1 January 2016
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Friday 1
January 2016
Morning
Prayer
Psalm 113
Praise
to God especially for responding to those who are humble and poor and bringing
them to sit with princes. There is no other god like this.
Deuteronomy 30: 6 – 20
If wherever you are you remember what God has done for
you and return to God with all your heart and soul and your children obey God,
God will have compassion. Even if you were exiled to the ends of the earth, God
will bring you back.
God will change your heart so that you love God with
all your heart and soul and live. Enemies will fail and you will be blessed.
This commandment is no too hard to reach or understand. It is a close as your
mouth and your heart.
So this is the choice: choose God and choose life. Or
choose idols and you will not live long in that promised place God has set
aside for us. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live: loving
God, obeying God and holding fast to God all your days.
Acts 3: 1 – 16
Peter and John go to the temple. At the gate called
Beautiful is a lame beggar who asks for alms. Peter utters the famous words:
‘Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give you. In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (v. 6).
The people in the temple hear about the miracle and
flock. Peter tells them they did not do this on their own – from their own
piety but through the name of Christ. God, the God of Abraham glorified Jesus
who you crucified. “You killed the Holy One, the Author of Life who God raised
from the dead” (v.15). By faith, through using Jesus’s name this man’s health
is restored.
Collect for
Morning Prayer
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Friday 1
January 2016
Evening
Prayer
Psalm 115
The psalm starts praising God for faithful and
constant expression of love.
The psalmist ridicules the idol-makers who like their
idols may have the physical senses (eyes, ears, noses…) but make no use of
them. God is contrasted as a sensing and active presence worthy to be trusted.
The psalmist blesses the hearer of the psalm.
Deuteronomy 10: 12 – 11: 1
Moses continues his address to the people before they
begin to enter The Promised Land. The people are to love and serve the Lord
with all their heart and soul and keep the commandments. Do not be stubborn;
God can’t be bribed. God is just and cares for widows, orphans and strangers. Therefore
we are to love our neighbours and the strangers among us. God is the only one
to worship. Remember all of God’s great deeds and be faithful and loyal to God.
Romans
10: 5 – 13
By
faith in our hearts and confession of that faith we are saved – if we confess
Jesus is Lord and believe in your hearts that God raised him from the dead we
will be saved. It is impossible to fulfil all the requirements of Mosaic Law.
In Christ, there is no distinction between Jews and those of other nations.
There is one God and this is the same God for all. Everyone who calls on the
Lord will be saved.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
At the end of a day Alpine National Park Harrietville L Osburn |
Holy God
you are the faithful and steadfast source of love and compassion. Open our
hearts and souls and minds to you. Take away our stubbornness and excuses. Help
us love you, love others and indeed so love them that we confidently state our
beliefs in Christ crucified and raised from the dead by you for the salvation
of all. Help us pass on your compassion to others – the poor, the lonely and
the aliens and disenfranchised in our communities so that we can live the life
you want for all in your love and caring embrace through Jesus Christ our Lord
and Saviour. Amen.
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