Month: October 2019

Heavenly Father, you are our great God and worthy of all praise. We ask that many may come to know the living hope that we have through the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. We join in with the hope of your people through the ages but with more abounding joy, for our hope is… Read more 1 Peter 1:3-9

Heavenly Father, please give us a heart of dependance upon you. As we consider our circumstances and struggles in life, keep us falling to our knees in prayer, crying out to you for the things we need. Keep us longing for your work in us through every difficulty and joy. Please mould us and renew… Read more Heart of dependance

Gracious Lord, please refresh us again through your word. Your word gives us life and so we come to it again and again to drink from this fountain. Through it we are washed clean with your forgiveness; we are restored with your peace; we are rebuked when we wander; we are comforted when we are… Read more Refresh us

Heavenly Father, please keep us enduring to the end. We are weak and battered by sin and need your continuing grace that we might stand firm in Christ. As always, Lord, we cast ourselves on you to bring about what we need. We rejoice in Christ our saviour who is able to hold us to… Read more Enduring

Heavenly Father, please open the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf. May your Holy Spirit convict the hearts of many at JCU of their desperate need of you. Give us opportunities to open your word with them and work in them through this. Please reveal to many your glory and see… Read more Please open eyes

Heavenly Father, please shape my convictions by your word. Settle it deep in me that it might shape my thoughts and actions day by day. Fill me completely with the knowledge of your will that I may rejoice in your wonderful plan of salvation and walk in step with it. May my plans and aspirations… Read more Shape our convictions

Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunity to gather together with the students for dinner and to preach. Please keep working by your Holy Spirit to shape our hearts for your glory. May we be simultaneously be blown away in awe of your holiness and majesty, and drawn in by your goodness and love. Strengthen… Read more Keep working in us

Heavenly Father, please work through your word tonight at the CU dinner. May the evening be encouraging for us all as we spend time together and hear your word. Remind us of your glory and holiness and draw us in again to your goodness and faithfulness. Please reshape our lives around you that we may… Read more Bible talk dinner

Heavenly Father, keep me groaning for the fulfilment of your promises. May we look at our own lives and the nature of the world around us and groan at its brokenness and the blight of sin that covers it or bubbles up out of us. Help us to confront sin rather than conceal it that… Read more Groaning

Heavenly Father, please be gracious to us and give us life in your word. Reshape us from the broken and sinful people we inherently are and form in us the character of Christ. Give us patience as we deal with children and help us to teach them gospel truths, modelling them in our own lives… Read more Shape our character