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

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, November 20, 2020

Pastor David reads Malachi 3:1-12 and offers a prayer from William Barclay:

Help me
to live in purity;
to speak in truth;
to act in love
all through today.
This I ask for Jesus’s sake.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, November 20, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, November 19, 2020

Pastor David reads Malachi 2:1-16 and offers a prayer from Nicholas of Flue:

My Lord and my God, take me from all that keeps me from you.
My Lord and my God, grant me all that leads me to you.
My Lord and my God, take me from myself and give me completely to you.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, November 19, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Pastor David reads Malachi 1:1-2, 6-14 and offers an anonymous prayer:

All things come from you, and of your own do we give to you. Accept and bless, O God our Father, these our gifts, and pour out on us the spirit of your own abundant giving; that as we have freely received, so we may freely give, to the glory of your name; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Pastor David reads Habakkuk 3:1-10, 16-18 and offers a prayer from Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady:

Through all the changing scenes of life,
In trouble and in joy,
The praises of my God shall still
My heart and tongue employ.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, November 16, 2020

Pastor David reads Habakkuk 2:1-4, 9-20 and offers a prayer for us today.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, November 16, 2020