Tag: Alpha

With a week to go until the Launch Event we pause and pray this morning

for all the final preparations
for those making plans to attend
for those still undecided

for the Task Team members
for Kenny – who will MC the Quiz
for Nick Blair – the guest speaker

‘I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit,
the kind of fruit that endures.’ John 15 verse 16

In September we take the time each day to spend with God and His Word as we conclude the Sunday series Fruitfulness on the Frontline and start the Big ALPHA venture – pausing in prayer at our times of Midday Devotion for others
in our church family, our city and our world at this time of the year.
The Sunday devotion also includes a new element – a Celtic liturgy prayer from a book by Pat Robson called A Celtic Liturgy.
We are all encouraged to listen for God’s voice as we continue together in our ‘rhythm of devotion’ during 2018.

These 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 the day and even 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 which we started as a church family in 2015.

Morning
Reading and Meditation on the content and 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 of September

Lord Jesus
As we hear You
May we obey You
As we see You
May we follow You

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

Big Alpha Taster Evening

Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Father God
Reading : REVELATION chapters 19 and 20

Meditation : take time and consider these words this morning.
What do they mean for you today?
Look again at verse 11-15 of chapter 20 as your turn to prayer

then pray in response – as your day starts

(Pray your own words to the LORD God
In worship and thanks for what you have read,
In confession and need to be more like Jesus,
And to speak up for Him – even today while there is time.)

O LORD, receive our praise and hear our prayers
As we give thanks to you
As we look forward to the wedding feast
As we seek to lead others to Jesus in this world.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Midday
Pray God’s blessing on the Big Alpha Taster Evening tonight
God of grace…hear our prayers and pour a blessing we ask on each and all

Evening
Reading : read these chapters again
Reflect on the words and images – at the end of your day
and Pray in response to this God – our God
O LORD, hear our evening prayers
As we look upward and forward.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.