Category: Celtic Devotions

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus

Reading :   LUKE 4 verses 14-30

Meditation : take time and consider all that happens and is said here.
What do these verses teach you about God’s Good News?
What words do you struggle with? What encourages you this morning?

Pray in response – using verses 18 and 19 

Spirit of the living LORD
Send preachers of the Good News
Give freedom to those imprisoned by life’s circumstances
Recover sight for the blind
Release the oppressed
In our day we call out!

Amen – we pray together.

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on the multicultural Church across Europe

Father God, hear our prayers and bless them all real good we ask

Evening

Reading : read these particular verses again from Luke 4

Reflect on this Jesus and pray in response to Him for your church and the church worldwide

Jesus, Son of God and our Lord, hear our evening prayers.
Send forth the Spirit to all who believe and trust in you – and beyond!

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Father God

Reading : LUKE 5 verses 17-26

Meditation :   take time and consider this amazing scene!
What does it say to you about Jesus? about our Christian faith?
What is your response to God’s Word today? 

then pray in response – lifting another to God for healing

(Pray your own words to the LORD God
In worship and thanks for what you have read,
In confession and need,
For yourself and for another.) 

O LORD God, receive our praise and hear our prayers this morning
As we wait on you to change lives – in unexpected ways.
In Jesus’ name,   Amen.

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on those who serve on our Alpha Task Team

Lord, hear our prayers we ask and bless them real good!

Evening

Reading : read these verses again

Reflect again on these events at the end of your day

and Pray in response to this great God of ours

LORD God, our God, hear our evening prayers
As we lift another before you.

In Jesus’ name,   Amen.

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Three in One

Reading : LUKE 6 verses 1-11

Take time to consider what happens here.
What images stay with you?
Look again at verses 8-10 as you turn to God in prayer.

And pray for another as your day starts

O LORD our God,
Hear my prayer
This morning

In Jesus’ name,
Amen

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on all those who work in our local schools

O LORD, thank you for them all – bless them muchly – even today!

Evening

Reading : read these particular 11 verses again from Luke 6

Reflect on the words and events and then pray in response to this Jesus

Lord Jesus, our Saviour, hear our evening prayers.
We believe – help our unbelief.

Upper Room day

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus, Saviour and Lord

Reading : LUKE 7 verses 1-17

Meditation : take time and consider what happens here in these verses.
Lives truly changed by God’s power through Jesus!
What is God saying to you today?

Then take time to Pray in response to this Jesus

Lord Jesus,
I read of changed lives!
I believe in your healing power
Help my unbelief….Even now
And use even me to reach out to others.

In Your name I ask, Amen.

Midday

Take time to listen for God to speak with you at this time of day
Ask…Seek…Knock……Hear

Lord…thank you.

Evening

Reading : read these particular verses again from Luke 7

Reflect….on the events and then Pray….to this Christ Jesus

Amen we pray together at the end of this day.

Morning

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

Reading : LUKE 8 verses 26-39

Meditation : take time to consider these verses as your day starts.
What images or words stay with you?
What is God saying to you today?

Then Pray in response to this Jesus

(Pray your own words at the start of this day
Of praise and worship
Of confession and trust
Of understanding and need
For yourself and for others) 

Amazing grace that saved a wretch like me!
In Jesus’ name, Amen!

Midday

Pray God’s blessings on the Church located across our city of Edinburgh

O Lord…have mercy on all we ask and build your Church!

Evening

Reading : read these verses again from Luke 8

Reflect on all that happens and then pray to God in response

Father God, hear my evening prayers
And continue to change my life.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

‘Desperate Need’

Morning

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

Reading : LUKE 8 verses 40-56

Meditation :  take time to consider these words – and ALL that happens here!  What images do you have? What words stay with you?
What is God saying to you today from this passage?

and then pray to this Jesus – for yourself and for others

O Lord Jesus,
As I read these words
I thank you for who you are
And I name before you
Those I ask you would touch and heal
For the Father’s glory.

Amen.

Midday

Pray Sunday blessings on our BBC group at LK.

O LORD, our God, hear our plea today.
In Jesus’ name,   Amen.

Evening

Reading : read the verses again from Luke 8

Reflect on the words and events and then Pray in response to this Jesus

O Lord Jesus, hear our evening prayers we ask
As we thank you for Sunday blessings
And name before you others known to us in need.

Amen!