Devotions - 5th of the month

Great and glorious Lord, Creator of all and Master of the Universe, grant to each of us who honour You as Lord to turn to You each day to be forgiven for our sin, and therefore live our lives as people who are forgiven and free.  Draw us daily to this saving, healing and redeeming grace, we pray.  AMEN

Prayer ideas

Find a time and a place to be silent, and submit yourself to God and to His plans for your future

On-going prayers

• Pray for young people in church   Pray that God will use the young people in your church as a witness to others in the neighbourhood
• Pray for those who work in the sweatshops of Asia making the goods we buy
• Give thanks to God for His compassion and healing power

Do you have to be a gardener to appreciate a garden?

Do you have to be an astronaut to see the depths of space?

Do you have to be a parent to understand a child?

Do you have to be a lover to experience passion?

The Lord has made us each to reach beyond ourselves,

To feel what others feel, to see what others see.

Our spirit is enlivened with this empathy which reaches out

Beyond ourselves to receives the touch of others.

We are like this because God Himself is like this too;

It is His very nature to reach beyond His goodness

And touch our fallen world, to offer His forgiveness,

To receive our cry of help, and save us, though He need not.

Out of empathy, He longs to complete His plan and save us;

For He loves us, and in His good time, He will, because He can.

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