Tag: devotions

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus

Reading :   1 Peter 4 verses 8-11

Meditation : take time and consider these words from Peter to other Christians.
What do they teach you about God’s people in this world?
What is God’s Word to you this morning?

Take time to Pray in response to God’s Word as He leads you.  

In Jesus’ name,
Amen – we pray together.

Midday

Pray God’s blessings of love, joy and peace on the Church in Vietnam.
Father God, have mercy and hear our prayers. 

Evening

Reading : read these few verses again from 1 Peter

Reflect on this part of God’s Word and pray in response to Him
for your church and the church worldwide in these days

Lord Jesus, hear our evening prayers.

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Father God

Reading : 1 Peter 4 verse 7

Meditation :   take time and consider all that is said here in this one verse.
What words do you focus on?
What is God saying to you this morning? What is your response to Him?

then pray in response

(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,
For yourself and for others.) 

O LORD, receive our praise and hear our prayers,
And by Your Holy Spirit may these be true and living for me.

Amen.

Midday

Pray God’s blessings of grace and peace on the Church in Malaysia.
O Father God, have mercy and hear our prayers.

Evening

Reading : read verse 7 again

Reflect slowly on these words at the end of your day
and Pray in response to this God who inspired them

O LORD, hear our evening prayers and work out these truths even in my life.

Morning

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

Reading : 1 Peter 4 verses 5 and 6

Meditation : consider this morning what these 2 verse teach you about our God….

then pray in response to Him

O LORD God,
Powerful and eternal God,
God of hope beyond death,
God of judgment beyond death,
Thank you for these words
And all they teach me.
May my hope in You
Help me through this day on earth
I so pray
In Jesus’ name,

Amen and amen!

Midday

Pray God’s blessings of grace and peace on the Church in Sri Lanka
O Sovereign Lord, have mercy and hear our prayers.

Evening

Reading : read these 2 verses again

Reflect on the words you have read and then pray in response, for yourself and for others

LORD God, Father God, our God, hear our evening prayers

Upper Room Day

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Father God

Reading : 1 Peter 4 verses 3 and 4

Meditation : consider carefully these verses this morning.
What do these words say to you? What is God saying to you today?

Pray in response to what you have read

Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
I have read these words.
Here I am.
Use even me I ask
To reach others
Even today.

In Jesus’ Name
Amen.

Midday

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

Spirit of the Living God, thank you. 

Evening

Reading : read verses 2 particular again

Reflect on the words…. and pray for others in response

LORD God, our great God,
Bless those I name before You by your amazing grace.
In Jesus’ powerful name, Amen.

Morning

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

Reading : 1 Peter 4 verses 1 and 2

Meditation : take time and consider these 2 verses…..
Note verse 2 again – what does it mean for you – today?

Pray in response to know God’s grace – even today

Father God,
I read
I believe
I receive
….Even now
Help me
….Even now

In Jesus’ name I ask, Amen.

Midday

Pray God’s blessings of peace and grace on the Church in India
Lord, have mercy and hear our prayers.

Evening

Reading : read these particular verses again

Reflect on this God of Peter’s and then Pray to Him at the end of this day,|
Giving thanks for His amazing grace and gift of eternal salvation in and through Christ Jesus

O LORD God, our God, hear our prayers.

Living to the Glory of God

Morning

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

Reading : 1 Peter 4 verses 1-11

Meditation :  take time and consider these words about Christian living.
What is God saying to you from them – today?

and then pray humbly in response, to this God

O LORD God,
As I read these words
Make them true in my life
And help me this day
To bring honour to your name.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Midday

Pray for the Church in our land to know Sunday blessings!
O LORD, our God, hear our cry!

Evening

Reading : read these 11 verses again

Reflect on the words penned by Peter and then Pray in response to our eternal God

O LORD, hear our evening prayers we ask, as we return our Sunday praises to you.