Category: Celtic Devotions

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit

Reading : Isaiah 52 verses 13-15

Meditation : take time to consider these 3 verses as your day starts.
What do these verses say to you?
Who is the Suffering Servant to you?

Pray in response to what you have considered

(Pray your own words at the start of this day
Of praise and worship
Of confession and trust
Of understanding and need)
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on those living and working in refugee camps across our world.
O Lord, hear our prayers.

Evening

Reading : read these 3 verses again from Isaiah 52

Reflect on their meaning and then pray to God in response
Father God, hear my evening prayers.

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit

Reading : Isaiah 50 verses 1-11

Meditation : consider again what is said here in these verses.
What is God saying afresh to you?

And then Pray in response to what God’s Word says

O God,
Hear my prayer
And help me I ask
To be more like Jesus
In every way
Even today.
Amen.

Midday

Pray the words of the Lord’s Prayer as your own midday prayer
(see Matthew 6 or under the Prayer tab on LK website)

Father God, hear our prayers we ask.

Evening

Reading : read these 11 verses again

Reflect on the truths behind the words…. and then Pray to this God
LORD God, our God, hear our evening prayers.

Good Friday

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus

Reading :   Mark 15 verses 21-47

Meditation : take the time to consider these verses today….and what they mean for you…on this particular day

And then Pray in response as God leads you
Amen – we pray together on this day

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on those swimming upstream in life
Father God, hear our prayers and bless them real good we ask 

Evening

Reading : read the verses again from Mark 15

Reflect slowly on the events recorded here read and pray in response
Lord Jesus, we can but bow down in praise before you
Thank you. Thank you.

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Father God

Reading : Isaiah 50 verses 4-6

Meditation : consider these words this morning….are they true for you?
In what ways is God making you more like Jesus?

Then turn the words into your morning prayer

‘To be like Jesus
This is my aim
This is my prayer’

Amen.

Midday

Take time to listen for God to speak with you at this time of day
Ask….seek….knock…..listen….hear!

Thank you, Lord.

Evening

Reading : read verses 4-6 again

Reflect on these words…. and pray in response as they speak to you
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from the LORD God, the Eternal One

Reading : Isaiah 50 verses 1-3

Meditation : consider these 3 verses again today.
Look again at verse 2.
What was God saying then and what is God saying to you today?

Pray in response to Him – the Saviour God

LORD God,
Thank you that you have not stopped rescuing and saving!
Oh save and rescue one and another today we call out.
Amen and amen we pray together this day.

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on those who find it hard to forgive another
LORD, hear our prayers 

Evening

Reading : read these particular verses again

Reflect on their meaning and pray in response…for someone else
Saviour God, hear our evening prayers.

PALM SUNDAY

The Way of the Cross –   Costly Obedience

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit, on this Sunday

Reading : Isaiah 50 verses 1-11

Meditation : take time to consider these words as your day starts about Israel’s sin and the LORD’s Servant.
What words stay with you?
What is your response to God’s Word this morning?

Take time to Pray in response to Israel’s God, our God.

LORD God,
Hear my prayer of this morning
And help me take it in
All that the Suffering Servant did for me.
In Jesus’ name I ask.
Amen.

Midday

Pray for God’s Church in our world to know Palm Sunday blessings
O God, hear our prayers.

Evening

Reading : read these verses again

Reflect on the truths beyond the words and then Pray with thanks to our God …
O Father, Son and Holy Spirit, hear our prayers.