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Daily Devotions for 2nd August, 2018

Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit
Reading : JOHN chapter 18

Meditation : take time and consider all that is said and done here.
What words or images stay with you?
What is God saying to you today and what is your response to Him?

Take time to Pray in response to this Jesus

O Lord Jesus,
I can but bow before you.
Amen and Amen.

Midday
Pray God’s blessing on the trypraying booklets available outside the Kirk Centre
And the Big Alpha invitations outside the Offering House
O LORD God, have mercy on each and all who takes one or other – or both.

Evening
Reading : read the chapter again
Reflect on Jesus in these words and images and then Pray in response as your day ends
Father God, hear my evening prayer
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Daily Devotions for August 2018

‘Your word, O LORD, will last for ever; it is eternal in heaven.’
Psalm 119 verse 89

As the summer months approach and the season of Looking INWARD together moves toward Looking OUTWARD this Autumn, so we are travelling through the Bible in June, July and August – (yes from Genesis to Revelation!) – and pausing in prayer at our times of Midday Devotion for others in our church family, our city and our world.
Please do remember to keep BIG ALPHA on your prayer list as we move together towards this venture in the Autumn…. the weeks are counting down now to the Taster Evening at the end of August!

We are all encouraged to listen for God’s voice as we continue together in our ‘rhythm of devotion’ during 2018.

A Prayer for the Month of August

Spirit of God
Continue
To Speak
To us
To teach us
To lead us
From the Bible
That we might
Keep in step with You
And
Know God better
Love Him more
In Jesus’ name
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 Saturday 28th July, 2018

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

Reading : LUKE 15

Meditation : take the time to consider these 3 parables told by Jesus.
Which one do you relate to most?
What are you encouraged and challenged by?

And then take time to Pray in your own words in response to this God of amazing grace
Giving thanks to Him that He has been there for you.
Giving thanks for those who reached out to you in life.
Naming before Him those lost known to you.

Amen we pray together this day.

Midday
Pray God’s blessing on Gracemount Church
God of grace and mercy…pour out a fresh blessing we ask this weekend.

Evening
Reading : read Luke 15 again
Reflect on the words and images…. and then Pray in response to what you have read
LORD God, our God, hear our evening prayers.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Pray for Big ALPHA

MATTHEW 28.16-20

The Great Commission
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Pray for BIG Alpha

Matthew 22 New International Version (NIV)

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
“Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.
“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”