Daily Scripture:‘When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.’ (Acts 4:31)Daily Reflection: These words of scripture are from the Acts of the Apostles; the account, by Luke, of the great acts the Apostles did after Jesus had returned to his Father. Ordinary men who did extraordinary things. Ordinary men, but men of extraordinary faith because of what they had witnessed in living with Jesus for three years. Here they put what they have seen Jesus do and what they had learnt into practice: they pray. And as they pray they are filled with the Holy Spirit. Being filled with the Holy Spirit they then speak boldly from the word of God.All the incredible things they did started from prayer. We can all do that! When you pray today, may you be filled with the Holy Spirit….and do great acts for God today.Revd David
Daily Scripture‘For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem.’ (Psalm 130 v7)Daily Reflection There is no one in the world who could ever love you as much as Jesus does. His love is “steadfast” - it doesn’t lessen if you behave badly, it doesn’t increase the more good things you do – because He couldn’t love you any more than He does right now, right at this moment of you reading this! There are no rules and regulations in the Christian faith that you have to follow to make God love you. He loves you just as you are. He is the only one with the power to redeem lives, to bring good out of bad, and to make things right. Vicki Young
Daily Scripture:8 Let my mouth be full of your praise and your glory all the day long.14 As for me I will hope continually and will praise you more and more.(Psalm 71:8, 14)Daily Reflection: Could we, like the psalmist, speak these words with sincerity? To begin to do so we first of all need to acknowledge God’s existence. Having acknowledged Him, we need to realise all that He has done for us. Having realised all He has done, we need to remember him in our daily lives – every day not just on Sundays! When we remember Him, then we remember to praise Him. But this “hope” that the psalmist speaks of is not “finger crossed hope”; it is a surety that God is there; that He is in control. Hope in Him helps us keep going. It helps us keep on serving Him; keep on praising Him.May my mouth be full of praise for God this day.Revd David
Daily ScriptureJesus said ‘It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles’. (Matthew 15.10-11) Daily Reflection:‘You are what you eat’. In our diet conscious times we are all familiar with this saying. We are much more likely than our forebears to be counting calories, watching our cholesterol, supplementing our diet with extra vitamins and minerals and listening to often contradictory advice about what not to eat.Jesus was accused by the religious leaders of failing to observe the strict dietary requirements of Jewish law. Far more important than what we eat, says Jesus, is the purity of our hearts, because that will be expressed in our words and in our actions. So much trouble and distress comes from thoughtless, malicious or unkind speech. ‘Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips’. Ps141.3Revd Rosemary
