I was sent this email recently from our Director of Youth Ministry.  With his permission I would like to share it with you.

I am convicted that if we want to see change in our churches in Tasmania we need to be people of prayer. The Bible encourages us to pray, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, “pray continually”.

When I preached a series on prayer, in my reading I saw this quote that rebuked my prayer life.

‘If we were really convinced that prayer changes the way God acts, and that God does bring about remarkable changes in the world in response to prayer, as Scripture repeatedly teaches that he does, then we would pray much more than we do. If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.’

Please join with me and pray for the Children and Youth of this state;

Awesome God, Thank you that we can come to you in prayer and that you hear our prayers. We pray for the children and youth of Tasmania.Thank you for the young people you have given us to grow as disciples. We pray for the young people who don’t know you. Please reach into their lives and bring them into a right relationship with you through your son Jesus and help us to be your instruments to do this in our community.Give us hearts to see young people saved. Help us to be people who love prayer. In the name of Jesus. Amen

James Veltmeyer (Director of Children’s and Youth Ministry)

james.veltmeyer@anglicantas.org.au