10 January 2016
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Sunday 10 January
2016
Morning
Prayer
Psalm 111
Praise
God for great deeds, honour, majesty, enduring righteousness and mercy. God has
sent us redemption. Respecting God is the beginning of wisdom.
Romans
6: 1 – 11
Paul
reminds us that through baptism in Christ we need to consider ourselves dead to
sin and therefore not a slave to sin anymore. We are alive in Christ and
walking in newness of life. He charges us to sin no more and walk in newness of
life gained for us by Christ’s death and resurrection.
Collect for
Morning Prayer
New wild orchid WA National Park L Osburn |
Sunday 10 January
2016
Evening Prayer
Isaiah 43: 15 – 21
Babylon is about to be conquered. This is the promise
that God is about to do something new, forgive the people and change the world.
They will not only survive the changes but prosper, be restored and commit
themselves and their children to God.
Psalm 2
This is a rhetorical psalm asking
why some people think they can break the bond between God and his anointed one
(messiah). The psalmist thinks it is laughable. God is all-powerful and the
anointed one is his begotten son. God’s power could be used to punish and
correct. Let humans be warned to respect God. Those that take refuge in the
Lord will be happy.
John 1: 19 – 34
John the Baptist clearly reveals to the priests and
Levites that he is neither the messiah nor a reincarnated prophet of old. He is
the voice crying in the wilderness to get people prepared for the Messiah. John
baptises with water. The messiah will baptise with the Holy Spirit.
The next day John sees Jesus approaching and sees the
Spirit come down from heaven like a dove and remain on him. From this John
knows that Jesus is the Messiah – the Son of God.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
New gum blossoms Cape Le Grand National park WA L Osburn |
Holy Lord,
you make our joy complete by giving us your Son, the start of something new,
the redeemer, and bringer of your Holy Spirit. Open our hearts to your embrace
and to deep reverence so that we too properly acknowledge Christ and are filled
and fuelled by your Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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