Heavenly Father, by your Holy Spirit, please reshape us to the likeness of Christ. Lord, we cannot bring about this kind of change under our own efforts so please do what only you can do. May your Spirit work powerfully in us by your word and bear fruit in us. May we recognise the gifts… Read more 1 Cor 13
Buoyed by living hope
Heavenly Father, please keep our students captured by your incredible grace to us. May they see the living hope that we have in Christ and be filled with joy. May this buoy them up through the current time of uncertainty and strain. May you strengthen their faith and help them to see the surpassing value… Read more Buoyed by living hope
Keep shaping us
Heavenly Father, please work again to shape us by your word. As we meet together this week may you reorder our desires and priorities to reflect what you love. Help us to honestly consider ourselves and see our failings. May we gladly behold Christ Jesus who rescues us from all our sin. Give us joy… Read more Keep shaping us
Fixing our heart on Christ
Heavenly Father, please help us to fix our eyes on our living hope, the Lord Jesus. What have we to fear when we see that he has conquered death? What can we long for more than his eternal life? Yet we so often set our highest joys so low, settling for meagre scraps when the… Read more Fixing our heart on Christ
Zoom catch ups
Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunity that we have to keep meeting together despite having to be distant from each other. May these times in your word with each other be a great encouragement for us. Help us to be reminded of your goodness and mercy that we receive through Christ. Fill us with… Read more Zoom catch ups
Continuing encouragement
Heavenly Father, thank you for the way our group has still been able to keep in contact with each other. Help us to keep seeing your great character and grace as we look at your word together online. May we continue to encourage each other through this. Cause us to grow in sacrificial love for… Read more Continuing encouragement
Meeting together
Father, thank you for the opportunity we have to meet without having to be physically present. Than you for the time we had as a group, hearing your word to us. Please keep us fixing our eyes on Christ and not spiralling into our own self-centredness. Help us to keep caring for each other and… Read more Meeting together
Birth and almost birth
Gracious Lord, we cast ourselves on you for every need: our health, our livelihoods, our every breath. Though our feeble, sin wracked bodies will crumble, we know we find a mighty stronghold in you who are from everlasting to everlasting. May many find their true hope in you through the gospel of our saviour and… Read more Birth and almost birth
Isaiah 59-61
Lord our God, we know our weakness and sin, it multiplies before us. We turn from you and stumble and fall in our folly. Lord, we don’t try to cloak this but instead we admit it, knowing that we are helpless and in need of you. Father, please clothe us with the garments of salvation.… Read more Isaiah 59-61
Strengthen our faith
Heavenly Father, as we meet together to study your word, please transform us by your Holy Spirit. May our group see Jesus afresh and marvel at who he is. Please fill us with wonder at his magnificent power and gentle care. Please help us to recognise our fears and view them against the backdrop of… Read more Strengthen our faith