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Celtic Morning Prayers for Friday 27th May...
Psalm 16:3
As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.
Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another.
James 3:1
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Today’s Meditation
The songs of prayer lodge in our mouths.
Let us sing through the snow.
At the dinner table.
On the rooftop where we dance.
May these sounds heal our ears
and those distant ears that hear.
The following excerpts are taken from the Thy Kingdom Come Journal
“…Beginning on Ascension Day until Pentecost Sunday, Christians around the globe, from all denominations, are invited to hold as a focus for their prayers a desire for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit – upon them, their friends and the church. The Holy Spirit is God's promised presence with us, enabling us to be witnesses ourselves of the heavenly Father's revolutionary love for us in Christ first-hand, and then be witnesses to Jesus to the world.
The prayer is simply,
"Come Holy Spirit"
And the promise is sure:
“…’So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 11 Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish? 12 Or if the child asks for an egg, will give a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!’…” [Luke 11:9-13]
These are days set aside for asking, searching, and knocking for the gift of the Holy Spirit. This will be done by focussing each day’s prayer on one of the images of the Holy Spirit from the Bible: Power, Breath, Fire... Each reflection will follow the same pattern: Enter, as we reflect on the image of the Holy Spirit; Hear, as we read God’s word; Respond, as we consider what this means for us; and pray as we engage with God.
The reflection today is
‘Breath’.
Let us pray…
”…Jesus says, ‘For everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.’ I invite you now to join with me in knocking on that door in confidence that God
will hear our call. And we pray this, not merely for ourselves, but for five friends, neighbours, colleagues or family members for whom it is our greatest hope and desire that they themselves my hear the call of Jesus and join us along the Way.
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
[St Augustine of Hippo]
Enter
On an average day we take 20,000 breaths. In this moment be aware of your breath. Thank God for it.
Hear
21 Jesus said to them again, 'Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.' 22 When He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.' [ John 20:21-22]
In the story of the day of resurrection we notice how many echoes there are of our beginnings – or, literally, our Genesis. It's on the first day, in a garden, and now when Jesus meets His disciples, He performs a parallel action to that of the Lord God in Genesis 2 who 'formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being'.
This is not a return to the past – but an anticipation of the future. The breath of the resurrected one is the Holy Spirit – the life of God's existence. It is air which can only be ours because Jesus breathes on us.
Respond
As you breathe in and out five times name your five before the Lord.
Pray
‘Come Holy Spirit ... breathe Your breath into me that I may be Your new creation, and breathe into life those I hold before You.'
Let us bring our prayers together in the words Jesus taught us…
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Peace be with you friends <><
Caroline :)
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