Daily Share-a-Prayer w/e 21/12/2025
Derek Mill
Worship Leader, All Saints Church, Belton
Tuesday 16th December
Heavenly Father, I've read about an organisation called 'Hillsong' and heard a podcast about the decline and fall of the leadership and the structure of its work, and following this, certain people have said I should stop singing the songs under their banner
Some people have said they thought they were worshipping Jesus, but in fact they were worshipping an organisation. I sing songs which are copyrighted to Hillsong and I've never read or sang words that worship anyone or anything other than You, Jesus and the Holy Spirit
If I follow this advice to not sing these songs then I better stop singing songs written by members of the Church of England, or Catholics, or Baptists or Methodists, or any another denomination as everyone of them has had elements of corruption in them. In fact I better not sing any songs or hymns written by anyone as every one of them has been written by a sinful person; but by a sinful person who has met and knows the love of Jesus
Whether a song is by Matt Redman or Darlene Zschech, or King David's Psalms, is irrelevant; what matters is if the songs praises and worship You. Your Word gives me some guidance in another context: "' 'Teacher,' said John, 'we saw someone driving out demons in Your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.' 'Do not stop him,' Jesus said. 'For no one who does a miracle in My Name can in the next moment say anything bad about Me. Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in My Name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward' "
I am sure there are things wrong in every church, the Book of "Revelation" show this to be true. Help me to focus on You, no one else and nothing else when I worship. Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Amen
Songs for today:
When the music fades - Matt Redman
My Jesus my Saviour - Darlene Zschech
I the Lord of sea and sky - Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith
Praise God from whom all blessings flow - Dave Clifton and Andy Piercy
Monday 15th December
Heavenly Father, help me to remember: 'My Dad can fight your dad.' When David fought Goliath he knew he would win because he believed, 'My Dad can beat your dad.' As he approached Goliath, David declared: to the Philistine: “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied." He knew he would triumph because God, his Father, would fight for him
He knew the same as Moses knew. He knew the same as Elijah knew! Faced by Ahab and the prophets of Baal, Elijah challenged them and their God to consume a sacrifice, but of course nothing happened. Then having soaked the sacrifice three times in water Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command. Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that You, Lord, are God, and that You are turning their hearts back again.” Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. And then the prophets of Baal were all slaughtered
It is a very dangerous thing to stand against You, our Father in Heaven. And still today, You fight for us. You no longer slaughter prophets. Mostly the battle is now within us, so You fight against: "the sin that so easily entangles." You encourage us to: "run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith."
My Dad can beat any dad, because my God, Jesus, has beaten death and the grave: "If God is for us, who can be against us? ... No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." Lord, by Your Spirit, keep fighting for me, until You bring me home
Amen
Songs for today:
The battle belongs to the Lord
Battle belongs
Hymn of Heaven
all songs (usually with lyrics) and talks courtesy of YouTube
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