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Show Advertising Pays Plan Now To Attend 1 The Escalante Center's f Annual Escalante Festival I Friday & Saturday May 24 & 25 Featuring Pioneer & Cowboy Story Tellers - Poetry Cowboy Fashion Show Crafts & Entertainment I ALL DAY SATURDAY Saturday Evening Performance Of SAGEBRUSH MARY First Lady Pioneer To k "Put Her Foot Down" f In The Place Called Escalante To Participate With Your Crafts Or Skills, 1 Be Informed. Check Out the Le&l Notices You have a right to know, so laws require Legal Notices. Local notices are here and now we bring you i notices from across Utah. eft. www.utahlegalnotices.com fj Search for Legal Notices by word or subject (111 bypuMcatonsorareaofthestateandby Tj date. It's easy, ifs inforrrative and ifs FREE. i,y J IU Please have flowers that are not attached to headstones at the PANGUITCH CEMETERY removed by May 13. All unattached flowers will be removed thereafter to allow for Memorial Day preparations. Remember,,, Save your used items to donate to (he future Garfield Memorial Hospital Foundation Board THRIFT STORE! All proceeds will benefit the foundation. mn Used items can be donated by contacting Maxine Crosby, Panguitch, 435-676-8281 or Nancy Mtchell, Bryce Valley and Escalante 435-679-85(14' itarcday, May 2 Make Every Day A Day of Prayer "Don't be weary in prayer; keep at it, watch for God's answers, and remember to be thankful when they come." The National Day of Prayer dates back to February 1 795 when President George Washington issued a proclamation to set aside a day of public Thanksgiving. In 1988, Congress designated the first Thursday in May as the nation's official day of prayer. The National Day of Prayer invites millions of Americans to cross over denominational lines for a day of prayer. The scripture officially adopted for this year's observance is "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." (Psalm 46:1) This verse is especially meaningful given the increasing worldwide instability, our "trouble". This is an opportunity for all of us to join with millions of others all over the nation in prayer for our country, leaning on God's promise that "If my people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." II Chronicles 7:14 If we remember specifically the promise in Deuteronomy 32:30 that one can chase a thousand and two ten thousand, the same verse also reminds us that it is God who does it through His servants. As His servants, it is time to seek His face. Our nation is in dire peril from its own wickedness. If two can chase ten thousand, it will not take many believing Christians on their knees in fervent and believing prayer - watching for those answers from God that can begin to bring about the changes that will save our nation. Prayer requires something of us - a setting aside of worldly thoughts and focusing on the God to whom we pray as we remember His love, His grace. His mercy, and His power and ability to do what He says He will do. Our "action" in prayer involves a true "interaction" with God void of distraction. Prayer will get our eyes off ourselves and onto the power of God. As we pray we become convinced that all things are possible because our prayer energizes our believing. It strengthens our inner man to trust and rely upon God. As we pray, we give our problems, our burdens, our fears, our worries over to the only One Who can do anything about them our loving and merciful Heavenly Father. Mark 11 :24 tells us " ... What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them." In the past, we may have thought that we must be a "good pray-er", must speak in King James English, must be super-spiritual, and, in a sense, that we must be "good enough" to pray and ask God for anything. Not so. We approach Him as we would a little child to a loving father and we say, Abba, Father - "Daddy", and He hears and responds with His infinite love. God is no respecter of persons; He hears every prayer, no matter how it is expressed. A little three-year-old child may simply say "pray, pray, pray Grandma ... pray, pray, pray Daddy ... pray, pray, pray Mommy" knowing only the word "pray" and those she loves to apply it to. And we know that God hears her. There is no need for competence in prayer; there is only need for sincerity. No one is better or worse at prayer, but some are more committed. It takes commitment to change our nation, our state, our community, our home. What we do in prayer is fellowship with the most high God as we strengthen our inner man, growing in union and communion, building the most intimate relationship known to man. The more we pray for others, the more we change ourselves. Prayer transforms us and it transforms others. And we do get better at it, not that our method necessarily changes, but that our attitude does. We begin to cherish those times alone with God as we come to know with ever greater confidence that "The prayer of a righteous man availeth much" (James 5:6) Sponsored By RIVERS OF LIFE Join Us For Praise, Worship and Prayer Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m., 406 E. 300 S. (Hwy 89), Kanab |