Heavenly Father, you provide us with every good thing, please provide us with all we need this week. Strengthen us to labour in the gospel, pointing these children to the beauty of Jesus. May we do that in the mess of life that they may see the way Christ is our ultimate satisfaction. May the… Read more Kids camp Hervey Bay
Month: December 2019
Travellers
Heavenly Father, please keep us safe as we travel. Keep us alert and sensible as we drive. Please remind us that we are travellers in this place and citizens of another. Keep our eyes set on the horizon of your kingdom, and fill our hearts with longing for it to come in all its fullness.… Read more Travellers
Need
Heavenly Father, we need you so desperately. Please give us eyes to see this and the wisdom to bow before you, to cry out to you as our only true provider. Spare us from stupid pride that stretches up its head and says, “I can do this!” Spare us from the mindless ignorance that keeps… Read more Need
Hope through the mess
Heavenly Father, help us to lean into your steadfast love and take comfort. We are frail in our humanity and quickly crumple under the strain of suffering and brokenness. We can do nothing to reverse the effect of sin in our life and our world – we cast ourselves on you. We cling to you… Read more Hope through the mess
Psalm 119: he
Heavenly Father, please do your work in us. Please change us because we cannot change ourselves. Teach me and the students here at NTE your statutes, cause us to understand your law, and so transform us that our whole heart is set upon it and hangs onto it. Lead us in our blindness into the… Read more Psalm 119: he
Help us see our sin
Merciful Lord, we tentatively ask that you open our eyes to see our sin. I know my wrongdoings Lord, but I do not often see the deep darkness that is it, the mournfulness of it, its cancerous blight in my heart, its offence and repulsiveness to you. Lord correct me, but with judgment, not in… Read more Help us see our sin