You are invited to pause and pray with others at this time in your day.
You may wish to revisit the Daily Devotions for today’s prayer focus.
You may wish to pause in God’s presence.
You are invited to pause and pray with others at this time in your day.
You may wish to revisit the Daily Devotions for today’s prayer focus.
You may wish to pause in God’s presence.
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit
Reading : 2 CORINTHIANS 13 verse 14
Meditation : take the time to consider these words of blessing
What do they mean for you in your life?
Pray in response – to our God
As you pray this blessing on others known to you
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Midday
Pray God’s blessings on those who live near the Kirk in these days
O LORD, have mercy on all we call out and pour rich blessings!
Evening
Reading : 2 CORINTHIANS 13.14 read the verse again prayerfully at the end of your day
Reflect….. and then pray to God in response
As you look back on your day
Father God, hear my prayer this evening.
As I thank you for the blessings of this day
As I humbly name others before you.
And ask your Kingdom blessing on them
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from the Living God
Reading : REVELATION 2 verses 12-17
Meditation : take time to consider this part of the Bible.
The message to the Church in Pergamum.
What are you encouraged and challenged by?
Which part of the message stays with you?
And then pray in response to the LORD our God
O LORD our God,
Good and majestic One,
Creator God,
Great and so worthy of praise.
We bow before You.
We lay our lives before You.
O fill us with your Spirit afresh
For of ourselves we get it so wrong
Today and every day!
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 verses again from REVELATION 2
Reflect on all that is said here in this message and then Pray in response to this God
O LORD, our Great and Holy God,
hear our evening prayers we ask
As we thank you for what we read
As we look back over our day
As we look ahead to tomorrow
As we name before you those we are concerned about.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
As a Church we recently took part in the global prayer venture of Thy Kingdom Come.
Each Saturday at 12 noon we are continuing to ask and seek and knock on Heaven’s door…..Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done…..and to pray for up to 5 people we know to meet with Jesus and to experience God’s Kingdom reign in their lives.
This week we focus on the theme of PRAISE as we pause to pray.
Praise God – for who He is!
Praise God – for His kingdom blessings to you!
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit
Reading : REVELATION 2 verses 8-11
Meditation : take time to consider this part of the Bible.
The message to the Church in Smyrna.
What are you encouraged and challenged by?
Which part of the message stays with you?
And then Pray in response to what you read – to this God of ours.
In Jesus’ name
Amen and Amen!
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 this part of REVELATION 2 again
Reflect on this God, your God, our God…. and then Praise Him in your evening Prayer
LORD God, our God, receive our praise
For who You are!
For all you have done for us!
And as we give it all back to you
May you continue to reach and save people
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done across our world
In our community, in our city.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus
Reading : ROMANS 8 verses 26-30
Meditation : consider these great words from Paul this morning
The help of the Holy Spirit.
God works everything for good.
What are you encouraged and challenged by?
And then Pray in response – as God leads you
Pray with confidence to this God, our God
Looking again at verses 26 and 27
Amen and Amen – we pray together.
Midday
Pray God’s blessing on the churches in the SEECAT group
Father God, hear our prayers, have mercy and bless them real good we ask.
Evening
Reading : read these verses again from ROMANS 8
Reflect on the words you have just read and pray in response
Lord Jesus, hear our evening prayers as we respond to these words
As we thank you for so much
And bring a blessing to those in need of hope we ask.
Amen.