Tag: Sunday

Daily Devotions for Sunday 21st October, 2018

Why do we Give?

Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from the Living God
Reading : MALACHI 3 verses 6-18

Meditation : take time to consider these words on this Sunday.
What words or images stay with you?
What is God teaching you today?

and then pray in response, to God our Provider

O LORD God,
As I read these words
Teach me
Guide me
Use me
And my monies
Even today.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Midday
Pray God’s blessing on someone you talked with this past week
O LORD, our God, hear our cry and pour out Your blessing we ask

Evening
Reading : read these verses again from Malachi
Reflect on the words and images and then Pray in response at the end of your day
A Celtic Prayer
May the Lord bless us and keep us
The Lord make his face shine upon us
And give us peace

This evening we ask
In Jesus’ name
Amen.

Daily Devotions for Sunday 14th October, 2018

Why should I Pray?

Morning
Look Upward and Pray to hear and receive from the Living God
Reading : PSALM 5

Meditation : take time and consider these words as your Sunday starts.
What is God saying to you today from His Word this morning?

and then take time to pray to our God in response

O LORD God,
Great and so worthy of praise.
We bow before You
As we bring our morning prayers
and lay our lives before You.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Midday
Pray a blessing on your Church Family
O LORD, God of mercy, hear our cry and pour out a blessing we ask!

Evening
Reading : read these verses again from Psalm 5
Reflect on all that is said and then Pray in response to this God
A Celtic Prayer
May God the Father circle us and keep us safe within His arms
May God the Son circle us and fill our hearts with love
May God the Holy Spirit circle us and inspire us with His grace

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Daily Devotions for Sunday 7th October, 2018

Why Communion?

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

Reading : DEUTERONOMY 16 verses 1-8

Meditation : take time to consider these words as your Sunday starts.
Which words or images stay with you?
What is God saying to you today from his Word on this Communion Sunday at LK?

Pray in response to what you have read and considered

O LORD God,
God of grace and faithfulness
Have mercy we ask
For in Christ alone we stand.
In Jesus’ name we ask to know your blessing
As we pause and remember.
Amen.

Midday
Pray a blessing on those preaching in our land today
O LORD God, hear and answer our prayers.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Evening
Reading : read the passage again as your day ends
Reflect on the truths beyond the words and then Pray to our God …
Celtic Prayer
Be thou my vision, O Lord.
Be thou my soul’s shelter
O Lord of my heart

Through this night
In Jesus’ name
Amen.

Daily Devotions for Sunday 30th September, 2018

Harvest Sunday – ‘Why Harvest?’

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

Reading : GENESIS 1 – chapter 2 verse 4
Meditation : take time to consider these words about Creation this morning!
What do they say to you?
What is your response this particular Sunday at LK?

and then pray in response to this God, our Creator God, for all He has provided

O LORD God,
As I read these words
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you!
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Midday
Pray for a Church family elsewhere in our world to know Sunday blessings
O LORD, our God, hear our cry and pour out blessings we ask!

Evening
Reading : read the verses again from Genesis
Reflect on their meaning for you and then Pray in response, as your day and month ends.

A Celtic Prayer
O Lord, who created the soaring hawk
And the raindrop glistening on the bramble leaf,
Open our eyes to your great glory
And set our hearts on fire
With your praise.

Even this evening
Amen!

Daily Devotions for Sunday 23rd September, 2018

Who is Jesus?

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

Reading : JOHN 1 verses 1-18
Meditation : take time and consider these words written about Jesus.
What do they mean for you?
What does Jesus mean to you?

And then pray in response to this Jesus
Bowing before Him in worship
Thanking Him for coming from heaven to earth

Amen.

Midday
Pray for a Church Family elsewhere in UK to know Sunday blessings
O LORD, our God, have mercy and pour out blessings we ask!

Evening
Reading : read the verses again from John 1
Reflect on their meaning for you and then Pray in response, as your day ends

A Celtic Prayer – from St Columba
Alone with none but you, my God,
I journey on my way.
What need I fear, when you are near,
O King of night and day?
More safe am I within your hand
Than if a host did round me stand.

My life I yield to your command,
And bow to your control,
In peaceful calm, for from your arm
No power can snatch my soul.
Could earthly foes ever appal
A soul that heeds the heavenly call?

Amen.

Daily Devotions for Sunday 16th September, 2018

‘Messengers of the Gospel’

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

Reading : MATTHEW 5 verses 1-12
Meditation : take time and slowly consider these words from Jesus again.
Which words stay with you?
How can you put them into practice today?

And then pray to this God – to be His Gospel-messenger today

O LORD God,
God of blessing and wholeness,
God of Gospel-Good News,
Teach us
Help us
Use us – even today.
Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Midday
Pray for the Church in our land to know Sunday blessings
O LORD, God of mercy, hear our cry and pour out Kingdom blessings!

Evening
Reading : read this passage again
Reflect on how it has applied to your life today …. and then Pray in response

A Celtic Prayer
High King of Heaven,
You stretch out the skies like a curtain
And lower the canopy of gentle night
To cool the heat of the day.
May your peace, velvety and starlit,
Descend
To calm the wild beating of my heart,
That I may be still.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.