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Bearing Each Others’ Burdens

09/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 6:1-5
Prayer: Dear Father, lifter of our heavy loads, Fill my heart with love for my brothers and sisters in Christ. If someone is overtaken in some misdeed, help me to assist in restoring that person, in a spirit of gentleness. Let me watch out for myself, lest I also be tempted. Help all of us to bear one another's overloads, and so fulfil the law of Christ. But help us not to deceive ourselves, thinking we are something when we are really nothing. Let each one of us test our ..

The Fruit of the Spirit

08/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 5:22-26
Prayer: Dear Father, grower of spiritual fruit,Let the fruit of the Spirit blossom, mature, and ripen in my life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these. Let me possess them!Since I belong to Christ, I have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Let me live by the Spirit. Let me walk by the Spirit!Let me show no self-conceit, give no provocation, have no envy toward anyone else. ..

The Deeds of the Flesh

07/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 5:19-21
Prayer: Dear Father, opposer of all that is evil,Help me to stay away from those things which are clearly works of the flesh: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like.Help me heed your warning, given again and again, that people who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. In the name of Jesus I ask you to perfect us, whatever that m..

The Flesh Versus the Spirit

06/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 5:16-18
Prayer: Dear Father, giver of your Spirit, Help me to walk by the Spirit and not gratify the desires of my flesh. For the desires of my flesh are opposed to the desires of my spirit and to the desires of your Spirit for me. These things set up an opposition within me to keep me from doing what I want. But thank you for letting me know that if I live by the Spirit I do something different than just live by the rules of the law, that in fact I am not under law.In the name of ..

Freedom Is No Excuse for Sin

05/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 5:13-15
Prayer: Dear Father, guardian of the free, May we never use freedom as a pretext for evil or as an excuse for indulging sinful desires. Rather, grant that we, out of love, will make ourselves servants to one another. For the Lord has taught us that the whole law is fulfilled in the one saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Keep us from “biting” and “devouring” one another, lest we be consumed by one another. Encourage and enable me and all my brothers and..

Christ, the Stumbling Block

04/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 5:7-12
Prayer: Dear Father, guarantor of freedom, Help me to run well! Help me not to be hindered from obeying the truth! Don't let me be persuaded by a viewpoint that is not from you, the God who called us to freedom in Jesus! A little leaven leavens the whole lump! Help me keep out even a pinch of “slavery” type thinking and religiosity that worships human will. For to preach circumcision (law-keeping as a means of justification), is to remove the stumbling block of the cros..

Prayer for the Week

03/07/2016 0 Comment

O God,
you have taught us to keep all your commandments
by loving you and our neighbor:
Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit,
that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart,
and united to one another with pure affection;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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Living in Freedom

03/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 5:1-6
Prayer: Dear Father, guarantor of freedom, Christ died to set all people free – if they will accept it! As for me, Father, I accept it and intend to live by it. Help me always to stand fast and never submit to a yoke of slavery! Help me to live in freedom from sin and to help other people see that to espouse rule-keeping is a form of slavery, a falling away from the grace of Christ. For it is through the Spirit, by faith, our trust in you, that we wait for the hope of righteou..

Children of Promise

02/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 4:8-5:1
Prayer: Dear Father, Keep us from turning back to any weak and beggarly things. Help us to live in the glorious freedom brought by the Son of God. Let Christ be born in our souls, even if through great travail. Let him be the reality of our lives, hour by hour and day by day.Let us live as children of the free woman, the new Jerusalem which is above, not as children of the bondwoman. Make us the children of promise. Since it was for freedom that Christ set us free, let us li..

Adopted

01/07/2016 0 Comment

Passage: Galatians 4:1-7
Prayer: Dear Father, Thank you for delivering us from slavery and immaturity. Thank you for sending Jesus Christ at just the right time, in just the right way, that he might redeem those under the law, and that we might all receive the adoption as sons. Thank you for sending the Spirit of your Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father,” so that we are no longer slaves but sons.In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.