Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, July 22, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 5:1-20 and offers a prayer from Thomas Arnold:

O Lord, give your blessing, we pray, to our daily work, that we may do it in faith and heartily, as to the Lord and not to people.

All our powers of body and mind are yours, and we devote them to your service. Sanctify them, and the work in which we are engaged; and, Lord, so bless our efforts that they may bring forth in us the fruits of true wisdom.

Teach us to seek after truth and enable us to gain it; and grant that while we know earthly things, we may know you, and be known by you, through and in your Son Jesus Christ.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, July 22, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 4:35-41 and offers a prayer from Charles Wesley:

Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the nearer waters rolls, while the tempest still is high.
Hide me, O my Savior, hide, till the storm of life is past;
Safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last.

Other refuge have I none, hangs my helpless soul on Thee;
Leave, ah! leave me not alone, still support and comfort me.
All my trust on Thee is stayed, all my help from Thee I bring;
Cover my defenseless head with the shadow of Thy wing.

Wilt Thou not regard my call? Wilt Thou not accept my prayer?
Lo! I sink, I faint, I fall – Lo! on Thee I cast my care;
Reach me out Thy gracious hand! While I of Thy strength receive,
Hoping against hope I stand, dying, and behold, I live.

Thou, O Christ, art all I want, more than all in Thee I find;
Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, heal the sick, and lead the blind.
Just and holy is Thy Name, I am all unrighteousness;
False and full of sin I am; Thou art full of truth and grace.

Plenteous grace with Thee is found, grace to cover all my sin;
Let the healing streams abound; make and keep me pure within.
Thou of life the fountain art, freely let me take of Thee;
Spring Thou up within my heart; rise to all eternity.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 4:21-34 and offers a prayer from Kate Wilkinson:

May the mind of Christ my Savior
Live in me from day to day,
By his love and power controlling
All I do and say.

May the word of God dwell richly
In my heart from hour to hour,
So that all may see I triumph
Only through his power.

May the love of Jesus fill me
As the waters fill the sea;
Him exalting, self abasing,
This is victory.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, July 19, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 4:1-20 and offers a prayer from Gertrude of Thuringen:

O Love, O God almighty, in your love confirm me.
O Love most wise, give me wisdom in the love of you.
O Love most sweet, give me sweetness in the taste of you.
O Love most dear, grant that I may live only for you.
O Love most faithful, in all my tribulations comfort and succour me.
O Love who is always with me, work all my works in me.
O Love most victorious, grant that I may persevere to the end in you.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, July 19, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, July 16, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 3:7-19a and offers a prayer from Jerome:

O good shepherd, seek me out, and bring me home to your fold again.
Deal favourably with me according to your good pleasure,
till I may dwell in your house all the days of my life,
and praise you for ever and ever with them that are there.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, July 16, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, July 15, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 2:23-3:6 and offers a prayer from George Thomas:

O God, slow us down and help us to see that we are put in charge of our lives, but with thy help. Help us to get in tune with the rhythm that makes for life.

We keep moving, even though we know that we are made to center down, as well as to be actively engaged in the business of life. We compete for things and make those things more important than they ought to be. We eat what we ought not to eat. We neglect and misuse our bodies. We fail to discipline our minds and to be still and know that you are God and that we are the temple of the Most High. Yet we often complain about our misfortunes and our hard luck, when at times it is we who are guilty of disregard.

Help us to know that we can be broken by life only if we first allow the victory of evil over our spirits.

May our hope and strength and faith be grounded in you; and may we recall the strength of our model, our brother and your Son. Amen.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, July 15, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 2:12-22 and offers a prayer from Christina Rossetti:

None other lamb, none other name,
None other hope in heaven or earth or sea,
None other hiding-place from guilt and shame,
None beside thee!

My faith burns low, my hope burns low;
Only my heart’s desire cries out in me,
By the deep thunder of its want and woe,
Cries out to thee.

Lord, you are life, though I be dead;
Love’s fire you are, however cold I be:
Nor heaven have I, nor place to lay my head,
Nor home, but thee.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 2:1-12 and offers a prayer from Richard Rolle:

Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, as you are king of majesty; and forgive all my sins that I have committed, both great and small; and bring me, if it is your will, to heaven to live always with you.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, July 12, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 1:29-45 and offers a prayer from the Church Missionary Society:

O Lord Jesus Christ, who went about doing good and healing all kinds of sickness: give strength, wisdom, and gentleness to all your ministering servants, our doctors, surgeons, and nurses; that always bearing your presence with them, they may not only heal but bless, and shine as lamps of hope in the darkest hours of distress and fear; who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, July 12, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, July 9, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 1:1-13 and offers a prayer from Desiderius Erasmus:

O Holy Spirit of God, who with your holy breath cleanses the hearts and minds of people,
comforting them when they are in sorrow,
leading them when they are out of the way,
kindling them when they are cold,
knitting them together when they are at variance,
and enriching them with many gifts;
by whose working all things live:
We ask you to maintain and daily increase the gifts which you have given us;
that with your light before us and within us, we may pass through this world without stumbling and without straying;
who lives and reigns with the Father and the Son, forever.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, July 8, 2021