Western Heritage Church

Good afternoon WHC Family☀️
Let us welcome Dr. Brent Thomason this Sunday to preach God’s Word. His sermon title is “Leaving a Legacy Left for Us.”
Dr. Brent is the Dean of the Graduate School of Ministry and Professor of Biblical Studies at Dallas Baptist University. He grew up on a ranch in Oklahoma and enjoys the cowboy western world. Brent and Aline have three children: Ben, Lars and Lea. At DBU, Brent loves teaching Bible classes, mentoring students and publishing books. So WHC let’s pray for Professor Brent and prepare to pack God’s house with worshippers to lift up our Lord’s Name.
Western Heritage Church
Worship Time 10:30AM
CowboyChurchIrving.org

TO OUR MOTHERS & GRANDMOMS
You are deserving of blessing and honor for who you are and for all you do.
No matter what your age - single or married - here is a prayer of blessing for you for every good work, every good word, and for every act of love you have ever offered on behalf of the ones you love.

Dear Lord,
Bless every mother and every grandmother with the finest of your spiritual blessings today. Confirm in her heart and spirit the work of her hands and the love that she has so freely given to those children under Your care.

Validate her worth daily so she has no reason to doubt whether she is loved, valued, and cherished in the eyes of her Heavenly Father.

Create in her a deep sense of your protection and trust, so that worry and fear will disappear as she places her loved ones into Your care.

Let her know that every prayer she has prayed and every encouraging word she has spoken on behalf of her children/grandchildren has been transformed into sweet, fragrant offerings before Your throne.

Whisper deep within her spirit the sweet words she longs to hear from You—that nothing can ever separate her from Your love.

Help her to nestle daily into the promises of Your Word, standing with faith on the things You declare are true.

Let her know that You reward faithfulness, but that true success doesn’t lie in her accomplishments or accolades.

Let her rest in the knowledge that she has done all she can—and that she and those she loves—truly belong to you.

Bless her with a servant spirit so she can teach her own the joy of hearing one day, “Well done!”

Heavenly Father,
Remove any guilt, false or real, and replace them with Your amazing grace and forgiveness. Help her see her children or grandchildren through Your eyes, knowing that in Your hands is the safest place they can ever be.

Calm every doubt, and strengthen her confidence in the Only One who can bring good out of any situation.

Teach her that she cannot meet every need of her child’s life, but that You can.

Give her wisdom and guidance to train those precious children in Your path, and then to leave the results to You, Lord.

Help her to
love without limitations,
to pray without ceasing,
and to live without regrets.

Bless her with such a sweet dependency on You that she will acknowledge her inadequacies, yet recognize and accept Your reward of praise—and Your sense of pleasure in having her as Your own beloved child.

Where prayers may still seem unanswered, and dreams are not yet realized, open her eyes to see beyond this world to a Hope that never disappoints, and to a Father who will never leave or abandon her.

Give her the courage to persevere even in the most difficult moments of her life. Bless her with honesty, integrity, and a playfulness that shows her children she is human, yet unswerving in her desire to know You.

Let her joy be contagious;
let her passion be pure,
and let her life overflow with all the blessings she deserves—on special days, and on every day of her life.
In Jesus’s name,
Amen

“A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭31‬:‭10‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/pro.31.10.NIV

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Pastor Jody
WELCOMES YOU TO JOIN WHC
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER 2024
Come at Your Leisure
May 2, Thursday 4-8PM

Enter the worship center and spend a few minutes in prayer. The setting will have soft instrumental praise to provide a prayer and worshipful spirit. This will be your personal moment to have prayerful reflection and meditation on the things of God and your concerns.

A prayer guide will be available.

Also you can go to nationaldayofprayer.org for additional resources

2024 Theme
LIFT UP THE WORD - LIGHT UP THE WORLD
2 Samuel 22:29-31
“…God is shield for all who take refuge in HIM”

Western Heritage Church
525 North Sowers Rd
Irving, Tx 75061
CowboyChurchIrving.org

FAMILY
“We are either part of the problem or part of the solution.”

While every family has its problems—some minor, some major—what really matters is how we deal with these issues. Are we working to heal and resolve the conflicts,
or are we allowing them to fester, divide,
and explode, perhaps causing irreparable damage to our relationships?

We are either part of the problem or part of the solution.

Root Causes of Problems in Relationships

We can identify certain behaviors as root causes of problematic relationships. I like to describe these behaviors as “hidden” because we often ignore, deny, or cover up our family issues.

Some major hidden behaviors are
(1) a failure to forgive or apologize,
(2) criticism
(3) gossip
(4) deception
(5) a lack of inclusion
(6) a failure to accept differences.

Once we are able to pinpoint the specific problems that are causing disagreement and strife in our immediate and extended family, we can work to solve them and make our relationships better and stronger.

Starting with Ourselves…I do pray you will open this link and start working on yourself🙏🏼

6 Hidden Behaviors That Destroy Families There’s no such thing as a perfect family. We all make mistakes that hurt our family members and we’ve all been hurt by those we love. Dr. Magdalena Battles addresses top conflicts that cause relationships to become strained or broken: a failure to forgive or apologize, criticism, gossip, decept...

"we are Easter people
in a Good Friday world.” Barbara Johnson

In a world marked by death and darkness, hate and anger, and disappointment and grief, we can live as resurrection people.

We can be people of life and light who respond with love and peace.

We can be people who’ve been healed and made whole.

Pastor Jody invites you to join him as we read Pastor Scott Savage’s 5-day devotional.
He will help us “discover how to live as a resurrection person by following the pattern of the first disciples of Jesus.
Easter may be over, but we’re just beginning to understand and experience the power of the resurrection of Jesus.”

After Easter: How to Live as Resurrection People Every Day Do you ever struggle with the gap between hearing the words "this changes everything" and the life you are living the Monday after Easter? What is supposed to happen when the Easter service is over? In this plan, you will learn how the first followers of Jesus became resurrection people and how you....