21 May 2015
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Thurdsay 21
May 2015
Morning
Prayer
Psalm 50
Almighty God who rules over the entire planet rebukes
the people and explains that God does not need sacrifices of animals. God already
owns all the creatures and plants of the earth. God instead requires
thanksgiving and praise.
For those who do evil, slander others and hate
discipline they have no right to recite the commandments.
“Mark this, then you who forget God” (v.23). Those who
bring thanksgiving honour God and those who go the right way, God will save.
Deuteronomy 4: 9 – 24
Moses charges the people to remember what they saw on
Mt Horeb that they heard God, they saw no form, and they received the
commandments. They are to tell their children and their children’s children.
Moses iterates that he will not be crossing the Jordan
with them because of their sins. He reinforces that they are never to make a
form or image of a living creature or celestial body and worship it. They are
not to make idols. For there is only one God and God cannot share – there is
only God.
John 17: 20 – 26
Jesus prays for all those who will be brought to faith
by the disciples – the church universal. He asks that they have God and Jesus
in them just as Jesus and God are one so that the world may believe.
Jesus has given to us the glory he received from God
so that we all may be one and that we know God loves us just as God loves
Jesus. Jesus also prays that we may be with him in glory.
Jesus has started the world knowing God by showing the
disciples and making God known so that God’s love, in Jesus may be in them.
Collect for
Morning Prayer
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Thursday 21May
April 2015
Evening
Prayer
Psalm 119: 41 – 64
The earth is full of God’s steadfast love and the
psalmist wants to be taught and affirmed and encouraged in understanding and
living by God’ statutes. Through this the psalmist will have the words to say
to those who taunt and the confidence to give testimony to kings. The psalmist
identifies all the ways the commandments and statutes of the Lord enrich life.
Judges 13: 19 – 14: 9
Manoah and his wife make the burnt offering and see
the angel ascend in the smoke. They realise they have seen God. Manoah fears
they will die. His wife allays the fears by reminding Manoah of the message and
the acceptance of the offering.
Samson is born, grows and decides to marry a
Philistine woman against advice. The story tells how he kills a young lion on
his way to see her and on his return the carcass had a hive full of honey,
which he took.
The story thus indicates God can turn bad things to
blessings.
1 Corinthians 13
Paul continues about the gifts of the spirit and puts
love, the love and concern for others as the greatest gift of the spirit. We
can identify it. There are behavioural indicators: patience, kindness, lacking
envy, not boasting, never arrogant or rude, not insisting on one’s own way, not
irritable or resentful, not celebrating wrongdoing but celebrating truth. Love
endures. Whereas other spiritual gifts can come and go, most of them will only
be fully experienced when we are face-to-face with God. Meanwhile, the three
top gifts are faith, hope and love. Of these, love is the principal gift of the
spirit.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
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Holy and gracious God, the universe is full of your
love so much so that even dreadful circumstances can lead to outpourings of
love and grace. Guide us to live by your commandments and help us to reflect
every day on the way we behave so that we are seen to be loving, grow our faith
in confidence and have lives that give testimony to you through Jesus Christ
your Son our Lord and Saviour. Amen.
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