You are invited to pause and pray with others at this time of your day
You may wish to pray for others
You may wish to revisit the Daily Devotions for today’s Bible verses
You may wish to be still in God’s Presence as your day closes
You are invited to pause and pray with others at this time of your day
You may wish to pray for others
You may wish to revisit the Daily Devotions for today’s Bible verses
You may wish to be still in God’s Presence as your day closes
“The LORD is my shepherd,
I shall not be in want.’”
Psalm 23 verse 1
During 2020 we have been looking at standing on the promises of God – as well as dipping into a Psalm most weekends – pausing in prayer at our times of Midday Devotion for others in our church family, our city and our world at this time.
In July we take the time each day to consider words from the PSALMS – including the verses of Psalm 23 each weekend.
We are all encouraged to pause and listen for God’s voice and make our response as we journey together in our ‘rhythm of devotion’ during this year of 2020.
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 July
Loving Father,
We face a wide river and we long to reach the other side;
And we must use the stepping stones offered to us.
You say, ’When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
When you pass through rivers, they will not sweep over you’.
Our trust is in you, O Lord.
In Jesus’ name. Amen
(Isaiah 43.2)
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
You are invited to pause and pray with others at this time of the day
You may wish to pray for others
You may wish to revisit the Daily Devotions for today’s prayer focus
You may wish to be still in God’s Presence
Upper Room day – time out with God
Evening Gathering for Prayer with BI churches
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus, Saviour and Lord
Reading : 1 JOHN 5 verses 6-12
Meditation : take time and consider this passage this morning.
The testimony of the Spirit.
Which words or images stay with you?
What are you encouraged and challenged by today?
Pray in response to what you have read
Taking time to pause and listen for God’s answer to you
O Lord
Speak to us
Speak to me
By name
And help me hear
What the Spirit is saying in these days
To me
To my family
To my Church
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
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 the passage again from 1 JOHN 5
Reflect on the words…. and then Pray….to the LORD our God
Living God, our God,
We bring our evening worship to you
As we lay ourselves and our families before you
As we acknowledge what you are saying to us at this time
O keep us in step with the Spirit!
In Jesus’ name.
Amen and Amen.
You are invited to pause and pray with others at this time of the day
You may wish to pray for others
You may wish to revisit the Daily Devotions for today’s prayer focus
You may wish to be still in God’s Presence
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit
Reading : 1 JOHN 4 verses 13-21
Meditation : take time to consider these words as your day starts.
Loving God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit
What do they mean for you in your life at this time?
Then Pray with honesty in response to the LORD our God
(Pray your own words at the start of this day
Of praise and thanksgiving
Of confession and trust
For our nation
For our world)
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Midday
Pray God’s blessing on the materials in the Perspex boxes at our gates
God of grace and mercy and rich blessing, hear our prayers we ask.
Evening
Reading : read these verses again from 1 JOHN chapter 4
Reflect prayerfully on what you read and then pray to our God in response
Eternal and Faithful One, Loving God, hear my evening prayers
As I lay myself and this world before you at the end of today
As I name before you those I love
As I name before you those I struggle to love
In Jesus’ name, Amen.