Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Pastor David reads Psalm 20 and offers a prayer from Clement of Rome:

We ask you, Master, to be our helper and protector.
Save the afflicted among us; have mercy on the lowly;
raise up the fallen; appear to the needy; heal the ungodly;
restore the wanderers of your people;
feed the hungry; ransom our prisoners;
raise up the sick; comfort the faint-hearted.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Pastor David reads Psalm 2 and offers a prayer from St. Augustine:

O Lord in whom all things live,
who commanded us to seek you,
who are always ready to be found:
to know you is life,
to serve you is freedom,
to praise you is our soul’s delight.
We bless you and adore you,
we worship you and magnify you,
we give thanks to you for your great glory,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, December 28, 2020

Pastor David reads Psalm 97 and offers a traditional Gaelic prayer:

As the hand is made for holding and the eye for seeing, you have created me for joy, O God. Share with me in finding that joy everywhere: in the violet’s beauty, in the lark’s melody, in the child’s face, in a mother’s love, in the purity of Jesus.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, December 28, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, December 25, 2020

Pastor David reads 1 John 4:7-16 and offers a prayer from Robert Louis Stevenson:

O God, our loving Father, help us rightly to remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men. May Christmas morning make us happy to be your children and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus’s sake.

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

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