Prayer for the Day
A prayer that we might reflect God's love
All loving and all-embracing God, our hearts overflow with gratitude when we think and feel your love, manifested in Jesus Christ and poured into our hearts by your Holy Spirit. Let our response be spontaneous praise, praying fervently, reading your words passionately and welcoming the strangers genuinely. Give us charismatic smiles, courteous words and sacrificial hearts when we approach others with your love. Help us to overcome the temptation of being engaged in pious acts to win your favour and instead teach us to live in solidarity with you and with the needy and suffering. Let us and our churches reflect your love in a love-hungry world, now and always. Amen.
Alternative Prayer for the Day
A prayer that we be open to God
Plunged in the ocean of your love, O God, and walking by faith, let us rest in your promises and receive your Holy Spirit. Amen.
A prayer that God might bless our calling
To our calling, O God, grant your blessing, to our souls your strength, to our suffering your fortitude, to our darkness your light, to our faith your joy. Amen.
Benjamin Rhodes, Methodist Itinerant (1743-1815)
Thursday 26 July 2012
"I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." (v. 8b)
Revelation 3:7-13Bible Month
This year Bible Month invites churches and small groups to dive into one of the most joyful and encouraging letters in the New Testament: Philippians.