Scripture and Prayer on Friday, October 9, 2020

Pastor David reads Micah 3:9-4:5 and offers a prayer (a hymn) from Isaac Watts:

Jesus shall reign where’er the sun does its successive journeys run.
His kingdom spread from shore to shore, ’til moons shall wax and wane no more.

To him shall endless prayer be made, and endless praises crown his head.
His name like sweet perfume shall rise with every morning sacrifice.

People and realms of every tongue dwell on his love with sweetest song.
And infant voices shall proclaim their early blessings on his name.

Let every creature rise and brings its grateful honors to our King.
Angels descend with songs again, and earth repeat the loud “Amen!”

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, October 8, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, October 8, 2020

Pastor David reads Micah 3:1-8 and offers a prayer from Martin Luther:

Lord God, graciously comfort and care for all who are imprisoned, hungry, thirsty, naked, and miserable; also all widows, orphans, sick, and sorrowing. In brief, give us our daily bread, so that Christ may abide in us and we in him forever, and that with him we may worthily bear the name of Christian.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, October 8, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Pastor David reads Micah 1:1-9 and offers a prayer from the Leonine Sacramentary:

Grant, we ask you, O Lord our God, that in whatever dangers we are placed, we may call upon your name, and that when deliverance is given us from on high, we may never cease from your praise; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, October 5, 2020

Pastor David reads Hosea 14:1-9 and offers a prayer from John Donne:

Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which is my sin, though it were done before?
Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run,
And do run stil, though still I do deplore?
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done,
For I have more.

Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I have won
Others to sin? and made my sin their door?
Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun
A year or two, but wallowed in, a score?
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done,
For I have more.

I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;
Swear by Thyself, that at my death Thy Son
Shall shine as He shines now and heretofore;
And, having done that, Thou hast done,
I fear no more.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, October 5, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Pastor David reads Hosea 4:1-9 and offers a prayer from Christina Rossetti:

O God, though our sins be seven, though our sins be seventy times seven, though our sins be more in number than the hairs of our head, yet give us grace in loving penitence to cast ourselves down into the depths of your compassion.

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

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, September 28, 2020

Pastor David reads Hosea 2:14-23 and offers a prayer from Lancelot Andrewes:

Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart
while I read the scriptures.

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

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, September 25, 2020

Pastor David reads Luke 4:31-37 and offers a prayer from Jerome:

Lord, you have given us your Word for a light to shine upon our path;
grant us so to meditate on that Word, and to follow its teaching,
that we may find in it the light that shines more and more until the perfect day;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, September 25, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, September 17, 2020

Pastor David reads Job 28 and offers a prayer from Jerome:

Lord, you have given us your Word for a light to shine upon our path;
grant us so to meditate on that Word, and to follow its teaching,
that we may find in it the light that shines more and more until the perfect day;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, September 17, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Pastor David reads Job 42:1-17 and offers a prayer from John Chrysostom:

I am not worthy, Lord and Master, that you should come under the roof of my soul. Nevertheless, since you desire, O lover of mankind, to dwell within me, I am bold to draw near. You invite me to open the door which you alone have made, that entering in there you may bring light into my darkened mind. I do believe that you will do this.
For you did not throw out the prostitute when she came with tears, neither did you reject the tax collector when he repented, nor did you reject the thief when he sought to enter your kingdom, nor did you reject the persecutor when he repented. But you treated all who came to you in penitence as your friends. You alone are to be blessed, now and for ever.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Pastor David reads Job 41:1-11 and offers a prayer from the Liturgy of St. James:

Let all mortal flesh keep silent, and with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly-minded, for with blessing in his hand,
Christ our God to earth descendeth, our full homage to demand.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, September 15, 2020