Month: June 2020

Gracious Lord, please grant us more and more patience. We need your work in our hearts to bring this about. Keep us turning to you when we are frustrated. Help us to see you as the Lord of all, who is sovereign and caring, who brings about your good plans. Help us to be swept… Read more More patience

Heavenly Father, please help us to be steeped in your word. May we know your word well as it is able to make us wise for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. May we be equipped by your word for every good work. May we preach it, reprove, correct, and exhort, with complete patience and… Read more Senior staff Timothy prayer C

Heavenly Father, help me to present myself to you as an unashamed worker who correctly handles the word of truth. Please cleanse me and make me holy in Christ, useful to him and prepared for any good work. May I flee evil passions, and instead pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace. When opponents arise, may… Read more Senior staff Timothy prayer B

Over the last three days, the senior staff of AFES have been gathering together for our annual conference (online this year). Every day, Peter Adam has lead us through this prayer from 2 Timothy – a prayer to echo through my lifetime. Here’s part A: Dear Heavenly Father, please help me to fan into flames… Read more Staff conference

Heavenly Father, please help the students to keep rejoicing in your goodness as they draw near to the end of semester. Help them to work diligently as they complete assignments. Help them to study in preparation for their exams early next semester without obsessing over them. May they be able to rest well, knowing that… Read more Students in exam week.

Heavenly Father, thank you that your steadfast love endures forever. We marvel that you do not simply relate to us, but that you have so graciously and faithfully committed yourself to us. Lord, we marvel all the more knowing that we have been week and failing from the beginning. Please keep pouring out your faithful… Read more Your continuing love

Heavenly Father, please help the students to let your word soak deeply into their lives. May they hear it with a joy that comes the Holy Spirit. May they know it for what it really is, not the word of man, but you speaking to them. Please cause it to be at work in them.… Read more Soak in your word

Heavenly Father, please help us to see the shape of life as it was before Christ. Help us to recognise the marring and blighting of sin in the way we once lived. Lord, may we be glad to lose this life and find ourselves saved in the life of Christ. Please help our students see… Read more Gospel life

Heavenly Father, we are so prone to wander away from you way, so plant your word deep in us so that it may guard our hearts. May we store it up, filling our minds with it; listening to it preached and read; poring over it and soaking it up. Lord we rejoice and delight in… Read more Ps 119: Beth

Heavenly Father, thank you for the Bible studies that we have been able to continue to have despite such a messed up semester. Please keep reshaping our hearts by your Spirit as we dig into your word together. Please help the students to keep holding on to Christ and marvelling at all his goodness to… Read more Continued Bible studies