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Monday, March 27








2 Timothy 2 : 11-19
KJV


11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him,
we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:
if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful:
he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance,
charging them before the Lord that they strive not
about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings:
for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as doth a canker:
of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18 Who concerning the truth have erred,
saying that the resurrection is past already;
and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure,
having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.
And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
   


Today's Prayer...


Lord our God,

From whom great promises are given for all humankind
and especially for Your people,
we gather in Your presence.
We rejoice before You,
for Your promise is sure and Your works will be revealed
to the glory of Your name.
Grant us steadfast faith in the grace of Jesus Christ.
Grant us faith to hold firm, and in spite of all evil to
trust that You are ruling and will set everything right.
Lord our God, our Father, we cry to You.
As the deer pants for refreshing water,
so in our time our souls cry out to You,
“Our Father in heaven, may Your name be honored.
May Your kingdom come.
May Your will be done on earth as in heaven.”


In the Name of the Most Holy we
pray in Jesus' Name

Amen

Tuesday, March 28








Isaiah 58 : 1-8
KJV


1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways,
as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God:
they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate,
and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day,
to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast,
and an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,
and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry,
and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?
when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him;
and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thine health shall spring forth speedily:
and thy righteousness shall go before thee;
the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward.
   


Today's Prayer...


Lord God,

We thank You that You have given us atonement,
an atonement that delivers us from all evil,
from all that is temporal and perishable,
and that allows us even now to live in eternity.
Grant that many people become aware of the greatness
and freeing power of the redemption You have offered us.
May a people be born to You,
serving You with light in their hearts as they look to
the future coming of Jesus Christ.
Be with us, strengthen us,
and protect us from all the deception on earth.
For we want to be Your children and nothing else;
with our whole hearts we want to look always to You.


In the Name of the Most Holy we
pray in Jesus' Name

Amen

Wednesday, March 29








Philippians 4 : 8-13
KJV


8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue,
and if there be any praise,
think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned,
and received, and heard, and seen in me, do:
and the God of peace shall be with you.
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly,
that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again;
wherein ye were also careful,
but ye lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect of want:
for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased,
and I know how to abound:
every where and in all things I am instructed
both to be full and to be hungry,
both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me.
   


Today's Prayer...


Lord God,

Dear Father in heaven,
we turn our hearts to You,
for You know all our need.
We turn to You,
for You are ready with Your help when
we are at our wit’s end.
You have paths we can follow joyfully
because we have a Lord who rules and
who reigns over us to make us glad.
May we praise Your name at all times.
May Your help be always before our eyes
so that we can be Your true children,
to the glory of Your name on earth.


In the Name of the Most Holy we
pray in Jesus' Name

Amen

Thursday, March 30








Hebrews 12 : 14-24
KJV


14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness,
without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God;
lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, 

and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau,
who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward,
when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected:
for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched,
and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which voice they that heard intreated that the word
should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded,
And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned,
or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said,
I exceedingly fear and quake: )
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion,
and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
   


Today's Prayer...


Lord God,

We thank You for having revealed Yourself on this earth
in the midst of sin, need, and oppression.
We thank You that we can have joy in all You
have done both before and since the coming of Jesus Christ,
our Savior in everything.
To You be praise and thanks.
Our hearts leap up with joy in You and in Your deeds.
Grant that we may be faithful to the end,
victorious in all things through Your Spirit,
who helps and blesses us on our way.
Grant Your help to all who call to You
and who long to rejoice in You.


In the Name of the Most Holy we
pray in Jesus' Name

Amen