You are invited to pause and pray with others in our Church Family at this time in your day
The Midday focus from today’s Daily Devotions….
Pray God’s blessing on the land and people of Algeria
O LORD, hear our prayers and bless them real good we ask.
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus, Saviour and Lord
Reading : 1 KINGS 19 verses 1-18
Meditation : take time to consider this part of the Bible and all that happens!
Elijah on Mount Sinai.
What words or images stay with you?
What is God saying to you from His Written Word?
Pray in response to what you have read
Looking again at verse 11-13
O LORD, hear our cry!
Have mercy we ask
Show us where to go
Send us
Even today!
In and through Christ Jesus, Amen.
Midday
Pray God’s blessing on the land and people of Algeria
O LORD, hear our prayers and bless them real good we ask.
Evening
Reading : read these words again from 1 KING 19
Reflect on the events and words recorded here and then Pray in response
LORD God, our God, hear our evening prayers,
As we confess our failures
As we lift up to you
Our circumstances
Today
Tomorrow
And others responding to your call
At this time
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
As your Sunday closes you are invited to pause in God’s presence as you step into a new weeek
On this particular Sunday..as the nation journeys through this further stage of Lockdown.. you are invited to pause and pray with others in our city and across the nation…to the LORD our God, our Father God.
We are now pausing to pray at 6pm each day instead of 5pm as a result of the fresh Call to Prayer yesterday across the nation and the world from the Thy Kingdom Come prayer venture.
You are encouraged to pray for all those affected by the coronavirus
For family and friends
For all church leaders in our villages and towns and cities at this time
For NHS and Care Home staff across the nation
For our country and our national leaders at this time of decision making
You give me strength for the battle
and victory over my enemies.
Psalm 18 verse 39
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from the Living God
Reading : PSALM 18 verses 37-45
Meditation : take time to consider this part of the Psalm on this Sunday.
You give me strength for the battle and victory over my enemies.
What does this part of the Bible teach you today?
What is your response?
And then pray in response,
Using the verses as part of your own prayer
O God
Give help and strength
And protection and safety
For this day
To others
To your Church in hard places
In Jesus’ Name, Amen
Midday
Pray the words of the Prayer for the Month as your own prayer today
God of the journey,
You call us to follow you
Without fear of stumbling,
Your hand held out
To steady the weakest soul.
Grant us faith strong enough
To take you at your word
And, should we struggle,
To know you’re with us along the way.
Through Christ our Saviour
Amen.
Evening
Reading : read these set verses again from Psalm 18
Reflect on the words and images and then Pray in response at the end of your day
You give me strength for the battle
and victory over my enemies.
Thank you O my God and Saviour,
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
