Father thank you for the opportunity to meet several students and hear of their faith in Christ Jesus. May our love for one another grow and be obvious to those around us. May we be motivated by the hope laid up for us in heaven. Thank you for those who have come before, sharing the… Read more Connections
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Uni starts soon
Heavenly Father, you are the giver of all good gifts. Help us to be thankful for the big things and the small; physical provisions and character improvements. Thank you for the Word of life, given for us, through whom we have grace and peace. Please use us to sow the seed of the word. We… Read more Uni starts soon
A place to stay
Father, thank you for providing us with a house to rent. Please help us now to be good tenants. Thank you so much for the hospitality of your people here in Cairns while we have been searching. Please grow in us the same generosity for others. Help us also to fix our eyes on the… Read more A place to stay
Dwelling place
Father in heaven, There are so many in NQ who have been flooded from their homes. Please pour your compassion on them and provide them with a place to rest and heal. May your church outdo herself in the kind of generosity and hospitality that can only be motivated by the gospel. Thank you that… Read more Dwelling place
Stability
Sovereign Lord, Our country is caught between fire and flood. We ask that you may temper both of these that we may have safety and stability. Please give comfort and refuge to those who have lost homes. And elsewhere, we ask that you might bring stability to Zimbabwe, a county currently stretched by economic and… Read more Stability
Psalm 1
Lord, by faith we have been planted like trees in your orchard and irrigated with life from your word. Thank you that we can have confidence to stand in your judgment by your grace that has been ultimately poured out through Christ. Help us to drink deeply from the Word, rooted and established in him,… Read more Psalm 1
Sojourning and screaming
Merciful Lord, As we travel through Queensland, pausing for short times here and there help us to remember that our life reflects this sojourning. May we bless God who, through the resurrection of Christ, has for us an imperishable inheritance, kept in heaven for us. Lord, prepare us – set our hope fully on your… Read more Sojourning and screaming
Fruitfulness
Father, You are our provider in all things and the only one who can bring about fruit from barren things. Please do so in our hearts this year. Like a patient gardener, you dug around the roots of your people, cultivating and fertilising in the anticipation of fruit. For so long we produced nothing but… Read more Fruitfulness
Anticipating
After many delays with removalists and worries that I will be stuck in an empty house half a thousand kms away from my wife and kids, I’m on the way to see them on this Christmas Eve. As I drive my thoughts stretch to a greater gathering Father in heaven, we long for that great… Read more Anticipating
Getting ready to go
LORD you return us to dust, our sin brings this about. We willfully rebel against you; we casually ignore you; we turn aside from the one who gives us life and find death. We are stuck in our sin and so we long for your work to be shown to us, your glorious power to… Read more Getting ready to go