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Daily Devotions for Monday 23rd December, 2024

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

Reading : JOHN 1 verses 19-28
Meditation : take time and consider this passage this Monday morning.
John’s message
Someone greater is coming

What words stay with you?
How do you respond to what John said?

Then Pray with your own words in response to this Jesus

In Jesus’ name, Amen

Midday
Pray God’s blessing on the SEECAT group of churches
God of grace and mercy and rich blessing, hear our prayers we ask.

Evening
Reading : read these verses again from JOHN 1 verses 19-28
Reflect on what you read and then pause to pray to our God in response

The LORD takes pleasure in his people;
he honours the humble with victory.
Let God’s people rejoice in their triumph
and sing joyfully all night long.

And so to you, O God, we bring our evening words of prayer
In Jesus’ name, Amen!

Daily Devotions for Sunday 22nd December, 2024

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

Reading : JOHN 1 verses 1-18
We take time to consider afresh these words about the Word of Life

Which words stay with you?

And then pray to this God in response
Naming others known to you seeking the Word of Life

In Jesus’ Name, Amen

Midday
Pray the Prayer for the Month as your own midday prayer

Jesus
Name above all names
We bow before You

Jesus
Word of Life
Come to us

Jesus
Son of God
Live with us

Jesus
Saviour and Lord
Save us

Amen and Amen!

Evening
Reading : read these words again from JOHN 1 verses 1-18
Reflect on these words and then Pray in response at the end of your day

O LORD, our Great Hope,
We bring our evening sacrifice of praise to you
For who you are
As we acknowledge You our Help even this day.
As we name others in need
As we pray for the Church in all corners of our world
To live and speak of Jesus.
In His saving name, Amen.

Daily Devotions for Monday 14th October, 2024

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

Reading : EZEKIEL chapter 37 vs 1-14
Meditation : take time to consider these words of Jesus as your day starts.
Valley of Dry Bones
Prophesy
Breath of Life

What words stay with you today?
Where do you see yourself in this passage?

Then Pause to Pray in response to this God we believe and trust in

Pray your own words at the start of this day
Asking, seeking, knocking for this Breath of Life afresh

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Midday
Pray God’s blessing on someone you chatted with recently
God of grace and mercy and rich blessing, hear our prayers we ask.

Evening
Reading : read these verses again from EZEKIEL chapter 37 vs 1-14
– in another version?
Reflect prayerfully on what you read and then pray to Father God in response

Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Hear my evening prayer
Humbly
Honestly
As I lay myself and my church family before you at the end of this day
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Bible Verses for the Week and Sunday Morning Reflection

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.”

Ezekiel 37 verses 4 and 5

Do you follow our Sunday morning reflection on the Bible Verse for the Week?

It is found on our YouTube channel…and our Facebook page……..8am each Sunday morning.

The link to this morning’s – from Alastair – have a look and listen… Journeying with God…with dry bones and all

Daily Devotions for Friday 20th October, 2023

Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus

Reading : JOHN 14 verse 6

Meditation : take time and consider all that is said here about our God.
Jesus is the only Way, the Truth, the Life.

What is your response to these words from Jesus?

And then Pray with your own words to this God of ours in response
Naming others seeking the Living God

And so we bring our morning prayers to you, our God Most High, our Father God.
Amen – we pray together.

Midday
Pray God’s blessing on Alice Laing as she serves Moredun and Gilmerton churches
Father God, hear our prayers and bless her real good we ask

Evening
Reading : read this passage again from JOHN 14 verse 6
Reflect on the words written here and pray in response to the Lord our Way

Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD, my soul
I will praise him as long as I live;
I will sing to my God all my life.

In Jesus’ name, Amen!

Daily Devotions for Sunday 24th September, 2023

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

Reading : JOHN chapter 6 verses 35-40
Meditation : take time and consider this part of the chapter again this Sunday morning.
“I am the Bread of Life”

What do these words mean for you today?
Where are you feeding in your life?

And then pray in response – using the words of verse 40 as you turn to prayer

O God of grace-giving-Life
We bow before you
We believe in you
We trust in you
We offer you our songs of praise
This new day
In Jesus’ Name, Amen!

Midday
Pray the Lord’s Prayer as your 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 particular verses again from JOHN 6 verses 35-40
Reflect on the words and images and then Pray in response to this God
Looking again at verse 37

O LORD, hear our evening prayers we ask
As we thank you for the blessings of this Sunday
As we believe and trust in you
As we pilgrimage on towards tomorrow
With hope and confidence in You above all others
In Jesus’ name, Amen.