Tag: Prayer for Today

Tuesday 1st April 2025

“Soon I will die, going the way of everything on earth. Deep in your hearts you know that every promise of the Lord your God has come true. Not a single one has failed! 15 But as surely as the Lord your God has given you the good things he promised, he will also bring disaster on you if you disobey him. He will completely destroy you from this good land he has given you. 16 If you break the covenant of the Lord your God by worshiping and serving other gods, his anger will burn against you, and you will quickly vanish from the good land he has given you.”
Joshua 23:14-16 NLT

“But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 NLT

Lord God,

It is good, no it is absolutely amazing, to know Your forgiveness and provision and promises and everlasting love. It is great, no it is amazing to know that we have a present and a future in Your divine care. For those times when it is worrying, scary or stressful we have You.

Joshua reminds the Children of Israel that God has to be true to Himself. They were chosen, as we are chosen in Jesus (John 15:16). He cannot give His blessings and forgiveness to those who do not follow Him and do not come to Him for His righteous robes. These were given to us by Jesus (Isaiah 61:10). Jesus warns us what will happen to the person not dressed correctly trying to join the wedding feast in heaven (Matthew 23:12-13). He said throw him out into darkness. A place where there is no light of God at all.

We cannot earn Your love, be good enough for Your love, do enough good deeds to pass the goodness test. We just have to come and accept Your love and forgiveness at the cross. Where it is a free gift (Romans 6:23). And meet Jesus and accept his robe of righteousness. We will never vanish from Your Kingdom God, even death cannot keep us. You, God keep all the promises to us You made in Jesus. So we will serve You Lord and I pray that our family one day, with Your help, will do too Lord..

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Worship Tuesday 1st April 2025
Country style, and a song which we perhaps do not sing as often today – as it may not be understood as easily today? But I love it.

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you washed in the blood,
In the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless?
Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin,
And be washed in the blood of the Lamb;
There’s a fountain flowing for the soul unclean,
O be washed in the blood of the Lamb!

Chorus

Some glad morning when this life is over
I’ll fly away
To a home on God’s celestial shore
I’ll fly away

I’ll fly away, oh, Glory, I’ll fly away
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by
I’ll fly away

Musical Interlude

Just a few more weary days and then
I’ll fly away
To a land where joy shall never end
I’ll fly away

Chorus

Lyrics:
Are You washed? E A Hoffman
I’ll fly way. Albert Brumley

Monday 31st March 2025

“So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the Lord through Moses. 10 When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan. 11 And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side, 12 the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them. 13 So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 14 With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.” Joshua 22:9-14 NIV

God of Reconciliation,

The people are moving into the land allotted to them. But the Reubenites, Gadites and half tribe of Manasseh are going back to the land they had taken along the way and left their families in. And they had not gone far before there was a huge misunderstanding. Involving everyone. It looked like they were building an altar to another God already! The other tribes gathered for war but . . . but first they send a delegation. To ask and hear the answer. Talking explained the was build for a good reason.

Lord the outside world looks to the church to set and example of good living and charity and generosity and love for their community. Help us to understand each other and when we don’t – to talk and reconcile and show the world a united front. Help us talk out our differences and make peace even where we cannot fully agree. We do not gather in a courtroom but around the cross where You, risen Lord remind us who is the True Word and the Prince of Peace and forgiveness. Keep us reconciled to You and help us keep peace with each other. Especially where we have to keep working at it.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Worship Monday 31st March 2025


Come and see, come and see
Come and see the King of love
See the purple robe and crown of thorns he wears
Soldiers mock, rulers sneer
As he lifts the cruel cross
Lone and friendless now he climbs towards the hill

We worship at your feet
Where wrath and mercy meet
And a guilty world is washed
By love’s pure stream
For us he was made sin
Oh, help me take it in
Deep wounds of love cry out ‘Father, forgive’
I worship, I worship
The Lamb who was slain.

Come and weep, come and mourn
For your sin that pierced him there
So much deeper than the wounds of thorn and nail
All our pride, all our greed
All our fallenness and shame
And the Lord has laid the punishment on him

Man of heaven, born to earth
To restore us to your heaven
Here we bow in awe beneath
Your searching eyes
From your tears comes our joy
From your death our life shall spring
By your resurrection power we shall rise

Lyrics: Graham Kendrick



Sunday 30th March 2025

“When Joshua had grown old, the Lord said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over. 2 “This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites, 3 from the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvites 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites; 5 the area of Byblos; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath. 6 “As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you, 7 and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”” Joshua 13:1-7 NIV

Lord of all,

We grow older and the battle we face may change. But You tell us, as You told Joshua and the children of Israel, that they needed to battle on. And if they did not do so, their enemy would always be a thorn in their side.

Today in Jesus we still battle but it is the fight of faith. The war of Your love Lord is continuing right around the world even is some terrible situations. But we the church no longer go out to defeat our enemies. We go out to win them for Jesus and to defeat the enemy who keeps them captive. Paul in his letter to Timothy tells him, “the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.”

Help us to be kind, pray that those not yet in Faith will come to a knowledge of Jesus and be set free. Revive the intercessors and all of us who pray to battle without ceasing for souls to be saved.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Worship Sunday 30th March 2025
Sometimes we just need to sing loud the praises of our God and call on Him who saved us.

O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer’s praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of His grace.

Jesus! the name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
’Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
’Tis life, and health, and peace.

He speaks — and, listening to his voice,
new life the dead receive,
the mournful broken hearts rejoice,
the humble poor believe.

Hear him, you deaf! his praise, you dumb
your loosened tongues employ;
you blind, now see your saviour come,
and leap, you lame, for joy!

My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad,
The honors of Thy name.

Lyrics: Charles Wesley