “…fill the Earth and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:28)
Yes, this world may be broken and full of sin, but that wasn’t the way things were meant to be. God didn’t intend for us to be bound to sin, and the Earth has suffered and is distorted by it.
Thankfully, God doesn’t leave us in our sin and rebellion, and we get to experience God’s mercy and deliverance from sin. Jesus made the brokenness beautiful, and all things will be restored—us to God, people to one another, and creation to the way it was meant to be.
Join us for our prayer call today from 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. via Zoom as we pray for God’s help in stewarding all of our resources (the environment, finances, time, and relationships) not for our own personal gain but as an act of worship to Him.
Here’s what we’ll be focusing on as we pray for:
???? The Way Things Were: The ability to fight the human inclination to be the ‘king of the hill.’ That we would fight our need for control and not seek fleeting pleasure.
???? The Way Things Are: Humanity, especially Christians, to fight temptation that leads to brokenness and sin.
???? The Way Things Could Be: Humanity to recognize God’s pull out of sin and rebellion and experience His mercy and deliverance. We would see brokenness made beautiful by Jesus.
???? The Way Things Will Be: Humanity to steward and care for all around us. We would cling to the hope that God is and will restore and redeem all things—all things will be made new, and every tear will be wiped from our eyes.
Let’s pray as we believe God for restoration here, now, and in eternity. Together, let’s cry out to God and seek Him, enabling us to steward all that He’s given us.
See you at 12 p.m.!
God bless,
Bria Lacour
bria@mosaicfortworth.com
General Prayer Requests & Updates
That evangelism would grow across Fort Worth, reaching communities and campuses so people encounter the love of Christ and are drawn to His kingdom.
That signs and wonders would accompany the preaching of His Word.
For strong team unity and more laborers to share the work.
For continued financial provision.
For fully funded campus missionaries (two per campus) to reach the next generation at Texas Christian University (TCU), Dallas Baptist University (DBU), University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Tarrant County College (TCC), Texas Wesleyan University (TWU) and Tarleton State University – Fort Worth (TSU).
Bria Johnson, a Houston native and University of Texas at Austin alum, has dedicated nearly a decade to Mosaic Church and six years to Every Nation Campus, holding multiple leadership positions. Her fervor lies in mentoring students, especially young women, to unearth their worth and identity in Christ through discipleship. Witnessing her family’s conversion, Bria embodies our mission to impact students and their families with the Gospel’s transformative power.
