Lloyd's Prayer

Our friends and fellow gospel workers, the Birchley’s, are back from PNG for a while. It was great to hear Keith preach on Psalm 19. Here is the 1st of some reflective prayers from the passage. Our awesome God, we have but to look up and see the unparalleled spender of your handiwork pointing to… Read more Psalm 19a

Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunity that we have tonight to welcome some of the new students. May many of the first year’s come and be encouraged to find other’s on campus who consider knowing Christ Jesus to be of surpassing value. Please help us to connect well with them. May our students be… Read more Welcome dinner

Heavenly Father, we depend on you for all things, but how often we think we are our own Lord. Please forgive us for the times that we forget your infinite glory. Please help us to keep drinking deeply from your word to see you as our awesome God and loving Father. Help us to grow… Read more Culture of prayer

Heavenly Father, thank you for the new students we were able to talk to today. Please help those students who are just starting out to not be overwhelmed by the first few weeks. May they embrace the opportunity to make new friends and be known as someone who trusts in you. Help us to connect… Read more Market day

Heavenly Father, please enliven our faith. May your Spirit bring about good works in us that reflect who you are. Please stir up in us a love for others that is generous and not afraid to suffer some loss. May we give joyfully; may we serve willingly; may we work as though for you and… Read more Enliven our faith

Reading Mark 5 this morning reminded me of this prayer from the “Valley of Vision,” one that I find so fitting to pray for myself and others when hardships come. O, Lord, I bless you that the issue of battle between yourself and Satan has never been uncertain, and will end in victory! Calvary broke… Read more The servant in battle

Heavenly Father, thank you that you are sowing the seed of your word throughout our universities. Thank you for the students who have heard the good news of Jesus and have accepted it joyfully. Lord, please bring about fruit in their lives one hundredfold. Father, as a group this year please help us to join… Read more The seed

Lord, thank you that you are a God who gives faith generously, and that this faith enables us to see you as our good and heavenly Father, and to know your love towards us that you pour out through Jesus. Stir up a faith in us that clings tightly to your promises Through Jesus you… Read more Faith

Heavenly Father, thank you for the partnership in the gospel that I am able to have with the students here in Cairns. Please help us as we think together about the year ahead. Please help us to be driven by the gospel; hungry for you to feed us by your word; ready to give an… Read more Pre-semester prep

Heavenly Father, thank you for the chance to rest. Thank you for the opportunity we have had to celebrate the coming of Christ with extended family over the Christmas break. Please help us as a family to keep our eyes firmly fixed on him this year. Please help me to serve you well this year… Read more Rest