Tag: Jars of Clay

Together We Pray

As part of the national call to pray together from the Church of Scotland, today we pause and pray for our community of Liberton and SE Edinburgh. We include a prayer provided under the heading of Peace for the Whole Community.

We pray for all those who live and work around us.
We pray for those who serve us in nurseries and schools, medical centres and businesses.
We pray for those who work in local government positions.

Dear Lord, as I arise this day, may I put on
the cloak of your love,
the power of your shoes,
the wisdom of your hat,
the peace of your prayer stole,
to equip me for all that I do, with all whom I meet,
and so to extend the reach
of your love, power and wisdom
through the whole community.
Amen.

God of grace and mercy and compassion,
Hear our prayers
for all those who live in the streets and new houses around us
for all those who work in and serve this community of ours
that each and all may know You
and demonstrate your love
and wisdom
and justice
and mercy
to each and all.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Pray for BIG Alpha

2 Chronicles 6 verses 12-21

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. 13 Now he had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had placed it in the center of the outer court. He stood on the platform and then knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.
14 He said: “Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way. 15 You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it—as it is today.

16 “Now, Lord, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.’ 17 And now, Lord, the God of Israel, let your word that you promised your servant David come true.

18 “But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! 19 Yet, Lord my God, give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence. 20 May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. 21 Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

Daily Devotions for 30th October, 2018

Upper Room day
Evening Gathering for Prayer

Morning

Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus, Saviour and Lord
Reading : MATTHEW 18 verses 1-9

Meditation : take time and consider these words this morning.
What is your response to God’s Word today?

Pray in response to what you have read – for yourself and for others

Oh Father God,
Hear our morning prayers
For ourselves
Our families
Our neighbours
Our Church family this evening.
In Jesus’ wonderful 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 verses again
Reflect on the words and then Pray….to the LORD our Father God
God of love and amazing grace
We bring our evening prayers to you
In Jesus’ name.
Amen and Amen.

UPPER Room and Gathering for Prayer

Once again Tuesday becomes Upper Room day in the Wilson Hall above the Café.

An opportunity to take time-out
With God

at the Cross

Space
Sofas
Bibles
Cushions
Candles
Music
Window views
all available

7.30am – 7.15pm

with opportunities to pray with others
7.30-8am
12-12.30pm
7-7.15pm

The Café will be open below from 9am.

In the evening we gather as a Church Family to Pray together in the Kirk 7.30-8.45pm.
This month we are focussing on the national call to prayer from the Church of Scotland
to pray for our nation, our community, our Church, ourselves as God’s People.

Holy Spirit Day at Big Alpha

Today you are invited to join with those attending this event in the Kirk today and to pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit – in your life, in the lives of others known to you, in our church, in our land.

Ezekiel 37 New International Version (NIV)
The Valley of Dry Bones

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”

Daily Devotions for Saturday 27th October, 2018

Big Alpha Holy Spirit Day
and Messy Church afternoon

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

Reading : ROMANS chapter 8

Meditation : take the time to consider these verses and all that is said here.
What are you encouraged and challenged by?
What words stay with you as your day starts?

And then take time to Pray in your own words in response to this God
Giving thanks to Him for all that He gives in and through Christ Jesus
And His Holy Spirit

Amen we pray together this new day.

Midday
Pray for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our day in our land
And on the Big Alpha Holy Spirit day at LK
O God of grace and mercy…pour out a blessing we call out to you!
On us.
On me.
On our nation.

Evening
Reading : read the chapter again
Reflect on these great words…. and then Pray in response to what you have read
LORD God, our God, hear our evening prayers
As we lay ourselves before You
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.