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Daily Devotions for Monday 29th June, 2020

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.

Call to Evening Prayer

You are invited to pause and pray with others at this time in your Sunday

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 and you look back on your day

Daily Devotions for Sunday 28th June, 2020

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

Reading : REVELATION 3 verses 14-22

Meditation : take time to consider this part of the Bible.
The message to the Church in Laodicea.
What are you encouraged and challenged by?
Which part of the message stays with you?

And then pray in response to what you have read

O God of greatness
We bow before you
We believe in you
We trust in you
Protect your Church
Bless your Church
Use your Church
In these times
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Midday
Pray the words of the Lord’s Prayer as your own Midday 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

Evening
Reading : read these particular verses again from REVELATION 3
Reflect on the words and images and then Pray in response to this God, our God

O LORD, hear our evening prayers we ask
As we pause in your presence
As we thank you for the blessings of this Sunday
As we believe and trust in you
As we pilgrimage on towards tomorrow
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Call to Evening Prayer

You are invited to pause and pray with others at this time in your Saturday

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

#niteblessing

Daily Devotions for Saturday 27th June, 2020

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

Reading : REVELATION 3 verses 7-13

Meditation : take time to consider this part of the Bible.
The message to the Church in Philadelphia.
What are you encouraged and challenged by?
Which part of the message stays with you?

And then take time to Pray in response to this God
For yourself
For your church
For the Church in our land

Amen we pray in praise together this new day.

Midday
Pray the Prayer for the Month as your midday prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, live in me and transform my life.
You are a most precious gift, the breath of the living God.
You bring certainty to my trembling uncertainties, focus to my disorientation.
You bring companionship in my loneliness, comfort in my sadness,
strength for my weakness, courage for my fearfulness, hope in my despair.

Come, Holy Spirit, live in me and transform my life.
You have the power to change my mundane into your special,
the power to lift my earthbound self to your glory,
the power to change my monochrome to glorious technicolour,
the power to make me, even me, your light in the world.

Come, Holy Spirit, live in me and transform my life.
Amen.

Evening
Reading : read the verses again from REVELATION 3.7-13
Reflect on the words…. and then Pray in response to what you have read

LORD God, our God, hear our evening prayers
As we pause in your presence
As we worship you for who you are
As we thank you for your help this day
And name others before you
In Jesus’ name, Amen.