Dear Heavenly Father,
Please help me enter every sermon with a prayerful spirit, ready to receive what You have to convey to me. Give me a discerning heart to know what is for me, and what is not. Make me like those Ninevites that received Jonah's rebuke and repented before You in sack cloth and ashes. Cause the preacher to do as the apostle Paul told young Timothy... to willingly preach God's message, even if it isn't the popular thing to do. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. Correct people and point out their sins with patience, but also cheer them up with good and effective teaching. (2 Timothy 4:2)
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man (or woman) of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Dee Richardson, Voice of the Dove