Hallowed Be Your Name in My Neighborhood

Church Family: 
Do you see the moment God has given us? Right here, Pender County is among the top three fastest growing counties in North Carolina, with Pender’s population rising over 21% since 2020, adding tens of thousands of new neighbors in just a few years. This is not an accident; the Lord has placed GCT as a living witness in a county that is swelling with people who need hope, a church family, and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

God our Father has planted us here not as spectators, but as willing instruments in His hands. As neighborhoods burgeon and thousands move in without a church home, He invites us to pray boldly: “Father, use us to hallow Your name right here!” (Matthew 6:9).

When Jesus taught us, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name,” He wasn’t giving us empty words. This is to be our daily cry to our perfect Heavenly Father, the One who heard Israel’s groans in Egypt, who came down to rescue them as their Redeemer, who now works powerfully through us, His children, GCT. We don’t pray this to earn His favor; we ask Him to align our hearts with His passion, to make us a people who multiply His glory in Pender County and around the world.

“Hallowed be Your name” means pleading for God to make His Word trusted, His displeasure feared, His commands obeyed, and His name glorified in our midst. Father, use us as GCT! Make unbelief turn to faith in Hampstead’s new neighborhoods. Ignite obedience that builds welcoming, gospel homes from Sneads Ferry to Wilmington to Burgaw. Let Your name shine bright in us, drawing the unchurched to worship You as God, their Heavenly Father.

This is what Jesus calls GCT to do as a new church in a county that is booming with new neighbors: to lift up informed, personal, surrendered prayers. “Father, take our schedules, homes, families and hands to be used by You so that Your Kingdom will be more fully present on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10).

GCT, let us do as Jesus says: “Go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” Fall before your Father daily, asking, “Use me to hallow Your name here in Hampstead.” Let’s watch Him use us to transform strangers in our neighborhoods into brothers and sisters in Christ. And this will be our undeniable testimony: God did that… through us, for His glory, in this fast-growing county in His universe that He upholds by the word of His power. Let’s pray this together. Let’s live this together. Father, use us now!

See you Sunday, rewarded: Steve