As an OFC family we wanted to reach out to our fellow supporters, campers, and prayer team members during this time. We hope that all of you are well and wanted to invite you to pray with us as we all face these confusing days.
We are praying daily for the health of our OFC staff and family and for the wellness of each of you. We pray for our students as they have returned home from school and are trying to figure out the new normal of online education. We pray for parents who are possibly spending more time working from home, or who have lost their jobs during the closures. We pray for our students who may not have a home to return to, that their community of believers would rally around them and support them in this time. We pray that our community could be one of support; being called the hands and feet of Jesus, loving thy neighbor and taking every opportunity to serve their fellow human. We pray for guidance for our leaders as they make decisions over the coming weeks. We pray for the safety of those still serving our communities and working in public spaces. We pray against depression and anxiety as we deal with social distancing and a disruption of normal routines. As a body of believers we know that God has a plan for this time and that as we turn our face toward him in prayer and worship we can be filled with a new hope and peace during this uncertainty.
For the next two weeks or eight weeks or however long we are under the direction to stay home let us turn our eyes towards God and fall afresh into the Word. Here we can lay down our concern, our frustration, our isolation, our fear. Here we will find comfort, security, peace, and rest. May we stand firm on the promises that God has for us, believing that he hears our cries and that he is comforting us in this mess.
For today let us press into Psalm 13 A Plea for Deliverance
How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long will I store up anxious concerns within me,
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?
Consider me and answer, Lord my God.
Restore brightness to my eyes;
Otherwise I will sleep in death.
My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,” and
My foes will rejoice because I am shaken.
But I have trusted your faithful love;
My heart will rejoice in your deliverance.
I will sing to the Lord
Because he has treated my generously.