Daily Devotions for 1st January 2017

DARE TO BE A DANIEL

Morning

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

Reading : DANIEL chapter 1
Meditation :  take time and consider all that happened here.
What did Daniel say and do?
What is God saying to you today?

Pray to have Daniel’s heart attitude

God of Daniel,
My God,
Hear my morning prayer I ask
And make me more like the Servant King.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen

Midday

Pray for your Church Family to know Sunday blessings through 2017
God of amazing grace, hear our prayers

Evening

Reading : read the verses again
Reflect on daring Daniel and Pray to this God

LORD God, hear my evening prayer.

Daily Devotions 31st December 2016

REVELATION Time at the close of the year

Morning

Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit

Reading : Revelation 22 verses 18-21
Meditation : consider the final words here from the Bible…..
What is God saying to you today? What has He been saying to you through Revelation?

and Pray with the words of verses 20 and 21

Lord Jesus,
Come!
And make me a person
Who lives daily with this hope,
Of your coming again to this world
And of a New Heaven and a New Earth!
Amen we pray together this day.

Midday

Pray for the Church in our land and our world to know rich blessings in 2017

O LORD, hear our prayers we ask.

Evening

Reading : read the verses again from the end of Revelation

Reflect on the truths and then Pray in response as the year closes

LORD God, our God, hear our prayers on this particular day.
Thank you for Your Word of Truth
And that You reign over everything – for ever and ever.
Make me a person of hope – deep trusting hope in Jesus,
King of kings, Lord of lords,
And may Your Church live ever ready for His return.
Amen and Amen.

Daily Devotions 30th December 2016

Morning

Pray to hear and receive from Jesus

Reading : Revelation 22 verses 7-17
Meditation : take time and consider that JESUS IS COMING AGAIN!
What does that mean for you? Who will you tell today?

Pray in response to Him

Come Lord Jesus,
Come!
Amen – we pray together.

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on Tim Sinclair and his wife Judith, probationer at LK
Father God, hear our prayers and bless them real good we ask 

Evening

Reading : read these verses again

Reflect on these truths and pray in response to Him who is the Alpha and Omega

Lord Jesus, hear our evening prayers.

Daily Devotions 29th December 2016

Morning

Pray to hear and receive from Father God

Reading : Revelation 22 verses 1-6
Meditation :   take time and consider this River of Life and what it means for you.

And then take time to pray in response to God, the Giver of Life

(Pray your own words to the LORD God
In worship and thanks for what you have read,
In confession and need to receive,
For yourself and for others.)
O LORD, receive our praise and hear our prayers.
Amen.

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on all our elders at Liberton Kirk
Lord, hear our prayers we ask and bless each real good.

Evening

Reading : read these 6 verses again

Reflect on these verses at the end of your day and what John saw

and Pray in response to this God
O LORD, hear our evening prayers

Daily Devotions 28th December 2016

Morning

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

Reading :   Revelation 21
Meditation : consider all that happens here…..try to imagine it all.
What is God saying to you today?

then pray in response to Him – with great hope!

O LORD our God,
Powerful and eternal God,
God of hope beyond death,
And of all things new,
Thank you for these words
And all they teach me.
May my hope in You
Encourage someone else today.
Amen and amen!

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on Linda Wright, pastoral worker at LK
O LORD, hear our prayers

Evening

Reading : read verses 22-27 again

Reflect on the images and then pray in response to God all-powerful

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

Daily Devotions 27th December 2016

Morning

Pray to hear and receive from Jesus, Saviour and Lord

Reading : Revelation 20 verses 11-15
Meditation : take time to consider these future events and what they mean for you.

Pray in response to be ever ready

Lord Jesus,
I believe
Help my unbelief….Even now…
And make me truly ever ready to see You again.
In Your name I ask, Amen.

Midday

Pray God’s blessing on Ruth Davies, our Reader at LK
O Lord, hear our prayers

Evening

Reading : read these 5 verses again

Reflect on the facts given here and then Pray….to the God of perfect judgment

God of all tomorrow,
I trust in You.
Amen and Amen.