Scripture and Prayer on Monday, April 26, 2021

Pastor David reads Colossians 3:1-14 and offers a prayer from King William III:

O merciful God, fill our hearts, we pray, with the graces of your Holy Spirit; with love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, and self-control.
O Lord, in confidence of your great mercy and goodness to all who truly repent and resolve to do better, I most humbly implore the grace and assistance of the Holy Spirit to enable me to become every day better.
Grant me the wisdom and understanding to know my duty, and the heart and will to do it.
Endue me, O Lord, with the true fear and love of you, and with a prudent zeal for your glory.
Increase in me the graces of charity and meekness, of truth and justice, of humility and patience, and a firmness of spirit to bear every condition with constancy of mind.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, April 26, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, April 23, 2021

Pastor David reads Daniel 6 and offers a prayer from Nerses, a 3rd century church leader:

Lord Jesus Christ, Keeper and Preserver of all things, let Thy right hand guard us by day and by night, when we sit at home, and when we walk abroad, when we lie down and when we rise up, that we may be kept from all evil, and have mercy upon us sinners. Amen.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, April 23, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, April 22, 2021

Pastor David reads Daniel 5:13-30 and offers a prayer by Pope Francis:

God of love, show us our place in this world
as channels of your love
for all the creatures of this earth,
for not one of them is forgotten in your sight.
Enlighten those who possess power and money
that they may avoid the sin of indifference,
that they may love the common good, advance the weak,
and care for this world in which we live.
The poor and the earth are crying out.
O Lord, seize us with your power and light,
help us to protect all life,
to prepare for a better future,
for the coming of your Kingdom
of justice, peace, love and beauty.
Praise be to you!
Amen.

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

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Pastor David reads Daniel 5:1-12 and offers a prayer from Benedict of Nursia:

Father,
give us wisdom to perceive you,
intellect to understand you,
diligence to seek you,
patience to wait for you,
eyes to behold you,
a heart to meditate on you,
and a life to proclaim you,
through the power of the Spirit
of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, April 16, 2021

Pastor David reads Daniel 3 and offers a prayer from St. Augustine:

O Lord,
The house of my soul is narrow;
enlarge it that you may enter in.
It is ruinous, O repair it!
It displeases Your sight.
I confess it, I know.
But who shall cleanse it,
to whom shall I cry but to you?
Cleanse me from my secret faults, O Lord,
and spare Your servant from strange sins.

What are the golden idols in our lives?

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

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, April 15, 2021

Pastor David reads Daniel 2:31-49 and offers a prayer from James Alexander Forbes, Jr.:

Lord, teach us how to bear witness. Teach us how to be sensitive. Teach us where we are to stop. We can’t be everywhere. Take us by the hand, and lead us to the temples that you’d like us to stop by. Let us see the lame men and women that you would want us to help. Then give us the strength to get up on our feet. Enable us to declare with all that is within us that the Kingdoms of this world must become the Kingdoms of Jesus Christ.

What kingdoms do you put your hope in?

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

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Pastor David reads Daniel 2:17-30 and offers a prayer from the Gelasian Sacramentary (5th Century):

Eternal God,
the light of the minds that know you,
the life of the souls that love you,
the strength of the wills that serve you:
help us so to know you that we may truly love you,
so to love you that we may fully serve you,
whom to serve is perfect freedom.

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

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Pastor David reads Daniel 2:1-16 and offers a prayer from St. Augustine:

Almighty God, in whom we live and move and have our being, you have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until in you they find their rest. Grant us purity of heart and strength of purpose, that no selfish passion may hinder us from knowing your will, no weakness from doing it; but that in your light we may see light clearly, and in your service we may find our perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What are your dreams?

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

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, April 12, 2021

Pastor David reads Daniel 1 and offers a prayer from Psalm 51:

You desire truth in the inward being;
therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Where is your source of wisdom?

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

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, March 8, 2021

Pastor David reads Jeremiah 6:9-15 and 7:1-15 and offers a prayer from William Law:

O holy Jesus, meek Lamb of God, Bread that came down from heaven, light and life of all holy souls: help me to a true and living faith in you. Open yourself within me with all your holy nature and spirit, that I may be born again by you, and in you be a new creation, brought alive and revived, led and ruled by your Holy Spirit.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, March 8, 2021