Category: Celtic Devotions

Daily Devotions for 2nd January 2018

Morning

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

Reading : PSALM 8

Meditation :   take time to consider these words – note verses 3-5 and 9 again.

What is God saying to you today about Himself? What is your response to Him? 

Pray in response – using these verses in your morning prayer

O Living and True God,
O LORD, our Lord,
Hear our morning prayers and praises

In Jesus’ name,
Amen we say together.

Midday

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

Father God…thank you.

Evening

Reading : read these 9 verses again

Reflect on these words – and Pray in response

(Pray your own words at the end of this day
Words of worship and praise – for who God is
Words of trust and thanks – for what God has done today for you
Words of hope and longing – for what God will do in and through you – even tomorrow)

In Jesus’ name,  Amen and Amen.

Daily Devotions for 2nd January, 2018

Morning

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

Reading : PSALM 8

Meditation :   take time to consider these words – note verses 3-5 and 9 again.

What is God saying to you today about Himself? What is your response to Him? 

Pray in response – using these verses in your morning prayer

O Living and True God,
O LORD, our Lord,
Hear our morning prayers and praises

In Jesus’ name,
Amen we say together.

Midday

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

Father God…thank you.

Evening

Reading : read these 9 verses again

Reflect on these words – and Pray in response

(Pray your own words at the end of this day
Words of worship and praise – for who God is
Words of trust and thanks – for what God has done today for you
Words of hope and longing – for what God will do in and through you – even tomorrow)

In Jesus’ name, Amen and Amen.

Daily Devotions for 1st January, 2018

Morning

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

Reading : PSALM 2

Meditation : consider this psalm as your day starts. What image or words stay with you?  What is God saying to you today about Himself as your year starts?

What is your response to Him?

Pray in response to this God……..‘The One enthroned in heaven’

LORD God,
Have mercy,
Show your power and astonish us even today
As you hear our morning prayers

In Jesus’ name,
Amen.

Midday

Pray the Prayer for the Month as your midday prayer
(See in the magazine or online under the Prayer tab on LK website)

God of grace and mercy…in You we trust…hear our prayers.

Evening

Reading :   read the Psalm again

Reflect on all that is said and pray in response…to the God of sovereign power

O Living and True God, hear our evening prayers.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Daily Devotions for January 2018

‘Come, let us praise the LORD!
Let us come before him with thanksgiving….
For the LORD is a mighty God, a mighty king over all the gods.’

Psalm 95 verses 1-3           

As we welcome 2018 we lift our eyes Upward to the LORD our God, the Mighty King, King of kings and Lord of lords!   Our focus for the year as a church family is ‘Treasure in Jars of Clay’…..and we have Big Alpha at Liberton Kirk in the autumn months very much now on the horizon!

We are encouraged to spend time with the LORD our God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit each and every day, to ‘read the Bible, pray every day’ seeking to become more like Jesus as we open up to the Holy Spirit at work in us as individuals, as part of a group and as a church family.

The Daily Devotions are but one way to feed on God’s Word in the morning, at midday, in the evening… to pray with Him continually through your day and to share with others the treasures or hurdles you discover. The Church website and Facebook page (even on a handy mobile) provide a fuller daily devotional page. However it all follows the pattern below which the information provided fits into, based on the Kirk’s origins of the Celtic and Northumbrian traditions. It was these traditions that gave birth to the Daily Devotions in early 2015.

Morning
Reading and Meditation on the content and a Prayer of response
Midday
Prayer – mostly for others
Evening
Verse(s) from the morning reading
Reflection and Prayer at the end of the day 

A Prayer for the Month

A Prayer for the Month of January

O Worship the King
Great and glorious above

Praise my soul this King of heaven
Great and glorious above!

Jesus name above all names
Great and glorious above!

I worship You
I love You
I serve You

Here and now
On earth below.

And one day
I shall see You
Face to face
And gladly bow the knee
In heaven above.

Hallelujah!

Praise the LORD!

Amen!

 

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven Hallowed be Your Name. Your kingdom come Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our sins As we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory. Now and for ever.

Amen

Daily Devotions for Sunday 31st December, 2017

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from the Living God

Reading : JOHN 3 verses 22-36

Meditation :  take time and consider these words as your year ends.

What words stay with you? What is your response to God’s Word today?

and then pray in response – to God, the Eternal one, as this year ends and 2018 draws near

O LORD God,

Eternal
Loving
Giving
Receive our praise
And
Help us
Oh help us
To lift the name of Jesus
Higher than any other
Today and tomorrow
And forever!

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Midday

Pray for your church family to know God’s Kingdom blessings

O LORD, God of mercy, hear our cry and pour our blessings we ask.
In Jesus’ name,   Amen.

Evening

Reading : read these particular verses again from John 3

Reflect on the words and truths and then Pray in response as your day ends

O LORD, hear our evening prayers we ask.
Receive our praise for all the blessings of 2017
And lead us, oh lead us, into and through 2018.
May we see Your Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven
In us. Through us.
In our world.

In Jesus’ name,   Amen and Amen.

Thy Kingdom Come #Pause

As part of the Thy Kingdom Come prayer venture earlier this year we have been pausing on a Saturday morning and asking, seeking and knocking on heaven’s door.

Today, as Christmas week ends and 2018 approaches, we are encouraged to find a place and space and pause in prayer with the Living God….taking time to seek first His kingdom.

Oh LORD God at this time of the year we pause in Your presence.
We acknowledge Your Kingdom reign in our lives.
We ask You to help us put Your Kingdom first
At work, rest and play
As this week ends
And as a new year approaches.
We ask these things in Jesus’ name,  Amen.

#ThyKingdomCome #pause