‘And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.’ EPHESIANS 6:18
Jesus, I pray for my brothers and sisters in Christ – especially those who are being persecuted.
Another way that Christians have sought to pray continually is to practise the presence of God throughout their day.…
more42 Jesus called them together and said, ‘You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 43 …
more‘Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: rejoice!’ PHILIPPIANS 4:4
Holy Spirit, remind me in every circumstance today, whether difficult or pleasant, to rejoice in the Lord.Rejoice in the Lord! In Paul’s world and culture, rejoicing would have meant public celebration. The people of Ephesus, Philippi, and Corinth used to organise great festivals and games to celebrate their gods…
more‘You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.’ DEUTERONOMY 8:17-18
Give Thanks in All Circumstances
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Lord, I thank you for all your provision and the work you give me to do.…‘But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”
‘I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who hum ble themselves will be exalted.’ LUKE 18:13-14‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ (Repeat this…
more8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.…
more39 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. 40 On reaching the place, he said to them, ‘Pray that you will not fall into temptation.’ 41…
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28 ‘The elder brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. …
more‘No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Matthew 6:24
Richard Rohr challenges the ways we allow personal possessions and national boundaries to define us:
Jesus primarily talked about the kingdom of God as his defining worldview. Yet, the vast majority of Christians in history have identified with their own…
more‘But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.’ MATTHEW 6:6
Father God, you invite me to spend time with you. I accept!
‘The Christian spiritual journey is responding to God’s invitation to personal encounter in love. Prayer is our response. Prayer is the place of encounter. Growth…
moreThe land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers. Leviticus 25:23
Biblical scholar Ched Myers writes of the prominence of immigrants in the Scriptures.
Torah and the Prophets warned Israel not to discriminate against economic or political refugees, since in YHWH’s eyes even the chosen people were “but aliens and tenants” (Leviticus 25:23). Instead, they were to treat the “sojourners in your midst” with dignity and justice (…
moreBut godliness with contentment is great gain. (1 Timothy 6:6)
Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss, inevitable for us all, and yet somehow for me and everyone I know,…
moreRejoice Always 1 Thessalonians 5:16
‘Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.’ PSALMS 100:1-2
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3).The injunction to rejoice cannot be interpreted as a general exhortation to Christians to ‘be happy at…
moreJesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. The devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.’
Jesus answered, ‘It is written: “Man shall not live on bread alone.”’ LUKE 4:1–4…
moreDo not press me to leave you
or to turn back from following you!
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people,
and your God my God.
Where you die, I will die—
there will I be buried.
(Ruth 1:16–17)Theologian Julia Lambert Fogg presents a biblical story of intergenerational immigration:
Ruth is the story of a mother and a daughter-in-law who cross…
more‘Save me, O God,
for the waters have come up to my neck.
I will praise God’s name in song
and glorify him with thanksgiving.’ PSALM 69:1, 30
Lord, help me to be realistic about the difficulties I face and be determined to focus on your love, power, and faithfulness.
Sometimes we have to push through to joy in the Lord. We often see this…
more- https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-03-14-behold-the-man-r25 1One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’ 2 He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: ‘“Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread. 4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins… more
He prayed to the Lord, ‘Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. (Jonah 4:2)
There are many things which are true: I could have been more patient, spent more time with my…
more38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She…
more‘About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.’ ACTS 16:25–26
Pray: Father, I don’t claim to understand the link between worship and freedom, but I thank you for Paul’s prison doors opening…
more‘Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.’ PSALM 100:4
Lord, I have so much to be grateful for… (list at least ten!)Joy and gratitude are linked. Researcher Brené Brown found, without exception, that every person she interviewed who described living a joyful life…
moreDeep within them I will plant my law, writing it on their hearts. Then I will be their God and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33).
Richard Rohr presents the journey of the prophets as one that ends in trusting God’s unconditional love and grace. He uses the prophet Jeremiah as an example:
The first covenant between YHWH and Israel appeared to be bilateral: “If you obey my voice and hold fast to my covenant, you of all the nations shall be my very own” (…
more“From God’s fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” John 1:16
Richard Rohr insists that grace is the essence of who God is.
The goodness of God fills all the gaps of the universe, without discrimination or preference. God is the gratuity of absolutely everything. The space in between everything is not space at all but Spirit. God is the “goodness glue” that holds the dark and light of things together, the free energy that carries all death…
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to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and…‘You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.’ JOHN 15:14–15
Lord, I long for true friendship with you. Help me to hear your voice and obey your commands.
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