6 July 2014
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Sunday 6
July 2014
Morning
Prayer
Psalm
66: 7 – 19
Bless
the Lord who holds our souls carefully. We experience difficult times and God
brings us through. The psalmist tells how his own prayers are answered. God is
a God of steadfast love.
Matthew 12: 22 – 32
Jesus heals a person who neither sees nor speaks and is disturbed. Some people ask whether Jesus
is the Messiah. The Pharisees say that Jesus heals with evil power.
Jesus points out the lack of logic by saying it would be like a kingdom
divided – and that kingdom would fall. So it isn’t in evil’s interest to cast
out spirits. Moreover he compares it to robbing a strong person’s house, you
would have to be stronger than him to do it. By this Jesus shows that it is God’s
spirit at work in him that heals.
Jesus then says those who
are not with him are against him and undermining his work. He says people will
be forgiven for sins and blasphemy against him but not against God’s Spirit now
or in the future.
Collect for
Morning Prayer
Great Australian Bight looking East The southern edge of our country SA 2014 L Osburn |
Holy God of compassion and healing, you are our
resilience. You are our strength. Be with us today and let us experience you,
the saving grace of Jesus and your Holy Spirit flowing through our lives so
that we, held by you, can pass on that love to others through Jesus Christ your
Son our Lord, and the power of your Holy Spirit. Amen.
Sunday 6 July 2014
Evening
Prayer
Song
of Songs 2: 8 – 13
The
young man, fit and beautiful as a gazelle stand outside peaking through the
windows and lattice calling gently “Arise my fair one and come away”. All the
hard weather is over. Flowers are out the time for singing is here. There is
fruit; there are blossoms; there is fragrance.
Psalm
145: 8 – 14
This
portion of the psalm praises extols and blesses God for all the great acts of
creation, mercy, salvation, awesome acts, steadfast love, compassion, and
might. What God has done proclaims the glory of the kingdom.
On a
more personal level God is faithful, gracious, upholds people while they are
falling, raises up people who are oppressed.
Romans 9: 1 – 15
Paul tries to explain why
the Jews are not Christians. He deeply would love them to be and he hates his
sense of separation. He explains that not all the children of Abraham or even
Isaac became the people of God’s covenant. It is by God’s grace that we are
made the children of the promise, that we are adopted as God’s children.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
Pink Frangipani WA 2014 L Osburn |
Loving God, you knock on our windows and seek us out. We know the depth of
your love, your compassion and your care for us. Let us hear you. Fill our
hearts with your love and bring us away and into your world of life and love
and promise so that we are refreshed in you through Jesus Christ your Son our
Lord, and the power of your Holy Spirit in our hearts. Amen.
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