Heavenly Father, as the semester draws to an end please help us to make the most of the time that we have left together. Please fill our minds and hearts with the gospel. May we keep rejoicing in the undeserved grace that we have been given – your steadfast love, a position as children and… Read more Focus on your grace
Your justice (Nahum)
Gracious Lord, thank you that you are not ignorant or blind to injustice and human cruelty. We look around and see the way that people have and still are treating each other, and grieve over these horrors. We take comfort and hope in the promise of your intervention, that wickedness will be swept away for… Read more Your justice (Nahum)
Worthy of praise
Heavenly Father, please open our eyes to your awesome works in Bible study today. Please help us to marvel at your good plans to redeem your people, bringing them back to enjoy all your faithfulness and generosity. Thank you that through Jesus you have brought about an inheritance of many nations sharing in your blessing.… Read more Worthy of praise
Encouragement
Heavenly Father, thank you for the encouragement of others. Thank you that we are not on our own but have been given each other to keep spurring us on. May we not give up on meeting together and rejoicing in the gospel together. Help us to serve each other well, looking out for each other’s… Read more Encouragement
Listening to your word
Heavenly Father, we know that your word is true, that it is what we need for life and salvation. Please help us this afternoon to listen to it together as a group. May the message of your great king sink into our hearts and change us to love and serve him more and more. Please… Read more Listening to your word
Living for Christ
Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunities we have at uni to grow and be shaped for your glory. Please help our students to keep looking to Christ and seeing him in all his goodness. Thank you that our identity is bound up in him and not our own performance. May we keep looking to… Read more Living for Christ
Psalm 130
Heavenly Father, our hope is in you alone. When we see our sin and failures we recognise their murkiness like the darkest of nights. Lord, we look to you, we wait, we long for the shadows to fade away, but without you we are in the darkest, most insurmountable pit. Father, thank you for the… Read more Psalm 130
Our Father
Oh Lord, thank you that we can call you our Father. We are mere creatures of you our holy and infinite maker, and yet you relate to us in faithful love, with the intimacy and care of a father. How good this is, and yet we had thrown your love in your face and treated… Read more Our Father
Your word impacting
Heavenly Father, thank you for the way we have been able to meet together and be encouraged by your word. Please help us to keep coming together in what ever ways we can to spur each other on to stand for Christ at uni. Please shape by your word that we may love the gospel… Read more Your word impacting
Romans 15
Heavenly Father, please help us to live out the incredible role that you have given us to be priests in your kingdom. May we be ambitious to bring those who are far off to come near to you by sharing the gospel of your great forgiveness in Christ. Help us to set our eyes always… Read more Romans 15