Inspiration - 2 Peter 1:16-2:3

Our Father
Our trust is not based on the testimony of one person
But on the eye-witness accounts of many:
They heard your voice speak
They saw your Son live
And they heard the testimony of the prophets.
May we trust them!
Hear the Scriptures!
Listen to your voice!
Ever wary of false teachers and heresies!
Amen

Extraordinary Jesus - John 5:31-47

Father, you have caused all Scripture to be written that we may know and love Jesus.
Help us to read the Scriptures:
·       to hear them,
·       to scrutinise them,
·       to trust them,
·       to absorb them
·       and to apply them,
So that we may receive and never let go of the eternal life which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen

A light and a lamp - Psalm 119:105-112 - #YearoftheBible1

Our loving heavenly Father
You have promised to keep us safe and to light our way in a world of dangers
You have promised to give us direction so that our lives might not be wasted
But we are deeply afflicted
The wicked have laid snares for us
And often we feel like we are lost.
We seek your word to us
We seek the safety of your rules
We seek to stay within your precepts
We seek the joy of your testimonies
And we incline our hearts to perform your statues forever
Amen

Lighthouse
Philippians 2:12-18 

Father, enable us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling,
Knowing that you work in us for your good pleasure.
Keep our mouths free from grumbling and questioning.
Make us to be blameless, innocent and without blemish.
As we remember that we are children of God,
Shining light into this dark world.
Keep us holding fast to the word of life.
Holding out the word of life.
Straining to the day of Christ
Rejoicing in our salvation.
Amen

 

What is the Bible? 2 Tim 3:15-17 & 2 Peter 1:19-21

Blessed Lord, you have breathed out your Word and caused all Holy Scripture to be written for our learning:

Grant that we may hear what you have spoken to us

• ·    listening carefully to what the scriptures say,
• ·    reading them with diligent and open minds,
• ·    marking them and learning them in order to know them better,
• ·    hiding them in our hearts,
• ·    And inwardly digesting them,

that we may embrace Christ, strive for obedient living,

And ever hold fast to the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ; 

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. 

Amen