Scripture and Prayer on Monday, August 17, 2020

Pastor David reads Acts 7:44-8:1 and offers a prayer from John Knox:

O God of all power, you called from death the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus: comfort and defend the flock which he has redeemed through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Increase the number of true preachers; enlighten the hearts of the ignorant; relieve the pain of the afflicted, especially of those who suffer for the testimony of the truth; by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, August 17, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Pastor David reads John 3:22-36 and offers a prayer from E.B. Pusey:

Lord, keep me always near to you. Let nothing separate me from you, let nothing keep me back from you. If I fall, bring me back quickly to you, and make me hope in you, trust in you, and love you forever.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, August 10, 2020

Pastor David reads John 3:1-21 and offers a prayer from Desiderius Erasmus:

Lord Jesus Christ, you said that you are the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Help us not to stray from you, for you are the Way;
nor to distrust you, for you are the Truth;
nor to rest on any other than you, as you are the Life.
You have taught us what to believe, what to do, what to hope, and where to take our rest.
Give us grace to follow you, the Way, to learn from you, the Truth, and live in you, the Life.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, August 10, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, August 7, 2020

Pastor David reads John 1:43-51 and offers a prayer from Anselm:

Jesus, as a mother you gather your people to you;
You are gentle with us as a mother with her children.
Often you weep over our sins and our pride;
Tenderly you draw us from hatred and judgment.
You comfort us in sorrow and bind up our wounds;
In sickness you nurse us,
And with pure milk you feed us.
Jesus, by your dying we are born to new life;
By your anguish and labor we come forth in joy.
Despair turns to hope through your sweet goodness;
Through your gentleness we find comfort in fear.
Your warmth gives life to the dead;
Your touch makes sinners righteous.
Lord Jesus, in your mercy heal us;
In your love and tenderness, remake us.
In your compassion, bring grace and forgiveness;
For the beauty of heaven may your love prepare us.

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Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, August 6, 2020

Pastor David reads John 1:29-42 and offers a prayer from Dimitri of Rostov:

Come, our Light, and illumine our darkness.
Come, our Life, and raise us from death.
Come, our Physician, and heal our wounds.
Come, Flame of divine Love, and burn up our sins.
Come, our King, sit upon the throne of our hearts and reign there.
For you alone are my King and my Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, August 6, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Pastor David reads John 1:19-28 and offers an anonymous prayer:

My God, I believe in you: increase my faith.
I hope in you: strengthen my hope.
I love you, and desire to love you more and more, and above all things, and above all others: bring to life my love and make me completely yours.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Pastor David reads John 1:1-18 and offers a prayer from Joseph Hart:

How good is the God we adore,
Our faithful, unchangeable Friend!
His love is as great as his power,
And knows neither measure nor end!
‘Tis Jesus, the First and the Last,
Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home:
We’ll praise him for all that is past,
We’ll trust him for all that’s to come.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, July 27, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 27:24-31 and offers a prayer from Treasury of Devotion:

O innocent Jesus, who with wonderful submission was for our sakes condemned to die: Grant that we may bear in mind that our sins were the false witnesses; our blasphemies, backbitings, and evil speakings were the cause of your accepting with gladness the sentence of the impious judge. O may this thought touch our hearts and make us hate those sins which cause your death.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, July 27, 2020