Saturday, September 17







1 John 4 : 11-19

   
11 Beloved, if God so loved us,
we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in us,
and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him,
and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that
the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,
God dwelleth in him,
and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed
the love that God hath to us.
God is love;
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,
and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness in the day of judgment:
because as he is,
so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love;
but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him,
because he first loved us.



Today's Prayer...



Lord our God,

You fill heaven and earth with your Spirit
and allow us to share in your gifts.
We thank you for all you have given us,
for all you are giving and will give.
We are poor and needy;
all people are poor and needy in spite of their
striving, longing, and seeking.
Only you, through your Spirit,
can awaken something in us to help us go toward your goal.
Keep us from being caught up in what men do.
The greatest help for our hearts is what you do,
and each of us can tell something about it.
Each of us has received help beyond anything
we had hoped or thought of.
How much you have done for us!
How much you are doing for the nations!
Yes, we thank you for this present time.
Although our lives often seem hopeless and full of sorrow,
your powers are still living among men,
working for their good and awaking them to new life.
The time will surely come when our hearts will be
released from their hunger and we can be filled
with the life from above,
which you give us in Jesus Christ.



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

Amen

Sunday, September 18







Romans 8 : 24-31

   
24 For we are saved by hope:
but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth,
why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not,
then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth
what is the mind of the Spirit,
because he maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together
for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow,
he also did predestinate to be conformed to the
image of his Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate,
them he also called:
and whom he called,
them he also justified:
and whom he justified,
them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us,
who can be against us?



Today's Prayer...



Lord our God,

We thank you that you have given us your glorious future
as the basis for our lives.
We thank you that on this foundation we can forget our
present troubles and believe that the power of good can
move us today to oppose sin, death,
and everything evil.
Free our hearts from all burdens,
and grant that we may have courage to wait patiently
for the great help which is to come.
Grant that what is happening in the world today may
somehow help toward the solution of all the problems.
We praise your name,
our Father in the heavens.
We praise you for the good you do for us each day
and for the light you will shed one day on everything on earth,
to the glory of your name.



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

Amen

Monday, September 19







Proverbs 10 : 15-22

   
15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city:
the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life:
the fruit of the wicked to sin.
17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction:
but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips,
and he that uttereth a slander,
is a fool.
19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin:
but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver:
the heart of the wicked is little worth.
21 The lips of the righteous feed many:
but fools die for want of wisdom.
22 The blessing of the Lord,
it maketh rich,
and he addeth no sorrow with it.



Today's Prayer...



Lord our God and our Father,

We thank you for all the light you let shine on earth
to gladden our hearts.
Your light shows us how to live in your creation with
open eyes and open hearts,
accepting in a childlike way all the good gifts from your hand.
How much good you send to many sorrowful hearts,
and how much strengthening to those in
weakness, poverty, and sickness!
Grant that we may recognize what comes from you,
that we are not cast down in spirit but mount up
again and again on wings like eagles.
May we learn to say at all times,
"Through how much need has not our
merciful God spread out his wings to protect us!"



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

Amen

Tuesday, September 20







Ephesians 1 : 5-12

   
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace;
8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might
gather together in one all things in Christ,
both which are in heaven,
and which are on earth;
even in him:
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who
worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory,
who first trusted in Christ.



Today's Prayer...



Lord God, our Helper,

We thank you for walking among us and for letting
many experience your protection.
Even when we are dying,
you protect and help us so that we need not pass into
death but may enter into life.
So may our hearts be lifted up to you.
Grant that the light in us remains undimmed,
and that we may come before you in sincerity.
Lord God,
create good out of evil.
Let light dawn in the darkness.
Fulfill your promise,
for our hearts are not concerned with human desires but
with your promise.
You will carry it out,
and we will be able to say,
"Our faith was not in vain,
our hope was not in vain.
Lord our God,
you have blest us a thousandfold."



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

Amen

Wednesday, September 21







Amos 5 : 6-13

   
6 Seek the Lord, and ye shall live;
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and devour it,
and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood,
and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion,
and turneth the shadow of death into the morning,
and maketh the day dark with night:
that calleth for the waters of the sea,
and poureth them out upon the face of the earth:
The Lord is his name:
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong,
so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate,
and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,
and ye take from him burdens of wheat:
ye have built houses of hewn stone,
but ye shall not dwell in them;
ye have planted pleasant vineyards,
but ye shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins:
they afflict the just, they take a bribe,
and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right..
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time;
for it is an evil time.


Today's Prayer...



Dear Father in heaven,

We thank you for sending down powers
from on high into our earthly life.
We thank you for sending us a higher nature
in which we can live for others because we
are living by what we receive from you.
May we be simple, childlike, and trusting.
When anyone despairs of himself,
show him the way to the Savior
so that he can find trust.
Show to us the way of trust,
trust for ourselves and for all people,
because it is your will for all to receive help.



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

Amen