Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, December 24, 2020

Pastor David reads Revelation 21:22-22:5 and offers a prayer from Christina Rossetti:

Open wide the window of our spirits, O Lord, and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain you with all our powers of adoration and praise.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, December 24, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Pastor David reads Revelation 21:9-21 and offers a prayer from the 16th century English reformers:

O almighty God, who has built your church on the foundations of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the head cornerstone: grant us to be so joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching that we may be made into a holy temple, acceptable to you, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Pastor David reads Revelation 20:11-21:8 and offers a prayer from the Gelasian Sacramentary:

O God, who makes us glad with the yearly remembrance of the birth of your only Son Jesus Christ, grant that as we joyfully receive him for our Redeemer, so we may with sure confidence behold him when he comes to be our Judge; he, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, December 21, 2020

Pastor David reads Revelation 20:1-10 and offers a prayer from the Book of Common Prayer:

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Ghost, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, December 21, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, December 17, 2020

Pastor David reads Isaiah 9:18-10:4 and offers a prayer from the Gelasian Sacramentary:

We ask you, O Lord, to purify our consciences by your daily visitation, that when your Son our Lord comes, he may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, December 17, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Pastor David reads Isaiah 9:1-7 and offers a prayer from the Mozarabic Breviary:

May the Lamb of God, who once came to take away the sins of the world, take away from us every stain of sin. Amen.
And may he who came to redeem what was lost, at his second coming not cast away what he has redeemed. Amen.
That, when he comes, we may have perpetual joy with him on whom we have believed. Amen.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, December 14, 2020

Pastor David reads Isaiah 8:16-9:1 and offers a prayer from Jane Deren:

Christ, we await your coming.
And we respond to your invitation
to journey to the holy mountain,
where there is “no harm or ruin,”
and where the lion can lie down with the lamb.

Help us to be like John the Baptist
so we may recognize and announce
your love to a world in darkness.
Spark our creativity so we may
create the way to your peace and justice,
working with our sisters and brothers
to open new vistas, to promote new ways
of being in community and in communion.

May the wings of the Holy Spirit open softly within us,
gracing us with inspiration
so our waiting itself becomes the place of a new creation.
Amen.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, December 14, 2020