Daily Scripture & Prayer from June 23, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Pastor David reads 1 Samuel 7:2-17 and offers a prayer from Robert Robinson:

Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love.

Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by thy help I’m come.
And I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God.
He, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood.

O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it; prone to leave the God I love:
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Daily Scripture & Prayer from June 21, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, June 21, 2021

Pastor David reads 1 Samuel 5 and offers a prayer from Irenaus:

I pray to you, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. You are infinite in mercy, and it is your will that we should learn to know you. You created heaven and earth; you rule over all. You are the true, the only God, and there is no other god above you. Grant, through our Lord Jesus Christ and the working of the Holy Spirit, that all may come to know you, for you alone are God. Let them draw strength from you and be kept from all teaching that is heretical or godless.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, June 21, 2021

Daily Scripture & Prayer from June 18, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, June 18, 2021

Pastor David reads 1 Samuel 3 and offers a prayer from Ignatius of Loyola:

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding,
and my whole will.
All that I have and call my own,
you have given to me.
I surrender it all to you
to be disposed of according to your will.
Give me only your love and your grace;
with these I will be rich enough,
and will desire nothing more.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, June 17, 2021

Daily Scripture & Prayer from June 16, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Pastor David reads 2 Samuel 2:12-26 and offers a prayer from Teresa of Avila:

Govern all by your wisdom, O Lord, so that my soul may always be serving you according to your will, and now as I desire. Do not punish me, I pray, by granting what I want and ask, if it offends your love, which would always live in me. Let me die to myself, that I may serve you; let me live to you, who in yourself are the true Life.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Daily Scripture & Prayer from June 15, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Pastor David reads 1 Samuel 1:21-2:11 and offers a prayer from the Gregorian Sacramentary (10th Century):

Lord God, who by the grace of your Holy Spirit has poured out your love into the hearts of your faithful people: Mercifully grant to those whom we love health of body and soul; that they may serve you with all their strength and gladly fulfill all your good pleasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Daily Scripture & Prayer from June 14, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, June 14, 2021

Pastor David reads 1 Samuel 1:1-20 and offers a prayer from Basil the Great:

O God and Lord of the Powers, and Maker of all creation, who, because of your clemency and incomparable mercy, did send your Only-Begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of humankind, and with his venerable Cross did tear asunder the record of our sins, and thereby did conquer the rulers and powers of darkness; receive from us sinful people, O merciful Master, these prayers of gratitude and supplication, and deliver us from every destructive and gloomy transgression, and from all visible and invisible enemies who seek to injure us. Nail down our flesh with fear of you, and let not our hearts be inclined to words or thoughts of evil, but pierce our souls with your love, that, ever contemplating you, being enlightened by you, and discerning you, the unapporachable and everlasting Light, we may unceasingly render confession and gratitude to you: the eternal Father, with your Only-Begotten Son, and with your All-Holy, Gracious, and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, June 14, 2021

Daily Scripture & Prayer from June 11, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, June 11, 2021

Pastor David reads 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 and offers a prayer from the Syrian Clementine Liturgy:

O God, who are the unsearchable abyss of peace, the ineffable sea of love, the fountain of blessings, and the bestower of affection, who sends peace to those that receive it; open to us this day the sea of your love, and water us with the plenteous streams from the riches of your grace. Make us children of quietness, and heirs of peace. Enkindle in us the fire of your love; sow in us your fear; strengthen our weakness by your power; bind us closely to you and to each other in one firm bond of unity; for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, June 11, 2021

Daily Scripture & Prayer from June 10, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, June 10, 2021

Pastor David reads 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 and offers a prayer from Jan Hus:

O loving Christ, draw me, a weakling, after yourself; for if you do not draw me I cannot follow you. Give me a brave spirit that it may be ready alert. If the flesh is weak, may your grace go before me, come alongside me, and follow me; for without you I cannot do anything, and especially, for your sake I cannot go to a cruel death. Grant me a ready spirit, a fearless heart, a right faith, a firm hope, and a perfect love, that for your sake I may lay down my life with patience and joy.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, June 10, 2021