Daily Dose For August 22

Memory Verse  O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! Psalms 8:1 NASB

1 Chronicles 23,24 Psalms 48

"How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole. With love and understanding - and with small acts of compassion. With bravery. With unwavering faith," Jill Biden

Lord, expose the Jezebels in our land and cast them down. Those who profane Your Name and harm the Innocent - may they be judged and sentenced. We cry out to You for a cleansing of our land. Save sinners and revive Your people, for we desperately desire your glory. (https://twitter.com/KayeLynnie)

Daily Dose For August 21

Memory Verse  O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! Psalms 8:1 NASB

Psalms 47

"There was a time when the church was very powerful. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being ‘disturbers of the peace’ and ‘outside agitators.’ But they went on with the conviction that they were ‘a colony of heaven,’ and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be ‘astronomically intimidated.’ They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Lord God, help us to live out your gospel in the world. We pray for those who do not know your love, that they would be wooed by your goodness and seduced by your beauty. Form us into a family that runs deeper than biology or nationality or ethnicity, a family that is born again in you. May we be creators of holy mischief and agitators of comfort . . . -people who do not accept the world as it is but insist on its becoming what you want it to be. Let us groan as in the pains of childbirth for your kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven. Help us to be midwives of that kingdom. Amen. (commonprayer.net)

Daily Dose For August 20

 Memory Verse  O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! Psalms 8:1 NASB

1 Chronicles 21-22   Psalms 46

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Matthew 17:20

In the little things you will find me,

In the cleaning and the washing,

In the shopping and the gardening,

In a kind word or simple favour,

In a conversation and in laughter. 

In these little things you will find me. (A Celtic Blessing for Little Things, by Iain Tweedale. )

Daily Dose For August 19

Memory Verse  O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! Psalms 8:1 NASB

1 Chronicles 19-20   Psalms 45

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion." Anatoli Boukreev.

Blessed are you,

God of growth and discovery;

yours is the inspiration

that has altered and changed our lives;

yours is the power that has brought us

to new dangers and opportunities. 

Set us, your new creation,

to walk through this new world,

watching and learning,

loving and trusting,

until your kingdom comes.

Amen.  (https://anglicanprayerbook.nz/456.html)

Daily Dose For August 18

Memory Verse  O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! Psalms 8:1 NASB

1 Chronicles 17-18   Psalms 44

“The church’s task is not simply to bind the wounds of the victim beneath the wheel, but also to put a spoke in the wheel itself.”  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Lord, use us to heal the broken systems. Equip us with wisdom and foresight. May our lives interrupt injustice with your grace. Amen. (Commonprayer.net)

Daily Dose For August 17

Memory Verse  O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! Psalms 8:1 NASB

1 Chronicles 15-16   Psalms 43

I would rather, be plummeting towards heresy, trusting in God's love, than trusting in my own moral excellence. REM

God, have mercy on me a sinner! (REM)

Daily Dose For August 16

Memory Verse  O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! Psalms 8:1 NASB

1 Chronicles 13-14 Psalms 42

Random noise could never produce a Bach cantata.  Random letters floating in an ocean of alphabet soup will never spell out a chapter from Moby Dick.  When we hear the music, we know there was a composer.  When we read coherent writing, we know there was an author.  How much more does this principle apply to the detailed information contained in the DNA of every living creature?   John MacArthur The Battle for the Beginning, 2001, P. 137.

Lord, you came as a child to lead us toward your kingdom. We thank you for the dreams of the young. Fill us with wonder and give us a childlike audacity, even in the face of trials and persecution, to believe in another world despite the evidence around us, and to watch the evidence change. Amen. (commonprayer.net)