Heavenly Father, please shape my convictions by your word. Settle it deep in me that it might shape my thoughts and actions day by day. Fill me completely with the knowledge of your will that I may rejoice in your wonderful plan of salvation and walk in step with it. May my plans and aspirations… Read more Shape our convictions
Keep working in us
Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunity to gather together with the students for dinner and to preach. Please keep working by your Holy Spirit to shape our hearts for your glory. May we be simultaneously be blown away in awe of your holiness and majesty, and drawn in by your goodness and love. Strengthen… Read more Keep working in us
Bible talk dinner
Heavenly Father, please work through your word tonight at the CU dinner. May the evening be encouraging for us all as we spend time together and hear your word. Remind us of your glory and holiness and draw us in again to your goodness and faithfulness. Please reshape our lives around you that we may… Read more Bible talk dinner
Groaning
Heavenly Father, keep me groaning for the fulfilment of your promises. May we look at our own lives and the nature of the world around us and groan at its brokenness and the blight of sin that covers it or bubbles up out of us. Help us to confront sin rather than conceal it that… Read more Groaning
Shape our character
Heavenly Father, please be gracious to us and give us life in your word. Reshape us from the broken and sinful people we inherently are and form in us the character of Christ. Give us patience as we deal with children and help us to teach them gospel truths, modelling them in our own lives… Read more Shape our character
NQCC approaching
Heavenly Father, thank you for the diverse collection of people whom you have brought into your kingdom. Please unite us around the gospel and feed us by your word. Thank you for the opportunity for many churches to come together at the North Queensland Christian Convention. Please equip those who are organising different things to… Read more NQCC approaching
Christ’s work in us
Gracious Lord, please build up our joy knowing that sin no longer is our master. Its power has been dethroned and it no longer drives us; its sting has been removed and the grave can no longer crush us. Open our eyes to the beauty of our position of grace and forgiveness in Christ. Help… Read more Christ’s work in us
Trust during stress
Heavenly Father, please help the students here to keep trusting in you during the stress of exams and assignments. Help them to be diligent in their studies without being trapped by the alluring but fleeting promises of success. Keep them longing for and depending on your great promises in Christ. Build up an unshakable confidence… Read more Trust during stress
Ruth 4
Father, thank you that your redeemer was determined to secure an inheritance for your people regardless of how it might impair him. Thank you that your steadfast love was shown to your people through this redeemer and that those who were once counted dead have been given life. You have brought about restoration, peace and… Read more Ruth 4
Patience in sickness
Heavenly Father, please give us patience in sickness. Help us to endure with joy in the unchangeable and glorious truths of the gospel. Help us to grow in love for each other, ready to serve each other’s needs over our own. Please restore us to full health again soon. May times of sickness remind us… Read more Patience in sickness