My Daily Prayers and Readings for 02/04/2010
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Abba Father, Lord Jesus, in the Spirit, one God the Abba Father, Christ Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit.
I bring You my weakness seeking Your peace, strength and wisdom; peace that comes from the lessons You are teaching me about myself, my walk and how to accept, forgive and love all that I cannot change under the sun. Strength so that when my welcome or my message is no longer wanted I will continue to be able to act and ‘leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them’. Wisdom and discernment to know when is that time and that I have served You as best I can!
Lord God, I started a journey several years ago with these words as my guide, trusting that despite my anger and lack of planning or preparation I needed to act and put my trust in You. Looking back I see that according to the ways under the sun I may have acted foolishly or irresponsibly, but still feeling I needed to protect my heart and put my trust completely in You. So while those walking under the sun may question and judge me according to the only ways the know under the sun, I keep coming to You asking and praying that we will finish what we started and let Your word and teachings flow through me to light the way for them to find and follow the Son as I have and do.
In Jesus name I ask and pray, that You bless me and mine for fulfillment of Your will and that You create in me a clean heart, renew a right spirit within me, for one walk; in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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February – “Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always.” Psalm 105:4
Today – BRING ME YOUR WEAKNESS, and receive My Peace. Accept yourself and your circumstances just as they are, remembering that I am sovereign over everything. Do not wear yourself out with analyzing and planning. Instead, let thankfulness and trust be your guides through this day; they will keep you close to Me. As you live in the radiance of My Presence, My Peace shines upon you. You will cease to notice how weak or strong you feel, because you will be focusing on Me. The best way to get through this day is step by step with Me. Continue this intimate journey, trusting that the path you are following is headed for heaven.
PSALM 29:11; NUMBERS 6:24-26; PSALM 13:5
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Reading I
Kgs 2:1-4, 10-12
I am going the way of all flesh.
Take courage and be a man.
A reading from the first Book of
When the time of David’s death drew near,
he gave these instructions to his son Solomon:
“I am going the way of all flesh.
Take courage and be a man.
Keep the mandate of the Lord, your God, following his ways
and observing his statutes, commands, ordinances, and decrees
as they are written in the law of Moses,
that you may succeed in whatever you do,
wherever you turn, and the Lord may fulfill
the promise he made on my behalf when he said,
‘If your sons so conduct themselves
that they remain faithful to me with their whole heart
and with their whole soul,
you shall always have someone of your line
on the throne of Israel.’”
David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years:
he reigned seven years in Hebron
and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
Solomon was seated on the throne of his father David,
with his sovereignty firmly established.
Responsorial Psalm
1 Chronicles 29:10, 11ab, 11d-12a, 12bcd
R. (12b) Lord, you are exalted over all.
“Blessed may you be, O LORD,
God of Israel our father,
from eternity to eternity.”
R. Lord, you are exalted over all.
“Yours, O LORD, are grandeur and power,
majesty, splendor, and glory.”
R. Lord, you are exalted over all.
“LORD, you are exalted over all.
Yours, O Lord, is the sovereignty;
you are exalted as head over all.
Riches and honor are from you.”
R. Lord, you are exalted over all.
“In your hand are power and might;
it is yours to give grandeur and strength to all.”
R. Lord, you are exalted over all.
Gospel
Mk 6:7-13
Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two
and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick
–no food, no sack, no money in their belts.
They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic.
He said to them,
“Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave from there.
Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you,
leave there and shake the dust off your feet
in testimony against them.”
So they went off and preached repentance.
The Twelve drove out many demons,
and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
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The soul that journey’s to God, but doesn’t shake off it’s cares and quiet it’s appetites, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill. — St. John of the Cross
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