On Friday, May 17, Bethlehem College and Seminary held our fifteenth annual commencement exercises. This service of Godward celebration featured stirring testimonies from three graduating students, an address from Chancellor John Piper, and a charge from Pastor Steven Lee. By God’s grace, we conferred degrees on fifty Bethlehem graduates who will, we pray, make a disproportionate impact for Jesus Christ in their homes, churches, neighborhoods, and workplaces.
Here is my prayer for these men and women as they launch into life and ministry to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ.
Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.You are our Maker, our Sustainer, our Rock, our Redeemer; you are our God. You have been ever faithful to these dear graduates day after day, semester after semester, year after year. You have strengthened them, helped them, and upheld them with your strong right hand, and you have equipped them for every good work.
So I pray that you will make these men and women worthy of your calling and fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by your power, that your name may be exalted.
Satisfy them in the morning with your steadfast love, that they may rejoice and be glad all their days. Make them glad even in times of sorrow and affliction and show forth your glorious power in and through them. May your favor be upon them, O everlasting God, and establish the work of their hands, for your glory and their joy.
Brian Tabb, Ph.D.
President & Professor of Biblical Studies
Prayer Requests:
- Pray for our graduates as they launch into life and ministry.
- Pray for our students and faculty as they rest, minister, and work this summer.
- Pray for the full funding of the Serious Joy Scholarships needed by June 30.