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Lord, please keep working through your word. This is our deepest need, for both me and the students at JCU. Strengthen us to keep serving you wholeheartedly. Open our eyes to see Christ in all his majesty and draw us to him. May you root out any weed of sin that springs up in our… Read more Work through your word

Heavenly Father, I ask that our conversations today may be rich in the gospel. Help me to point the students at JCU to Christ and the beauty of a life that is under his loving rule. Help us to walk together as children of light, discerning what is pleasing to you in our thoughts, words… Read more Rich conversations

Lord, please help us to be a group who wants to see your kingdom grow. Please make us like good soldiers, true athletes, hardworking farmers, who love to please you and share in your joy. Make us people who are quick to speak of the grace that is in Christ Jesus and of the gospel… Read more Kingdom growth

Heavenly Father, I ask that we will not be daunted by the wrestle that we have with sin. Sin, although defeated, damned and done away with in Christ, still seems to have some afterglow in our flesh, and at times seems more like a mortally wounded beast. Cornered by the good law of God in… Read more Rom 7

Our good Father, please feed us your word. How impoverished we become when we look to our own devices to nourish our hearts. What styrofoam substitutes they are, promising much but providing nothing! May we see them for what they are and put them where they belong. May we satisfy our souls with the riches… Read more Nourishment

Gracious Lord, so often we doubt your power. Though we know your mighty works of salvation we are slow to trust you. Help us to recount the ways that you have reshaped us through your Spirit, whether monumental or gradual. Remind us through your word of the great gospel declarations: “It is finished;” “He has… Read more Your power to save

Lord, we trust your word. It is as sure as the sky above our heads and as firm as the earth beneath our feet. You spoke and they were set solidly in place. We put our trust in you, like generations before us, knowing that you have been faithful from the beginning. May we delight… Read more Ps 119: Lamedh

Father, we rejoice that we more than remember the events of Easter but that we share in them through Christ. When Christ died, so did our sin; when he rose, we rose justified and pure and with life everlasting. Thank you for the opportunity for our family to hear your word preached at the Keswick… Read more Sharing in Easter

Our Father, stir up in us a genuine delight in you. Your word is good and through it we know you truly, help us to treasure it. May we see in it more and more of your nature and your works and so increase our hunger for you. May we see that all other delights… Read more Delight in God

Lord, help us as a group to see the magnificence of Christ, that in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily. Help us to marvel at the fact that we also are filled in him who is is the head of every authority and rule. He is the king of infinite glory, God himself,… Read more Col 2:9-10