Online Ministry 0128 - 0203 2019

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

Gracious God, we come to you with day, seeking your guidance and strength. Help us to understand that it is your love that will support and sustain our efforts. Give us the courage to place our trust in your abiding presence. AMEN

  

Psalm 84

84:1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!

84:2 My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

84:3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.

84:4 Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise. Selah

84:5 Happy are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

84:6 As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.

84:7 They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

84:8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

84:9 Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed.

84:10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.

84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly.

84:12 O LORD of hosts, happy is everyone who trusts in you.

  

DAILY READINGS

Monday, January 28, 2019: Psalm 119:89-96; Jeremiah 36:1-10; 1 Corinthians 14:1-12

Tuesday, January 29, 2019: Psalm 119:89-96; Jeremiah 36:11-26; 2 Corinthians 7:2-12

Wednesday, January 30, 2019: Psalm 119:89-96; Jeremiah 36:27-32; Luke 4:38-44

Thursday, January 31, 2019: Psalm 71:1-6; 2 Chronicles 34:1-7; Acts 10:44-48

Friday, February 1, 2019: Psalm 71:1-6; 2 Chronicles 35:20-27; Acts 19:1-10

Saturday, February 2, 2019: Psalm 71:1-6; 2 Chronicles 36:11-21; John 1:43-51

Sunday, February 3, 2019: Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

  

ABUNDANT HEALTH

Catching On

  

The godly give good advice to their friends. Proverbs 12:26 (NLT)

Health habits are contagious. If you spend time with people who exercise and eat healthy, you are more likely to exercise and eat in a healthful way. We are more likely to be overweight if our friends are. At the same time, we are more likely to exercise and eat healthy food, to not smoke or overeat, if our friends also practice healthy habits.

—Dr. Daniel Amen

 

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

God of Limitless Love: We sing praise to you from whom all blessings flow, and we give our gifts and go our way. We know we have taken baby steps toward the life you’ve called us to live. May we grow in our giving, but even more in our loving as Jesus taught us. Amen.