Day 6: by Juno Smalley
I trust this month will provide you with the space you need to pray for your friends, family, and church. I know I speak for the staff on how appreciative we are that you are praying for New Life's ministry. God is doing something in and through all of us, and together, we look forward to 2024. Your prayers help us all to experience Hope - Hope that comes from Jesus.
Friday's Song
Today's song reminds us that God didn't create the world and let us go on our own. Rather, something happened not just in a stable but in our world when Jesus was born. God took the form of a man to walk among us to help us get our stuff together so we could be united with God for eternity. This song reminds us that as God moved in the past, God is still at work and moving in our hearts now, and that gives us hope.
We are grateful that God has given us the passions and gifts as we work with God, and God uses us all to make an eternal difference in the hearts of many people. Click here and be reminded that God is on the move in your heart and in the heart of your family and friends.
We are grateful that God has given us the passions and gifts as we work with God, and God uses us all to make an eternal difference in the hearts of many people. Click here and be reminded that God is on the move in your heart and in the heart of your family and friends.
Friday's Prayer
Lord, As we step closer to Christmas, help us all to intentionally slow our pace down so we can experience an unexpected presence of your spirit in our lives and in the life of our church. May we be in tune with your heart to feel the nudges from you and to invite those who are looking for Hope, Joy, Peace, and Love for Christmas to New Life. May we also invite others to join us as we search for and celebrate you. May this be a lifelong prayer for us all:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offense, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is an error, let me bring the truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much to be consoled
as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
It is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.
AMEN
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offense, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is an error, let me bring the truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much to be consoled
as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
It is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.
AMEN
Posted in Advent Devotional 2022