February 2015
Sunday
1 February
This afternoon sees the first Messy
Church
of 2015. Please pray that many families will come along and that
parents/carers and children alike will experience God’s love for
them and want to be part of His family.
Monday
2 February
This morning the Kirk Session and Congregational Board are meeting
representatives of Lothian Presbytery as part of the Place
for Hope
process. Please pray for insight and wisdom and for God’s grace to
guide everyone concerned.
Tuesday
3 February
The Christian charity World
Vision
asks us to pray for secondary-school children
in deprived communities in Zimbabwe;
particularly for Belinda
and Tirivangani
(who are receiving medication to control HIV/AIDS) and for Takwana
(who has not yet been able to access medical help).
Wednesday
4 February
Recent
floods
in Malawi and Mozambique
have led to scores of deaths (among them 25 schoolchildren), and many
thousands have been made homeless. A third of the area of Malawi has
been declared a disaster zone. Please pray that resources will be
offered from abroad, as the Malawian government has said it cannot
cope on its own.
Thursday
5 February
Pray for the residents in Aaron
House,
that they will be well looked after and feel wanted. And for the
staff, that they will be happy in their work and have the energy they
need to do it well.
Friday
6 February
Please pray for the U.K.
Government,
and the Members
of the Westminster parliament,
including our
local MP, David Hamilton,
that in everything they are responsible for they will act with wisdom
and fairness.
Saturday
7 February
Please pray for the prayer
request uplift
today in Armine
Place, Lomond Vale, Lawers Square, Vorlich Crescent and Ledi Terrace
(held over from last week). Pray that the people we make contact with
will know that God loves and cares for them.
Sunday
8 February
Last month two suicide bombings left over 60 people dead in
Nigeria,
and many hundreds were reportedly killed when Boko
Haram
captured the town of Baga. Hundreds of thousands of people are in
deadly danger in the parts of Iraq
and Syria
controlled by ‘Islamic State’. Please pray that these killings
will come to an end.
Monday 9 February
Where today your church is in danger - protect it.
Where today you church is too comfortable - disturb it.
Where today your church stands with the poor - affirm it;
Where today your church hides behind the rich - confront it.
Where today your church proclaims its risen Lord –
fill it with your love
[Church of Scotland world Mission, September 2014] |
Tuesday 10 February
Please pray for the employees of the Citylink delivery firm, which
recently went into liquidation, as well as the hundreds of oil workers
(both onshore & offshore) thought to be in danger of being made
unemployed in the near future.
Wednesday 11 February
Please pray for the residents of Heinsberg House, that they will be
able to enjoy their continuing independence and also benefit from the
community facilities offered there if they want to.
Thursday 12 February
Pray for St Mungo’s Kirk Session and Congregational Board, who
are meeting this evening. Ask God to give them His wisdom and insight
in all their discussions.
Friday 13 February
Our Mission Partner in Bangladesh, Pat Jamison, has asked for prayer
that peace and stability will be restored there. Bus services have
recently been a focus for political violence: in the last 3 weeks, 30
people have been killed, approximately 900 people injured and 321
vehicles torched many with staff or passengers on board.
Saturday 14 February
Please pray for the healing on the streets initiative in Penicuik,
taking place this morning (and on the second and fourth Saturdays of
each month). Pray that the Lord’s healing power will be
experienced, and that everyone involved will know that He loves and
cares for them.
Sunday 15 February
Thank God that the recent elections in Sri Lanka (which was engulfed in
civil war a number of years ago) were peaceful and that all the parties
have accepted the outcome. Pray that this will be the beginning of a
time of peace, reconciliation and justice for both the majority
Sinhalese and the minority Tamil populations.
Monday 16 February
Please pray for all the pupils and staff at Cuiken Primary School, that
the staff will have the energy, commitment and wisdom they need and
that each pupil will feel part of the community and be able to develop
to their maximum potential.
Tuesday 17 February
Please pray for our friends in the South Kirk and Howgate Church, and
for their Minister, Ian Cathcart, asking God to give them all the
vision, love and energy they need to help build His Kingdom in our area.
Wednesday 18 February
Let’s thank God today for the Amity Foundation, an organisation
set up by Christian leaders in China in the 1980s to develop projects
in education, social service, blindness prevention, poverty
alleviation, health care, rural development, relief and rehabilitation.
And let’s pray that it will have the resources and freedom that
it needs to develop these very necessary programmes even further.
Thursday 19 February
May the love of God,
true, pure and freely given,
uphold us every moment,
so that love can flow through us
to the people around us
every day
AMEN
[Pray Now, 2014]
|
Friday 20 February
Thank God for the work done by the various food banks in Penicuik and
around the country. Let’s pray that we will organise ourselves in
such a way that food banks are no longer necessary, but also that in
the meantime they will all be fully resourced.
Saturday 21 February
Today let’s pray for Mojtaba and Vahid, Iranian Christians held
in jail for the last 3 years because they had attended house-church
meetings and shared the Gospel with their friends. Please pray for
their release, and also that the Holy Spirit will change the hearts of
those in power in Iran, so that sharing the Gospel and taking part in
house meetings are no longer regarded as crimes.
Sunday 22 February
Tomorrow evening is the first of three meetings of St Mungo’s
congregation. Hosted by the Church of Scotland’s Future Focus
team, they are an opportunity for us all to get together and explore
what kind of church God wants us to be and what He wants us
Monday
23 February
Please pray today for the people of Israel
and of the Palestinian territories.
The hatred felt by many people on both sides is so entrenched and the
situation so complex that even the best human efforts look unlikely
to lead to a just and lasting solution. Let’s ask God to overrule
our human inadequacies and bring that about.
Tuesday 24 February
God of the beginning and the end,
Alpha and Omega,
may you bless us as we travel from the old to the new;
may the words of Christ call us from old patterns to new ideas;
and may the Holy Spirit hold us
when we are afraid to leave what we know
to discover what we might become
AMEN
[Pray Now, 2014]
|
Wednesday 25 February
Pray for the work done by relief and development agencies such as
Christian Aid, Tearfund and SCIAF, as they try to combat Third World
poverty, encourage fairer international trade rules and cope with
sudden, large-scale emergencies.
Thursday 26 February
Please pray for our friends in the Sacred Heart Church and for their
recently arrived Priest, Tadeusz Majcher, asking God to give them all
the vision, love and energy they need to help build His Kingdom in our
area.
Friday 27 February Pray for
Christians in Uzbekistan, where it is illegal simply to have Christian
literature in your home. Individual houses can be raided at any time.
Ask God to strengthen the people who are being persecuted in this way,
and to change the mind of the authorities, so that they no longer
regard Christians as a danger to the state.
Saturday 28 February
The Leprosy Mission is running special surgery camps in Bangladesh in
March. They ask us to pray that these camps will reach many people with
life-changing surgery who would otherwise never have a chance to
receive it.
Please
use as many of these suggestions as you usefully can, and please let me
know if there is anyone or anything you would like to see included in
future months.
(billandmags@talktalk.net or 672347)
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