As we move onward from Thy Kingdom Come 2024 ……so we keep praying!!
Each Sunday at Midday we are re-visiting the daily themes – including the Cheeky Pandas and Youth Videos for the younger members of our Church Family!
Here was the Cheeky Pandas post from TKC with Mary Berry telling a Bible story for us to ponder afresh…..
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from the Living God
Reading : LAMENTATIONS 3 verses 19-24
Meditation : take time and consider this part of the chapter this Sunday morning.
The LORD’s unfailing love and mercy
What do these words mean for you today?
And then pray in response – using the words of verses 22-24 as you turn to prayer
O God of faithful promise
We bow before you
We believe in you
We trust in you
This new day
In Jesus’ Name, Amen
Midday
Pray the Prayer for the Month as your own midday prayer
O LORD my God
Faithful and Eternal
Planner and Potter
Guide my steps
O LORD my God
Saviour and Teacher
Guide and Protector
Lighten my load
O LORD my God
Merciful and Forgiving
Helper and Provider
Walk with me
This month
This day
This moment
Amen and Amen.
Evening
Reading : read these particular verses again from LAMENTATIONS 3 verses 19-24
Reflect on the truths behind the words and then Pray in response to this God
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.
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean;
I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;
I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36 verses 25 and 26
In 2024 we are considering BEFORE THE GOOD NEWS – GOD’S PLAN BEGINS – as we step back into the Old Testament and pausing at our times of Midday Devotion to pray for others in our church family, our city and our world.
In October we journey with the major prophets of EZEKIEL and DANIEL.
We are all invited to listen for God’s voice and make our response as we journey together in our ‘rhythm of devotion’ in 2024.
These Devotions are but one way to feed on God’s Word in the morning, at midday, in the evening… to pray with Him continually through the day and even to share with others the treasures or hurdles you discover.
The Church website and Facebook page (even on a handy mobile) provide a fuller daily devotional page. However it all follows the pattern below which the information provided fits into, based on the Kirk’s origins of the Celtic and Northumbrian traditions
which we started as a church family in 2015.
Morning
Reading and Meditation on the content and Prayer of response
Midday
Prayer – mostly for others
Evening
Verse(s) from the morning reading
Reflection and Prayer at the end of the day
Prayer for the Month of OCTOBER
O LORD our God
The God of Ezekiel and Daniel
Yesterday, today and forever
Breathe upon us
O Spirit of our God
The God of Ezekiel
Yesterday, today and forever
Renew and Restore us
O Living LORD our God
The God of Daniel
Yesterday, today and forever
Empower and use us
O Holy Spirit of our God
The God of Ezekiel and Daniel
Yesterday, today and forever
Fill us afresh
Amen and Amen!
The Lord’s 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
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from God, the Holy Spirit
Reading : JEREMIAH chapter 45
Meditation : take the time to consider this very short chapter this Saturday morning.
God’s promises to Baruch
What is God teaching you about His ways today?
And then take time to Pray with your own words in response to this God
Amen we pray together this new day
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 few verses again from JEREMIAH chapter 45
Reflect on the words…. and then Pray in response to what you have read
This is our God.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from Jesus
Reading : JEREMIAH chapter 44 verses 1-10
Meditation : take time and consider all that is said here
The LORD’s message to His People
What images or words stay with you?
What is God teaching/reminding you?
And then Pray with confidence to this God of ours in response
For yourself
For another
For those in need of hearing from God
Amen – we pray together.
Midday
Pray God’s blessing on those on our Church Prayer List at this time
Father God, hear our prayers and bless them all real good we ask
Evening
Reading : read this passage again from JEREMIAH chapter 44 verses 1-10
Reflect on the words written here and pray in response to this God
For yourself
For another
In Jesus’ name, Amen and Amen