Thursday, November 04






Luke 10:16-20


16 He that heareth you heareth me;
and he that despiseth you despiseth me;
and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
17 And the seventy returned again with joy,
saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto
us through thy name.
18 And he said unto them,
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread
on serpents and scorpions, and
over all the power of the enemy:
and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not,
that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice,
because your names are written in heaven.


Today's Prayer...



Lord our God,

We thank you that you have redeemed us and that we may feel
united with your holy ones, those in heaven and those on earth
who are gathered around Jesus Christ, a people growing in number
and strength from year to year. We thank you that we too belong to them,
and we ask you to keep our hearts aware of this unity so that we may
be joyful, redeemed people who find ever greater deliverance, full of praise
and thanks, full of certainty and joy. Grant this to us, for we are your people,
born out of your power as Savior and gathered for the sake of your kingdom.
Guard your gifts and your powers within us. Continue your redemption of
the whole world until joy floods through our whole being and we can praise
you for the life you have already given us here on earth.


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

Amen

Friday, November 05






Isaiah 28:23-29


23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?
doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof,
doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin,
and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley
and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion,
and doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing
instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin;
but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be
threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart,
nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts,
which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.


Today's Prayer...



Lord God Almighty,

Whose eyes keep watch over the whole world,
we come before you with the evil from our surroundings
still clinging to us. Grant that our lives may be in
your hands. Give us your strength to find the way,
even through suffering and distress. For we are yours,
O Lord our God, and you have chosen your people to
be strong and to be freed from all evils.
Help us, we beseech you. May we know that you are
with us and may your Word bring us blessing, to
the glory of your name forever.


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

Amen

Saturday, November 06






Hebrews 11:1-10


1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen
were not made of things which do appear.
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that
he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he
being dead yet speaketh.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death;
and was not found, because God had translated him: for before
his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder
of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;
by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the
righteousness which is by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place
which he should after receive for an inheritance,
obeyed; and he went out,
not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise,
as in a strange country,
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob,
the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.


Today's Prayer...



Lord our God,

Your kingdom is coming. Your help reaches us.
However much we must suffer, we look to you, for you have
given us your promise. You have promised that all shall go well
with us. You have promised that while still on earth your people
may have strength to trust in you and wait for you in patience
and joy. So lay your hands upon us, O Lord our God, and let
your redeeming strength be revealed in us. You know all our needs.
You see into each heart and know how to help, as you have promised.
Bless us and help us, and may your name be honored among us.
May your kingdom come, and your will be done on earth as in heaven.


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

Amen

Monday, November 08






Psalm 9:1-9


1 I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart;
I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee:
I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back,
they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;
thou satest in the throne judging right.
5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast
destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end:
and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the Lord shall endure for ever:
he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness,
he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed,
a refuge in times of trouble.


Today's Prayer...



Lord our God,

We thank you for giving us Jesus Christ, whose words remain
living to this very day. You will make his words continually alive
so that in the name of Jesus Christ joyful praises are sung to you,
Almighty God and Father in heaven. Remember us all.
Remember the particular needs of each one of us. Come to the
world through the words of Jesus Christ. May his words come
as your strong angels to the hearts of many to comfort and restore,
to help and do miracles for those in need. May your name be
praised through the great and mighty Word, Jesus Christ!


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

Amen

Tuesday, November 09






James 1:1-6


1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work,
that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven
with the wind and tossed.



Today's Prayer...



Lord our God,

Dear Father, may we be gathered in your light.
Through your Spirit strengthen our hearts to hold fast to you,
for you remain our help, our counsel, our comfort throughout
our life and in all eternity. Send us Jesus Christ, the Savior of
the world, and grant that again and again we may find newness
of life through him. Grant that we become attentive to him,
who is risen from the dead and who will come again to complete
the work he began in his life on earth. We remember your promise,
O Lord God, and we remain with you. We have little strength, and
through us as we are you can accomplish nothing. You alone can
fulfill your promise through Jesus Christ, whom you will send to
complete your works at his final coming.


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

Amen

Wednesday, November 10






Joshua 1:4-9


4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river,
the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea
toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the
days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee:
I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou
divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest
observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper
withersoever thou goest.
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou
shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according
to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous,
and then thou shalt have good success.
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage;
be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee
whithersoever thou goest.


Today's Prayer...



Lord our God,

The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end,
who was and is and is to come, the Almighty, we thank you for
this wonderful message, which is meant for us too, even though
our lives often seem empty and sad. But behold, you make all
things new for each one of us. Even though we have long tormented
ourselves, the light of life will dawn at last and we will be able
to rejoice. Continue to protect us and our community.
Wake us to new life, for you have called us to believe and to endure
to the end. Whatever sorrows and hardships may come,
we will remain faithful, O Lord our God. This is our promise to you.
We will persevere and say joyfully,
"Jesus Christ is coming to make all things new."


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

Amen

Thursday, November 11






Isaiah 51:11-17


11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return,
and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you:
who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die,
and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker,
that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth;
and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor,
as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea,
whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth,
and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand,
that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth,
and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem,
which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury;
thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.



Today's Prayer...



Lord our God,

We come to you, the source of all being.
You have said to us, "I am your God. You shall have no other gods
besides me. Honor none but me, your God." We thank you for this
wonderful message. Help us to recognize you more and more,
so that our hearts are full of the goodness and blessing we already
have on earth, so that we hear you, the mighty One, say,
"Stop, O people. Make peace. No one of you is more important than any other.
Remember that I am God of all, in south and north, in west and east,
on the oceans and everywhere.
I am the one God, and through Jesus Christ I am now your Father."


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

Amen