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Roots Informed Prayer Time (RIPT)
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Excited about what’s around the corner?…Worried about your best friend at the moment?…Chuffed about all the good things in your life? Well, God wants to hear all about your anxieties and joys. At roots we see prayer as an essential part of what we do - we know God hears us and he blesses, guides and renews our trust as we pray to him.This year roots is having informed prayer times (RIPT) for young people and adults connected to roots. We need to pray for the work of roots but we also want to pray more expansively for individuals and youth groups throughout the Highlands.
RIPT meets on the last Tuesday before the Roots meeting on the Friday.
April - RIPT (Tuesday 22nd), Roots (Friday 25th)
May - RIPT (Tuesday 27th), Roots (Friday 30th)
June - RIPT (Tuesday 24th), Roots (Friday 27th)
If you would like to send us a prayer request for yourself or your group then email prayer@gotroots.co.uk . If you’re skeptical or just not sure what prayer is all about, and you want to ask us some questions then please send us an email to the above address - we’d love to hear from you.
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Pot-shot 2: Why is God / Jesus always drawn with facial hair?
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Jesus was born and lived his life in 1st Century Palestine. There is a lot of evidence to suggest he would likely have worn a beard – it was normal. But, more importantly, the Bible tells us he did! The prophet Isaiah, who lived about 700 years before Jesus, prophesied that “the Servant of the LORD” would one day come, and suffer greatly in the place of God’s people. This prophecy was about Jesus, whose death took the punishment his people deserve – like a substitute who stands in place of someone else. One of things Isaiah said would happen to the suffering Servant was that his beard would be pulled out (Isaiah 50:7) but that despite the shame and humiliation of that, he would endure the shame for the sake of saving his people.
So yeah, Jesus had a beard. And he had it brutally pulled out, so that our sin could be paid for.
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134 day ago
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Pot-shot 1: Why did God’s best friend, now known as Satan, want to take over God’s reign?
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This is one of the hardest questions to answer, because really, we’re not told “why”. We know Adam (and Eve) was tempted by Satan, and ate some fruit God had said not to eat. So by that point, Satan had already decided to rebel against God. But why did Satan rebel?
There is a passage in the prophecy of Isaiah (chapter 14) that some people think refers to Satan’s rebellion. I’m not totally certain that it does, but it definitely tells us about rebellion against God. It says we want to put ourselves in a position above God. We want to rob God of the glory and honour He deserves. We want to be the ones getting the praise. This is almost certainly what happened to Satan – he wanted to be praised more than to praise God.
A bigger question is, “Why did God allow this?” After all, God is totally in control, so why allow so much suffering and rebellion? The only answer I’ve found to explain why evil exists at all is in the book of Genesis (chapter 50, verse 20) which says: “you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” Joseph’s brothers had beaten him, sold him as a slave and lied to his father that he had been killed, but as the story played out, Joseph ended up becoming Prime Minister in Egypt at the time of a huge famine. In Genesis 50, Joseph is explaining to his brothers that even though they did wrong, God still had a deeper plan running through all this – a plan to save Joseph’s family, and show that God is good.
I think that’s the only way we can understand Satan’s rebellion. It was wrong, but through it, God has a deeper plan – a plan to show us the greatest good possible: sending His Son, Jesus, to die to save rebels like us.
Just one last thing on this – Isaiah 14 tells us too that all Rebellion will end in defeat. Satan is not an equal opposite to God – his presumed reign over this world was broken by Jesus at the cross, and will be completely ended by Jesus when He returns to the world at the end of time.
For more help on this topic, visit:
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceL...
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134 day ago
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