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Daily Share-a-Prayer w/e 26/10/2025
Derek Mill
Worship Leader, All Saints Church, Belton
Tuesday 21st October
Heavenly Father, I had an uninterrupted sleep last night thanks to the generosity of others not known to me. A 'Marie Curie' nurse sat with my wife overnight so I didn't have to respond to her calls. I know there are many people who find a good night's sleep difficult who will appreciate what a blessing it is. Just knowing I wasn't on call, that there was someone else taking responsibility, meant I wasn't on the alert all night. There must be many people who are constantly on the alert, mums and dads with young children, people caring for aged parents or sick loved ones initially spring to mind. It must be equally wonderful for them when someone else shares the burden
Thank You, Lord, for putting love and generosity into the hearts of people. Without such love there would not be such care or selfless giving. Your Word reminds us: "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God." Love comes from You; it is not something we have created, whether we know it or not, the love we have is from You!
The Bible puts it in the simplest terms: "God is love." And the Bible also tells us how You demonstrated Your love: "This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His One and Only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another". And loving one another is shown in all kinds of ways, including generous giving to charities that help people in all kinds of difficulties
Lord Jesus, You gave Your life for us, gave Your blood for us. Whether it is giving money to charity or giving blood, thank You for every generosity given today, it all stems from love, and all love flows from You. "All good gifts around us are sent from Heaven above; then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all His love." You are a gracious, generous God
Amen
Songs for today:
Goodness of God
God is love His the care
We plough the fields and scatter
Good and gracious
Monday 20th October
Heavenly Father, C S Lewis wrote a whole book called 'The Problem of Pain.' Given what a clever fella he was I don't suppose I'm going to get an answer about the problem of pain in the next few minutes. I know already my 'go-to' answer about this as I have prayed and spoken to people about it many times before: we are broken people living in a broken world
Jesus made this clear when he said: "In this world you will have trouble." He didn't specifically mention pain, but His statement covered all the bases, all kinds of trouble. Another part of my 'go-to' answer is the fact You gave us choice, and gives us choice today. Some of our pain is self-inflicted, but not all I am sure. It was self-inflicted by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and we sometimes inflict pain on ourselves today with poor decisions and wrong thoughts, words and deeds, which all have consequences
Thank You that in Your loving kindness You not only forgive us our wrongdoing, but paid the price for our sin on the cross. A third part of my 'go-to' answer is that all our prayers will be answered one day in Heaven when You will finally deal with the problem of pain, when You will wipe every tear from our eyes, "when there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain"
It seems that some pain is random, as Jesus said about You: "He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." I suppose I have most of my answer already. I still have a question as to why pain can go on for so long and why some people are healed and others aren’t. Again, my answer is already there I guess! Your Word referred to miracles as "signs and wonders." Each wonder is a sign of things to come. Pain will always be a problem until Jesus returns
Thank You that there are plenty of signs and wonders in life which affirm the Truth that there is a better life to come when pain will be no more. Help me Lord to hold on to this Hope, only found in Jesus and let Your Light shine
Amen
Songs for today:
There is a Hope
Power of Your love
Praise my soul the King of Heaven
There's a place where the streets shine
Let your Light shine
all songs (usually with lyrics) and talks courtesy of YouTube
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