CURE Prayer Guides

  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then … 1 Corinthians 13:12a Dear friends, At some point we all can expect to wrestle with the question of suffering, asking why, given that Light has come into the world, darkness persists, troubling men, women, and children every single day. Even as we believe […]

  I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore. Psalm 121:1-2, 8 NRSV In June of 2000, I visited CURE’s first […]

  “In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.” Matthew 26:12, 13   Dear Praying Friends, Our Third Wednesday prayer gathering […]

  And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. Luke 4:1, 2 Dear Friends, The church worldwide is now two […]

“Blessed is the one … whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.” (from Psalm 1:1-2) “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” […]

…looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2 Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason* […]

At this festive season of the year … it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.  Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts … —from A Christmas Carol […]

Give thanks to him; bless his name. Psalm 100:4 (ESV)   Dear friends, Over and over the scriptures call us to give thanks to the LORD. Why? The most often repeated reason is that God is good and His love endures forever (1). Sociologist Brené Brown has from her research concluded that the more grateful […]

I pray that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit, indwelled by Christ through faith, rooted in love, grasping and knowing the measure of the deep love of Christ; filled, along with God’s people, to the measure of God’s fullness. Ephesians 3:17-19 Dear Friends, Prayer for me is best imaged in an invitation […]

Dear friends, For 20 years it’s been the practice of CURE’s US co-workers to gather on the third Wednesday of the month to pray. This year Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, falls on the third Wednesday of September. On this holy day of prayer, the high priest stood between the Mercy Seat and Israel, […]