Suggestion for Daily Use

Follow the ‘Daily Prayer’ at the side+++Suivez le ‘Prière Quotidienne’. Read the bible passages and then the meditation. Pray, tell God how you felt about the reading and share the concerns of your life with him. Maybe you will continue the habit after Lent. Lisez les passages bible et après la méditation. Priez, dites à Dieu que vous avez ressenti à propos de la lecture et de partager les préoccupations de votre vie avec lui. Peut-être que vous allez continuer l'habitude après le Carême. Daily Prayer Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. Luke 4.1-2 Now is the healing time decreed For sins of heart, of word or deed, When we in humble fear record The wrong that we have done the Lord. (Latin, before 12th century) Read: Read the Bible passage. Read the meditation Pray: Talk to God about what you have just read. Tell him your concerns - for yourself, your family, our church family, our world. Praise him. Pray the collect for the week – see next pages. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Prière Quotidienne Jésus, rempli de l'Esprit Saint, revint du Jourdain et le Saint-Esprit le conduisit dans le désert où il fut tenté par le diable durant quarante jours. Luc 4.1-2 Maintenant le temps de la guérison est décrété Pour les péchés du cœur, de la parole et des actes, Lorsque nous nous souvenons avec humilité Le mal que nous avons fait au Seigneur. Lire : Lisez le passage de la Bible. Lisez la méditation. Prier : Parlez avec le Seigneur de ce que vous avez lu. Parlez-lui de vos préoccupations pour vous-même, votre famille, notre famille de l’église, notre monde. Louez-le. Priez la collecte pour la semaine. Voyez les pages suivantes Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur ! Que tout qui est en moi bénisse son saint nom. Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur, et n’oublie aucun de ses bienfaits !

13 April 2011

Discipline 





Wednesday 13th April
     Jeremiah 22.20-23.8
Ps 55, 124
Hebrews 12.3-13
John 12.1-11
 
Hebrews 12:3-13
 
 
Run the race with discipline....
Because the Lord disciplines whomever he loves, and he punishes every son
or daughter whom he accepts. (CE Bible)
 
I will never forget the day I understood this:
My brother and I were teenagers, and we would fight like cat and dog, but
adored each other. One day when I tried to read my homework (nearly impossible when dyslexic) Maarten annoyed me to the end! I turned round from my desk and threw a compass at him. In that second I realised he could be blinded by the sharp point and yelled: “down!” He threw himself on the floor and we watched the compass embedded in the wall behind him. From that day on I ‘listened to the ‘little quiet voice inside me’. Always ask God what to do, it only takes a second. Therefore I was very strict with my own three children knowing what I myself was capable of and wanting to protect them from being hurt or not hurting others by being too wild. I tried to bring them up the way God would, and I made a lot of mistakes, but some good decisions, it would have been so easy to just let them decide for themselves, but at the end one always pays.... My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline or give up when you are corrected by him, because the Lord disciplines whomever he loves, and he punishes every son or daughter whom he accepts.
Paulina van Rijn
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