November is Compassion Month for us at Vineyard Church, so our prayers this month will center around this theme: First, God’s compassion for me; then God’s compassion for those I love; then God’s compassion for my neighbor; and finally God’s compassion for the poor.

You can do this all at once, or take each movement one by one for four days.

Reese LeRoy | November is Compassion Month at Vineyard Church.  It’s a time each year for us to focus on God’s heart for the poor.  We continue our study of Proverbs and focus on its teachings on how we should care for those in need. There we clearly see that care and concern for the poor are essential components of living wisely.

Mary-Margaret LeRoy | Proverbs 31 is a picture of what it’s like for men and women to be present to the things God calls each of us to. It’s an invitation to wisdom.

Rodger Otero | Our world needs fewer people who unmake peace, and more people who make peace.

Reese LeRoy | God is love, yet His perfect and protecting love requires Him to hate anything that seeks to harm or diminish those He loves. In this look at Proverbs 6, we will see how the way of wisdom calls us to rid our own lives of the behaviors God opposes and to avoid those who practice them.

Reese LeRoy | Proverbs has a lot to say about the wonderful satisfaction sex can bring when we follow God’s guidelines, and the devastating pain it can bring to us and to those close to us when we choose to ignore them. Proverbs 5 helps us explore the purpose, power, and preciousness of sex.

Angela Otero | Making use of those things that help to bring us closer to God and leaving aside those things that don’t.

Rodger Otero | Particularly when the stakes are high and the path forward is unclear, what we need is spiritual discernment.

Reese LeRoy | In our series on Proverbs, we focus on the introductory talks from a father to his son and the poems of “Lady Wisdom.”  These chapters provide the foundation for reading the rest of the book and show us how God invites us to gain wisdom from Him and to express it in our lives for this generation and for future ones.

Reese LeRoy | In this new series on Proverbs, we start right at the beginning of wisdom with “the fear of the Lord” (Proverbs 10:9).  We see how awe and reverence for God and a healthy respect for His definition of good and evil serves us well as we navigate everyday life.