Month: September 2019

Gracious Lord, please build up our joy knowing that sin no longer is our master. Its power has been dethroned and it no longer drives us; its sting has been removed and the grave can no longer crush us. Open our eyes to the beauty of our position of grace and forgiveness in Christ. Help… Read more Christ’s work in us

Heavenly Father, please help the students here to keep trusting in you during the stress of exams and assignments. Help them to be diligent in their studies without being trapped by the alluring but fleeting promises of success. Keep them longing for and depending on your great promises in Christ. Build up an unshakable confidence… Read more Trust during stress

Father, thank you that your redeemer was determined to secure an inheritance for your people regardless of how it might impair him. Thank you that your steadfast love was shown to your people through this redeemer and that those who were once counted dead have been given life. You have brought about restoration, peace and… Read more Ruth 4

Heavenly Father, please give us patience in sickness. Help us to endure with joy in the unchangeable and glorious truths of the gospel. Help us to grow in love for each other, ready to serve each other’s needs over our own. Please restore us to full health again soon. May times of sickness remind us… Read more Patience in sickness

Heavenly Father, please shape us into a group that is devote to prayer. Keep us looking to your great promises in your word and longing for you to bring them about. Align our hearts to love the things you love, changing our motivations and the thing for which we labour. May we rejoice in your… Read more Keep us prayerful

Heavenly Father, we need you to pour out your grace, we need you to step in and save that we may walk in your ways. We readily recognise our weakness and call to you for help, but we cry with hope in your powerful word. Our restless souls find confidence in your promise and your… Read more Ps 119:Qoph

Gracious Lord, please compel our hearts by the infinite value of the gospel. May we see more clearly the desperate need we all have of you to deliver us from our sin. May our own failings not prevent us from pointing others to you but fuel us to rejoice in and herald your mercy. Drive… Read more Compel our hearts

Heavenly Father, please help us to know and depend on your word. May we see in it your trustworthy nature and rejoice in the way that you have consistently poured out your grace upon unworthy sinners like us. Help us to hold firmly to the saving gospel of our Lord Jesus that we see in… Read more Depending on your word

Heavenly Father, you have brought about our ultimate redemption through Christ, the most worthy one of all. We praise him as the one who stepped in for us and sought out redemption for us, appealing to you for our secure place under the shelter of your wings. We depend upon our Lord Jesus to be… Read more Ruth 3

Lord, prepare our hearts to hear your word. Thank you for those who are preaching it to your people tomorrow. May they faithfully take your word and plaster it on our hearts for our correction or encouragement. May we be built up in faith and spurred on to keep running the race with hope, and… Read more Prepare our hearts again