Scripture and Prayer on Friday, December 4, 2020

Pastor David reads 1 Thessalonians 5 and offers a prayer from Clement of Rome:

We beg you, Lord, to help and defend us.
Deliver the oppressed,
have compassion on the despised,
raise the fallen,
reveal yourself to the needy,
heal the sick,
bring back those who have strayed from you,
feed the hungry,
lift up the weak,
remove the prisoners’ chains.
May every nation come to know that you are God alone,
that Jesus is your Son,
that we are your people, the sheep of your pasture.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, December 4, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, December 3, 2020

Pastor David reads 1 Thessalonians 4 and offers a prayer from a 16th century primer:

O good Lord Jesus Christ, I pray that you will open my mouth, so that I may praise you, and give you thanks for all your goodness towards me; and I ask you to keep it from all vain talk, and from all other ways of offending you.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, December 3, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Pastor David reads 1 Thessalonians 3 and offers a prayer from Alcuin:

O King of Glory and Lord of Valors, our warrior and our peace, who has said, “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world”: be victorious in us your servants. Grant your compassion to go before us, your compassion to come behind us: before us in our undertaking, behind us in our ending. And what will I now say, unless that your will be done, who wills that all should be saved? Your will is our salvation, your glory our joy.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Pastor David reads 1 Thessalonians 2 and offers a prayer from the 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 Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, November 30, 2020

Pastor David reads 1 Thessalonians 1 and offers a prayer from the Gallican Sacramentary:

Give us, O Lord, purity of lips, clean and innocent hearts, and rectitude of action; give us humility, patience, self-wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness, and of your fear; make us ever to seek your face with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind; grant us to have a contrite and humbled heart in your presence, to prefer nothing to your love. Have mercy upon us, we humbly ask you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, November 30, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, November 27, 2020

Pastor David reads Zechariah 14:1-11 and offers a prayer from Francis of Assisi:

You are holy, Lord, the only God,
and your deeds are wonderful.
You are strong.
You are great.
You are the most high.
You are almighty.
You, holy Father, are King of heaven and earth.
You are three and one, Lord God, all Good.
You are Good, all Good, supreme Good,
Lord God, living and true.
You are love. You are wisdom.
You are humility. You are endurance.
You are rest. You are peace.
You are joy and gladness.
You are justice and moderation.
You are all our riches, and you suffice for us.
You are beauty.
You are gentleness.
You are our protector.
You are our guradian and defender.
You are our courage. You are our haven and our hope.
You are our faith, our great consolation.
You are our eternal life, great and wonderful Lord,
God almighty, merciful Savior.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, November 26, 2020

Pastor David reads Zechariah 13 and offers a prayer from Philipp Melanchthon:

We ask you, Christ Jesus, Son of God, crucified for us and risen again, have compassion on us. Intercede for us with the eternal Father. Purify us with your Holy Spirit.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Pastor David reads Zechariah 12:1-10 and offers a prayer from Christina Rossetti:

O Lord, who are as the Shadow of a great Rock in a weary land, who beholds your weak creatures weary of labor, weary of pleasure, weary of hope deferred, weary of self; in your abundant compassion, and unutterable tenderness, bring us, I pray you, unto your rest.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Pastor David reads Zechariah 11:4-17 and offers a prayer based on a saying by Sir Francis Drake:

O Lord God, when you give to your servants to endeavor any great matter, grant us also to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same to the end, until it is thoroughly finished, which yields the true glory; through him who for the finishing of your work laid down his life, our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, November 23, 2020

Pastor David reads Zechariah 10:1-12 and offers a prayer from John Jewel:

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ open all our eyes, that we may see that blessed hope to which we are called; that we may altogether glorify the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent down to us from heaven; to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be rendered all honor and glory to all eternity.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, November 23, 2020