Heavenly Father, please grow in us a heart to see others come into your kingdom. May you fill our minds with your goodness to us in Christ, and transform our hearts to love. Lord, we acknowledge that we often fall short in our love of you and others, we need you to change us by… Read more Pointing others to Jesus
Encouragement through your word
Heavenly Father, thank you for your word and the encouragement that we have from it as we listen with soft hearts to what you are saying to us. Please keep teaching me and our group at JCU the goodness of the gospel. Help us to keep seeing the hope that lets us stand up under… Read more Encouragement through your word
Joy in the mess of sin
Heavenly Father, please help us to number our days and grow a heart of wisdom. Please help us to see how short our life is and that sin has broken and destroyed our world leaving us without peace and facing your wrath. Help us to see things from your perspective, recognising the tragedy of our… Read more Joy in the mess of sin
Pointing to Christ
Heavenly Father, please remind us here in our group at JCU of the momentous news of Jesus. May the news that he is Lord sink deep into our hearts and cause us to repent and believe the gospel. May we delight in his lordship, seeing that there is truly no king like him, who loves,… Read more Pointing to Christ
Weak work and God’s grace
Heavenly Father, thank you for the way that you graciously work behind the scenes. I am weak but you are strong and you build your kingdom through your word. Please help me to keep trusting you in season and out, and to keep pointing people to Jesus our great hope and salvation. Thank you for… Read more Weak work and God’s grace
Sickness
Heavenly Father, please help us to learn that you are strong even though we are weak. May times of sickness make us acutely aware of your sufficient grace, that you alone are able to save. Keep us rejoicing in the glorious position in which you have placed us with Christ, that even though we are… Read more Sickness
Bible study beginnings
Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunity to meet together this week and read your word. Please help us to be a group that does not merely read it, but one that listens to it. Please help us to read it faithfully, seeing how it all comes together and is fulfilled in the person of… Read more Bible study beginnings
Market day semester 2
Heavenly Father, thank you for the students that we were able to meet during market day this week. Please help us to be able to connect well with them. May new students feel welcome and comfortable to join in with our group on campus. As people join in this semester, please help us to clearly… Read more Market day semester 2
Great rescuer
Heavenly Father, so often we ignore the dreadfulness of sin. Father, please forgive us for calling good what you have said is evil and what we ultimately see only brings us brokenness and and death. Lord when we see our sin for what it is we cannot help but feel trapped and helpless. How often… Read more Great rescuer
Ps 84
Lord of armies, please stir up our hearts to know you as the living God. Help us to repent and turn away from the dead gods of our own making that we have scrapped together from your own beautiful creation. May our hearts instead lean in to you, the one who has given us all… Read more Ps 84