Heavenly Father, please do your work in us. Please change us because we cannot change ourselves. Teach me and the students here at NTE your statutes, cause us to understand your law, and so transform us that our whole heart is set upon it and hangs onto it. Lead us in our blindness into the… Read more Psalm 119: he
Help us see our sin
Merciful Lord, we tentatively ask that you open our eyes to see our sin. I know my wrongdoings Lord, but I do not often see the deep darkness that is it, the mournfulness of it, its cancerous blight in my heart, its offence and repulsiveness to you. Lord correct me, but with judgment, not in… Read more Help us see our sin
Psalm 119: Taw
Our gracious Lord , we cry out to you with a deep need to know you, with longing to understand your word. In your word we see your majestic nature and your wonderful salvation. You are the God who saves, so please deliver us from our weakness and sin. May the students at NTE know… Read more Psalm 119: Taw
Psalm 119: Resh
Heavenly Father, please step into our situation to deliver us. We are weighed down by all kinds of suffering and need you to intervene and bring about life. In the midst of affliction we turn to you, knowing that your word restores us and fills our heart with your steadfast love. We know the depth… Read more Psalm 119: Resh
Hebrews 4:14 etc
Almighty God, we rejoice in Christ our saviour who stands as our great high priest. May we cling on to him as our true representative, truly man and not unable to sympathise with our weakness, but may we cling with great confidence because he is not beset with that weakness as we are, for he… Read more Hebrews 4:14 etc
Bring fruit from your word
Lord, please help us to sow your word into our hearts day by day and please cause it to bear fruit. When we open it, may we see and not just look, may we listen and not just hear. Work in us by your Spirit to incline our hearts towards it and be deeply impacted.… Read more Bring fruit from your word
Fill my mind and heart
Heavenly Father, please fill my mind with good things. Let me see your character afresh as I look at your word and bring me to my knees in awe and worship. Flood my heart with your grace that I may love what is good rather than doggedly pursuing sin. Cleanse my soul through the work… Read more Fill my mind and heart
Keep shaping me
Gracious Lord, please keep shaping me by your word. As I read and prepare to teach from your word, please open my eyes to behold wondrous things within it. Turn my heart from the worthless things I so often elevate and help me to treasure your grace to me in Christ, and let me feed… Read more Keep shaping me
Labouring in your word
Heavenly Father, please keep me labouring in your word. May I see the beauty and life that it holds and point others to it. Please help me to rightly handle the word of truth, understanding it thoroughly and teaching it faithfully. Help me to speak of your gospel, working hard and enduring all things that… Read more Labouring in your word
1 Peter 1:3-9
Heavenly Father, you are our great God and worthy of all praise. We ask that many may come to know the living hope that we have through the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. We join in with the hope of your people through the ages but with more abounding joy, for our hope is… Read more 1 Peter 1:3-9