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Heavenly Father, you are the great God of all creation. You have made all things for your glory yet we so often seek our own, ignoring your majesty and grace. Please forgive us for the times when we still do this. We pursue our lives with selfishness rather than with love for you and our… Read more Our sin, faith in Christ

Heavenly Father, thank you that you have not left us in sin but have graciously pursued us and saved us. Help us as a group today to live and speak in light of this great reality in our life. May many students come to know you as our rescuer and gracious father. Please help us… Read more Market day

Our great God, you have revealed your glory to us through the Lord Jesus. We gaze upon him, full of grace and truth, and we rejoice. Lord, strengthen our weak hands, steady our knees, and give us courage in the face of our weakness. You have judged sin through Christ, and you have saved us!… Read more Isaiah 35

Heavenly Father, please work in and through the students here at Cairns. May you fill them with the knowledge of you, that they may revel in your glory and seek to make you known. May they see Christ all the more clearly, making much of him while they are here. May we rejoice together in… Read more Work among us

Heavenly Father, please speak through your word as it is read and preached tomorrow. Please speak to me through it, I need it, for it brings life through its gospel message. Make me crave it, seeing my hopeless deficiencies and the fountain of grace that is found in your word. Give strength and humility to… Read more Speak through your word

Heavenly Father, please train my heart to turn to you. You are the almighty God who made all things and gives every good gift. Lean my heart in to you, that I may see the grace that you pour out on me at every moment. Make me quick to cry out to you when I… Read more Turning to you

Heavenly Father, please reshape the desires of the students and myself in light of the gospel. Move our hearts to cherish the work of Christ in saving us from the disaster of sin, and restoring us to life in abundance with you. Stir in us a heart of longing to see others brought into your… Read more Desire to pray

Gracious Lord, you are infinitely above all things, may we know your majesty and consider your glory that fills the whole earth. To you the angels cry, “Holy, holy, holy,” and we cry, “We are ruined.” We so obviously fall far short of your glory but instead are loaded up with sin. Make us humble… Read more Isaiah 6

Heavenly Father, please prepare my heart for the year ahead. May I lean on the strength that you provide and not on my own endeavours. May your Spirit teach me to pray and long for the things that you desire. Refine my heart, that I may find my satisfaction in you, rejoicing in your love,… Read more Prepare me

Gracious LORD, please raise our eyes from the limited things around us to that which is wonderful. Shift our gaze to you. Please show us your nature – your goodness and beauty; your power and unparalleled glory. Let those things that trouble us day by day seem fleeting and tiny compared to your infinite majesty… Read more Shift our gaze