10 May 2016
Collects
Prayers developed from the daily readings
Tuesday 10 May 2016
Morning Prayer
Psalm 25
This psalm is a plea for
protection from personal enemies. The psalmist asks for guidance and
forgiveness and to be taught God’s way and truth. God is asked to guard our
lives, deliver us, allow us to have refuge and for our integrity and
righteousness to preserve us.
Numbers
23: 13 – 30
Again
Balak (king of Moab) takes Balaam (diviner from Mesopotamia) to a different
place where they can see the nation of Israel. Again seven altars are
constructed for sacrifice of a ram and bull on each. Balaam stands aside to
hear God’s word.
Balaam
says: God does not lie, He does not change his mind and, He speaks and it is
done. Balaam says God told him to bless so he blessed. There is no misfortune
for Israel. God is with them. It shall be said, “See what God has done!”
Balak,
unhappy, takes Balaam to yet another place where altars are built and
sacrifices made.
John
16: 25 – 17: 5
Jesus
tells the disciples that he uses figures of speech to help them understand what
he means. Jesus will teach them more clearly in days to come not through
speech. Then they will ask God for things in Jesus’s name because God loves
them and they believe in Jesus. Jesus is going to the Father.
The
disciples say they understand that Jesus knows all things and that Jesus is
from God. Jesus gently challenges them and says that soon they will be
scattered, will go home and leave Jesus. But Jesus will not be alone – God is
with Him. He warns them that they will be persecuted and to have courage.
Jesus
prays: the hour has come for Jesus and God to be glorified, for Christ to have
the authority to give eternal life and for the people to know God, the only God
and Jesus who is from God. Jesus says he has glorified God by doing the work he
was sent to do and asks now to re-experience God’s glory as he did before earth
was created.
Collect for Morning Prayer
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| Crimson Rosellas The Abbey Benedictine Community Jamberoo NSW L Osburn |
Tuesday 10 May 2016
Evening Prayer
Psalm 27
“The Lord is my light and
salvation: whom shall I fear?” The
psalmist seeks God’s face, God’s teaching and God’s level path and ends with,
“Wait for the Lord: be strong and let your heart take courage: wait for the
Lord.”
Deuteronomy
31: 23 – 32: 9
God
commissions Joshua to lead the people into the Promised Land. Moses completes
the Book of Law and decrees that it should be with the Ark of the Covenant
because the people will rebel again and need the reminder. He recites the Book
of Law to the elders. Moses recites his song proclaiming the greatness of God
and how the Israelites are under the direct care and concern of the one
almighty God.
1
Corinthians 12: 1 – 13
Paul
explains the spiritual gifts. The Spirit of God within would never curse Jesus
but will proclaim Jesus Lord. There is only one Spirit and many gifts and many
out-workings of that Spirit but it is God alone who activates the Spirit in
people for the good of all. Some will speak wisely and others will share
knowledge. Some will have great faith, do miracles, prophecy, some speak in
tongues and others interpret that speech. Whatever the gifts and their
out-workings we are united as one body in Christ through baptism and all have
the same spirit within.
Collect for Evening Prayer
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| Lyre-bird one of the great mimics (can mimic the sound of a chainsaw) The Abbey Benedictine Community Jamberoo NSW L Osburn |
God of unity might
and strength you have baptised us into your spirit and give us diverse gifts to
enable us to do your will. Keep us in your spirit Lord so that we slough of
fear, rebellion, guilt and the tendency to build yet another idol, that our hearts
seek you and revel in your strength, justice, faithfulness and goodness as
revealed in our lives and, that we celebrate the diverse gifts activated by
your spirit in your faithful people through Jesus Christ our eternal deliverer.
Amen
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