9 November 2014
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Sunday 9
November 2014
Morning
Prayer
Psalm 96
Sing praise to the Lord! Ascribe to God
the glory of creation. Let everything, the heavens, the trees, everything sing
and praise God.
1 Thessalonians 4: 1 – 8
Paul
urges the Thessalonians to live in ways that please God. There is to be no
exploitation of anyone, especially sexually. In holiness and honour our bodies
are to be controlled. God did not call us to impurity but to holiness and who
ever rejects this, isn’t rejecting human authority but the authority of the one
who gave us the Holy Spirit.
Collect for
Morning Prayer
Pre-dawn Lake Mulwala NSW 2014 L Osburn |
Great
Creator and protector of all you love. Give us the grace, courage and power to
love you in holiness and purity. Help us to love others in ways that honour you
and them, so that you and the people who are called by your name are shown to
be for freedom from all oppression and liberation from exploitation through Jesus Christ our saviour and your Holy Spirit in our
hearts, Amen.
Sunday 9
November 2014
Evening
Prayer
Judges 2: 7 – 19
Joshua son of Nun and the people who came through the
desert, who are faithful to God in the Promised Land, die. Subsequent
generations do not know or follow the Law and instead worship other gods and
idols. God does not support their ventures. God sends judges who appeal to God
and so the people are rescued from those who oppress or persecute them. But as
soon as the judge dies the people stubbornly revert to worshipping Baals and
other gods.
Psalm 63
As a drought-ravaged land seeks water so our souls
seek God. God’s love is better than life. God’s love is like a rich feast.
Meditating on God causes our souls to sing.
The psalm ends with a plea for personal security.
Matthew 24: 21 - 35
This section is about the ordeals to come – great
suffering which will be cut short else everyone would perish. We are warned to
avoid false prophets. The coming of Christ will be obvious it won’t be a person
in the wilderness or someone in a city room. There will be cosmic signs and
people on earth will mourn.
We are to learn from fig trees. As soon as the branch
has shoots and puts out leaves we know summer comes. When we see the warning
signs we are to know Christ is near.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
Gulls at sunset Streaky Bay SA 2014 L Osburn |
Holy Lord
you have given us everything including your Son yet we often seek another slice
of your great inheritance. You know our hearts yearn for you. Give us the
patience to wait out the ordeals to come, to not seek personal prosperity, a
quick fix or a prophet with an answer. Keep our hearts and ears and minds open
to you and to your presence here and now and faithfully to look to the time
when you come in glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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