Here are some resources to help us worship at home this weekend.
Read:
Take this time to consider a bible reading plan
https://www.ligonier.org/posts/bible-reading-plans
If you don’t want to pick a reading plan consider reading one or all of the following.
Genesis 1
Matthew 1
Daniel 7
Pray:
https://lectio365.24-7prayer.com/share/devotionals/2025-01-05/morning?locale=en
You will need to download the lectio app on your phone. Click the link above to download the app.
A Sabbath Prayer for Prayer by Jill Weber Lectio 365 app
Today is Sunday the 5th of January. Today we will take the Sabbath by rejoicing and reflecting, asking and yielding, to pray the Bible and embrace a day of rest.
Eugene Peterson describes Sabbath as a time to receive silence and let it deepen into gratitude.
And so, on this day of rest as we prepare to pray we settle into silence and allow thankfulness to bubble up inside.
Pause and Pray
A Prayer of Contentment from Psalm 131 (NIV)
1 My heart is not proud, Lord,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.
2 But I have calmed and quieted myself,
I am like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child I am content.
3 Israel, put your hope in the Lord
both now and forevermore.
In the silence of this moment, I express my deep gratitude for the Church:
Father, thank you for your beautiful, multicultural, intergenerational family, gathering today in so many countries. Revive and sanctify us, I pray. Make us a house of prayer for all nations. And set our hearts on fire again with the good news of your gospel.
I take a moment now to ask these big prayers locally by naming members of our church and friends who are finding life particularly tough.
Pause and Pray
I dedicate the coming week to Jesus
Thank you, Father, for loving me with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.
Inspire me this week to love you more with all of mine.
Thank you, Jesus, for your faithful and sacrificial friendship.
Help me the week to be a faithful and sacrificial friend like you.
Thank you, Holy Spirit, for listening to my many thoughts and words and dreams.
Still my soul this week to listen much more carefully to yours.
Sabbath Blessing
May this day bring Sabbath rest to my heart and my home.
May God’s image in me be restored, and my imagination in God be re-storied.
May the gravity of material things be lightened, and the relativity of time slow down.
May I know the grace to embrace my own finite smallness in the arms of God’s infinite greatness.
May God’s Word feed me and his Spirit lead me into the week and into the life to come.
Amen
Sing: (Click the songs below)
Theology:
https://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/1.html
New Year Prayer:
A Prayer For The Beginning of a Year
BY WAYNE GARVEY
O God of Hope and Promise,
Though the turning of the year is simply
a human act of marking time,
this ritual affects us at the core.
We are stirred with a longing for
freshness and change.
“New Year’s resolutions” churn
through our minds, and all our intentions swell with hope.
We surrender this desire for growth and change to you.
Only you can direct this energy into that which glorifies you.
Only you can keep us in focus,
can keep us energized,
when the enthusiasm of the
new year begins to wane.
On this fresh first day, we are hopeful,
but we realize that we cannot fill this year
with meaning and purpose on our own.
We must have you.
For we know that life is about to happen.
The newness will fade and our hours and days
will be strewn once again with disappointment,
pain, grief, and tears, even amid
moments of blessing and thanksgiving.
Remind us that all our days, the good and the hard,
are within your view, and that your good will
and immense love are ever turned toward us.
Lord, keep that in the forefront of all
my thinking and planning.
I seek you in this new dawning.
Help me to make Jesus the compass of my hours,
to take Him into my plan for each day.
Teach me that, even when I fail spectacularly,
you are there to forgive,
and to move me onward to the next step.
Lord, raise me up, not to prominence,
but to that place of utter trust,
total dependence,
and humble surrender,
knowing that you are Emmanuel still,
and that you will not forsake me.
Therefore I go into this year with confidence,
and I will go out in joy,
praising you,
my Lord and my God.
Amen.
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