Heavenly Father, please open our eyes that we may behold wondrous things in your word this evening. May we marvel at your grace to us, your love poured out to us though we had turned our back on you. May our hearts be consumed with longing to know you and delight in you. Thank you… Read more Thanks for your word
From NTE
Here’s what our national director Richard Chin has been praying for NTE, and what I continue to echo for our students and myself. Heavenly Father, thank you for the glorious gospel concerning your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Please open our eyes to the gravity of Christ’s glory as we continue to bathe in the… Read more From NTE
Strand groups
Heavenly Father, please sustain the students as they work hard exploring the depths of your word. Please work by your Spirit to help them see the treasure that is Christ. Help it to sink into their hearts and transform them. Please give them insight to see the implications of your word for us and those… Read more Strand groups
Thanks for NTE
Heavenly Father, thank you for the 300 students that have been able to come along to NTE in Queensland. We are so thankful that we can even hold an event like this, that you have brought circumstances about to have safe gatherings of this size, that you have provided a team of organisers able to… Read more Thanks for NTE
From staff training
Heavenly Father, please help us as AFES staff to draw together our thoughts from the last couple of days. Help us to keep the gospel of Christ at the root of our thinking about the coming years. Please give us insight into our culture and the current shape of university life. Please give us imaginative… Read more From staff training
December staff conference
Heavenly Father, thank you that we have been able to meet in person as a QLD staff team today, as well as online with the rest of the staff throughout the country. Thank you for the encouragement it has been to be in the same space as my fellow gospel workers and remember your grace… Read more December staff conference
1 Peter 1:8
Heavenly Father, though we have not seen Jesus face to face, please help us to know him truly. Help us to hear your word to us and know how desperately we needed to be lifted up out of the bog of our sin. Fan up our love for Christ as we see how completely he… Read more 1 Peter 1:8
Bigger perspective
Heavenly Father, please help our students during this last leg of exams to keep a bigger perspective. Help them to look often beyond the desktop to the splendour and majesty of your character. Help them to see your handiwork in the creation around them and remember your intricate and loving providence. As they recall all… Read more Bigger perspective
My God is king (Ps 74)
Father, we take great comfort in being able to say, “My God is king,” for we say it in the midst of our brokenness and sin. We have seen the way that our folly and pride has isolated us from you and made a ruin of that good life of loving you and loving our… Read more My God is king (Ps 74)
A good year
Heavenly Father, thank you for the students who have been shaped by your word in JCU this year. May their joy in Christ grow more and more as they see more and more their own weakness and sin and recognise the surpassing worth of Christ in them. Amen. Thanks for echoing this prayer as you… Read more A good year