Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Pastor David reads 1 Corinthians 1:20-31 and offers a prayer from Gertrude of Thuringen:

O God, worthy of an infinite love, I have nothing which can adequately measure your dignity, but such is my desire towards you, that if I had all that you have, I would gladly and thankfully give all to you.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, September 13, 2021

Pastor David reads 1 Corinthians 1:1-19 and offers a prayer from Jeremy Taylor:

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, September 13, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, September 10, 2021

Pastor David reads Philippians 3:1-16 and offers a prayer from Hall’s Psalms and Hymns:

Lord, we thy presence seek;
May ours this blessing be:
Give us a pure and lowly heart,
A temple meet for thee.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, September 10, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, August 19, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 12:28-34 and offers a prayer from Ignatius of Loyola:

Lord Jesus Christ, fill us, we pray, with your light and life that we may show forth your wonderful glory. Grant that your love may so fill our lives that we may count nothing too small to do for you, nothing too much to give and nothing too hard to bear.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, August 19, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 12:13-27 and offers a prayer from John Calvin:

May the Lord grant that we may engage in contemplating the mysteries of his heavenly wisdom with really increasing devotion, to his glory and to our edification.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, August 13, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 10:46-52 and offers a prayer from Benedict:

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 Thursday, August 12, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, August 12, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 10:32-45 and offers a prayer from Henry Martyn:

Send out your light and your truth, that I may live always near to you, my God. Let me feel your love, that I may be as it were already in heaven, that I may do my work as the angels do theirs; and let me be ready for every work, ready to go out or go in, to stay or depart, just as you direct. Lord, let me have no will of my own, or consider my true happiness as depending in the smallest degree on anything that happens to me outwardly, but as consisting totally in conformity to your will.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, August 12, 2021

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Pastor David reads Mark 10:17-31 and offers a prayer from St. Augustine:

O God, who has warned us that you will require much from those to whom much is given: grant that we, whose lot is cast in so goodly a heritage, may strive together the more abundantly, by prayer, by almsgiving, by fasting, and by all appointed means, to extend to those who do not know you what we so richly enjoy; and as we have entered into the labors of others, so to labor, that others may enter into ours, to the fulfillment of your holy will and the salvation of all humankind; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, August 11, 2021