Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Pastor David reads Joshua 8:1-22 and offers a prayer from Francis Paget:

Almighty God, from whom all thoughts of truth and peace proceed, kindle, we pray, in the hearts of all people the true love of peace, and guide with your pure and peaceable wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth; that in tranquility your kingdom may go forward, till the earth is filled with the knowledge of your love; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Monday, July 20, 2020

Pastor David reads Joshua 7:1-13 and offers a prayer from Philipp Melanchthon:

O Son of God, Lord Jesus Christ, you shield and keep us, and love purity. Through your Holy Spirit, pure and spotless, kindle purity in our hearts, and incline our rulers to true devotion. Quench the demonic forces and fires of impurity that rage within our hearts.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, July 20, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, July 17, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 26:17-25 and offers a prayer from Augustine:

O God, our Father, we are exceedingly frail, and indisposed to every virtuous and noble undertaking. Strengthen our weakness, we ask you, that we may be valiant in this spiritual war; help us against our own negligence and cowardice, and defend us from the treachery of our unfaithful hearts; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, July 16, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, July 16, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 26:1-16 and offers a prayer from Bonaventure:

Lord Jesus Christ, pierce my soulw ith your love so that I may always long for you alone, who are the bread of angels and the fulfillment of the soul’s deepest desires. May my heart always hunger and feed on you, so that my soul may be filled with the sweetness of your presence. May my soul thirst for you, who are the source of life, wisdom, knowledge, light, and all the riches of God our Father. May I always seek you and find you, think about you, speak to you, and do everything for the honor and glory of your holy name. Be always my hope, my peace, my refuge, and my help in whom my heart is rooted so that I may never be separated from you.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, July 16, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 25:31-46 and offers a prayer from John Henry Newman:

Dear Jesus, help me to spread your fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may be only a radiance of yours. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul we come into contact with may feel your presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 25:14-30 and offers a prayer from Thomas Ken:

Blessed be your name, Lord God, who has set before me life and death, and has invited me to choose life. Now, Lord God, I choose life, with all my heart. I choose you, my God, for you are my life.
Lord, make me completely holy, that all my spirit, soul, and body may be a temple for you. Live in me, and be my God, and I will be your servant.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Friday, July 10, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 24:15-31 and offers a prayer from Handley Moule:

The blessing of the Lord rest and remain upon all his people,
in every land and of every tongue;
the Lord meet in mercy all who seek him;
the Lord comfort all who suffer and mourn;
the Lord hasten his coming,
and give us his people peace by all means.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, July 3, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, July 9, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 24:1-14 and offers a prayer from Charles Wesley:

Come, Almighty, to deliver;
Let us all thy life receive.
Suddenly return, and never,
Never more thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve thee as thy hosts above,
Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,
Glory in thy perfect love.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, July 3, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 23:27-39 and offers a prayer (a poem) from George Herbert:

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack’d any thing.

“A guest,” I answer’d, “worthy to be here”:
Love said, “You shall be he.”
“I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.”
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
“Who made the eyes but I?”

“Truth Lord, but I have marr’d them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.”
“And know you not,” says Love, “who bore the blame?”
“My dear, then I will serve.”
“You must sit down,” says Love, “and taste my meat”:
So I did sit and eat.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, July 2, 2020

Scripture and Prayer on Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Pastor David reads Matthew 23:13-26 and offers a prayer from Charles Gordon:

O Lord God, grant us always, whatever the world may say, to content ourselves with what you say, and to care only for your approval, which will outweigh all worlds; for Jesus Christ’s sake.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, July 2, 2020