Month: April 2019

Our good Father, please feed us your word. How impoverished we become when we look to our own devices to nourish our hearts. What styrofoam substitutes they are, promising much but providing nothing! May we see them for what they are and put them where they belong. May we satisfy our souls with the riches… Read more Nourishment

Gracious Lord, so often we doubt your power. Though we know your mighty works of salvation we are slow to trust you. Help us to recount the ways that you have reshaped us through your Spirit, whether monumental or gradual. Remind us through your word of the great gospel declarations: “It is finished;” “He has… Read more Your power to save

Lord, we trust your word. It is as sure as the sky above our heads and as firm as the earth beneath our feet. You spoke and they were set solidly in place. We put our trust in you, like generations before us, knowing that you have been faithful from the beginning. May we delight… Read more Ps 119: Lamedh

Father, we rejoice that we more than remember the events of Easter but that we share in them through Christ. When Christ died, so did our sin; when he rose, we rose justified and pure and with life everlasting. Thank you for the opportunity for our family to hear your word preached at the Keswick… Read more Sharing in Easter

Our Father, stir up in us a genuine delight in you. Your word is good and through it we know you truly, help us to treasure it. May we see in it more and more of your nature and your works and so increase our hunger for you. May we see that all other delights… Read more Delight in God

Lord, help us as a group to see the magnificence of Christ, that in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily. Help us to marvel at the fact that we also are filled in him who is is the head of every authority and rule. He is the king of infinite glory, God himself,… Read more Col 2:9-10

Father, thank you for the faith of the students in PNG. Thank you that the word of truth, the gospel, has come to them. Please strengthen it in them and cause it to bear fruit. Thank you for the way you have helped some students to rejoice even in very trying circumstances at uni. We… Read more Students in PNG

Father, thank you that we have been united with Christ. Our old person was crucified with Christ at the cross and was raised to life again in his resurrection. The old heart of sin that once seeped out all manner of festering thoughts and actions has been incinerated and now we have the wellspring of… Read more Rom 6:5-14

Father, make us a group who rushes to repentance. May we know well the preeminent nature of Christ and his superior work at the cross, and have confidence to draw near to your throne of grace. May we not hide or excuse away our sins but acknowledge them with humility and sorrow, knowing your sure… Read more Rushing to repentance

Father, please guard us from being confused in our understanding or drawn away from the beautiful truth we know in Christ. May we see Christ all the more clearly that we might not be drawn away by deceitful words that have their foundation only in human knowledge. Strengthen us through your word in the Bible… Read more Col 2:8