Father, thank you that you are still at work even when we are weak and sick. Your kingdom does not depend on our strength but your grace. Please help us to keep trusting you in these times. Please help us to do what we can with the strength that you supply. May sickness remind us… Read more Your work in sickness
Month: October 2020
Zephaniah
Heavenly Father, thank you that you have opened our eyes to know you. Help us to keep seeing your holiness and our sin, and rush to you in faith, and depend on you for life and mercy. Thank you that we need not fear your judgement but can rejoice that you are among us as… Read more Zephaniah
Focus on your grace
Heavenly Father, as the semester draws to an end please help us to make the most of the time that we have left together. Please fill our minds and hearts with the gospel. May we keep rejoicing in the undeserved grace that we have been given – your steadfast love, a position as children and… Read more Focus on your grace
Your justice (Nahum)
Gracious Lord, thank you that you are not ignorant or blind to injustice and human cruelty. We look around and see the way that people have and still are treating each other, and grieve over these horrors. We take comfort and hope in the promise of your intervention, that wickedness will be swept away for… Read more Your justice (Nahum)
Worthy of praise
Heavenly Father, please open our eyes to your awesome works in Bible study today. Please help us to marvel at your good plans to redeem your people, bringing them back to enjoy all your faithfulness and generosity. Thank you that through Jesus you have brought about an inheritance of many nations sharing in your blessing.… Read more Worthy of praise
Encouragement
Heavenly Father, thank you for the encouragement of others. Thank you that we are not on our own but have been given each other to keep spurring us on. May we not give up on meeting together and rejoicing in the gospel together. Help us to serve each other well, looking out for each other’s… Read more Encouragement
Listening to your word
Heavenly Father, we know that your word is true, that it is what we need for life and salvation. Please help us this afternoon to listen to it together as a group. May the message of your great king sink into our hearts and change us to love and serve him more and more. Please… Read more Listening to your word
Living for Christ
Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunities we have at uni to grow and be shaped for your glory. Please help our students to keep looking to Christ and seeing him in all his goodness. Thank you that our identity is bound up in him and not our own performance. May we keep looking to… Read more Living for Christ