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Devotion Week of September 18, 2011

This document contains sermon notes focused on friendship. It includes several prayer requests and provides daily devotionals on Mondays through Saturdays exploring biblical stories and passages about friendship, such as the story of the paralyzed man lowered through the roof and brought to Jesus. The devotionals encourage reflecting on friendships and how to be a devoted friend to others.

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Devotion Week of September 18, 2011

This document contains sermon notes focused on friendship. It includes several prayer requests and provides daily devotionals on Mondays through Saturdays exploring biblical stories and passages about friendship, such as the story of the paralyzed man lowered through the roof and brought to Jesus. The devotionals encourage reflecting on friendships and how to be a devoted friend to others.

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SERMON NOTES:

PRAYER REQUESTS
SEPTEMBER 11, 2011 Y Pray for Presbyterian new church
developments: Anchor Presbyterian Church in Anchorage, Alaska; Covenant Presbyterian Church in Detroit, MI; Common Ground Community Church in North Lima, OH. father, who will have surgery on his hip October 17. United Seminary, whose cancer has reappeared.

is currently receiving advanced treatments. Y Pray for Angelica Van Iperens friends, Paula and Ruben, and they struggle with infertility and limited resources to treat it. Y Donna Mc Cullen, Ken Mc Cullen's wife as she goes through more intense chemotherapy treatment.

Y Pray for Charles Moore, Pastor Pauls

DEVOTION
This past Sunday, IPastor Paulshared the first part of a sermon series called, Being friends in a Facebook world. Besides having quality relationships with our family, having quality relationships with our friends can literally save our life. Studies have shown that people with friends live a much longer life than those who have few friends. The Bible and particularly Jesus share all sorts of stories about friends. We have six stories and Scriptures from which to learn this week. Enjoy! Comments about the devotion can be emailed to [email protected].

Y Pray for Mary McNamara, President of

Y Pray for Carole Lloyd, a friend of Pastor


Paul and Amy Moore, whose brain cancer has reappeared.

Y Pray for those who lost loved ones


during 9/11 in 2001. Pray for hope.

Y Pray for Rebecca Kleins friend, Phyllis


Ganser, who is suffering from heart issues.

Y Pray for Dave Nelson as he recovers


from back surgery. Y Pray for a six year old boy named Carter Olson who is undergoing treatment for brain cancer. Y Pray for Ankur Chopra as he finishes army training. Y Pray for Dwight Zvorak as he returns home and recovers from the disease of alcoholism. Y Pray for Paul and Amys friends Katie & Greg Hansen. Y Pray for persons and process involved in property purchase for COL. Y Pray for Ben Simmer, a young man just graduated from college and has MS. He

Monday, September 19 Read Luke 5:17-26


Word had gotten out about Jesus ability to heal and four friends wanted to help the man who was paralyzed. They put the paralyzed man on a stretcher, took him to the top of the roof of a house, let him down through a hole in the roof they dug, and lay him at the feet of Jesus. What an extraordinary act of devotion these four friends performed. They were willing to do whatever it takes to bring their paralyzed friend to Jesus.

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This level of friendship is a vision for us. All of us have friends. Hopefully the love of your friendships matches the love of the friends in the story for the man who was paralyzed. As you pray today, pray for this type of love in your friendships.

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Look in particular at the second Proverb Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than ones nearest kin. Do you play at friendship? How seriously do you take your friends? Do your friends know that you love them deeply? As you pray today, talk to God about how much you play at friendship.

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going to give up. The words are worth memorizing. Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; Where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will diethere will I be buried. May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you! Ruth 1:16-17 As you pray, pray that you can develop this type of devotion to some of your friends.

Tuesday, September 20 Read John 15:12-16


Jesus made the statement in these verses to his disciples. It was part of the High Priestly prayer. This was the last prayer that Jesus shared in front of his disciples before he died on the cross. Jesus shared that his followers were now his friends. They were his friends because Jesus had shared everything with them that he had intended to reveal. It is quite a statement to think that we could be friends of Jesus. Jesus wants to be friends with us. Jesus wants us to love others in a sacrificial way; he wants us to bear fruit that lasts; he wants us to know the way that we are intended to live. This is partly what it means to be a friend of Jesus. It is a high and mighty calling. Today as you pray, pray that you will deepen in friendship with Jesus.

Thursday, September 22 Read Luke 15:1-7


Look at what the shepherd did when he found the lost sheep. When he came home he called together his friends and had a party with them. He wanted to share his joy with the people he loved. Sharing life is part of being friends with other people. We share joys, disappointments, our happiness and sadness, our triumphs and tragedies. Most of the time our friends relish us sharing our life with them. With whom could you share part of your life with today? What joys, disappointments, happiness, sadness, triumphs or tragedies could you share with a friend? Your friend would probably relish the opportunity to share life with you.

Saturday, September 24 Read Luke 14:12-14


In this teaching for the disciples Jesus changed the dynamic of friendship. Jesus encouraged his followers to expand their understanding of who was their friend. Its as Jesus was saying that the poor, crippled, lame, and blind should be part of a persons circle of friends. This message is just as relevant for us today as when Jesus taught it. As you pray today, reflect on who in your circle of friends is poor, crippled, lame, or blind. If you dont have a lot of people in your circle of friends who are poor, crippled, lame, or blind pray that God would bring these people to you. Also pray that we at Chain of Lakes Church will have people in our congregation who are poor, crippled, lame and blind.

Wednesday, September 21 Read Proverbs 17:17, 18:24, 27:10


Proverbs are wisdom sayings. They are like a modern-day one liner that has a kernel of truth for our lives. Each of these proverbs has a kernel of truth for friendship.

Friday, September 23 Read Luke 1:6-22


This is an amazing story of devotion. Even though Ruth and Naomi were relatives the way that Ruth treated Naomi is an example of a deep friendship. Even though Naomi wanted Ruth to leave her, Ruth was not

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