Day 9 - ‘in-a-minute’
Good Morning
I am looking today at the parable of the sower Matthew 13. The strange thing in this story is Jesus gets the listeners to look at the ground, not the sower. If you drive past a tractor working in a field, you look at the tractor. You rarely look at the soil and yet that’s what Jesus gets them to do, look at the soil. What kind of soil would you be in the story, the good stuff, the hard stuff, the shallow stuff or the weedy bits? I’m sure we would all like to be the good stuff, and if you ask the sower he will enable you to be good stuff for him whatever you do today.
May God Bless you
Kelvin<><
A Prayer
Lord God, I desire to be good soil able to bear fruit for you today, may people see Christ in me. Amen
‘Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvellous - how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born.’ PSALM 139: 14-16 (NLT)
Pray Pointers
Today Let us focus our Prayers on maternity and pray for:
Ask God to give wisdom, skill and compassionate understanding to obstetricians and gynecologists, midwives and other nurses and health care professionals treating women before, during and after a pregnancy.
Our Neonatal Units and Antenatal Units, Delivery suites midwifery staff etc.., Transitional Care
For our Consultants and those working in foetal surgery and medicine.
For mothers and fathers and supporting families
For the newborn
Pray for women facing a crisis in pregnancy; that they will find the caring support they need at this time.
For women in the developing world who needlessly suffer through childbirth. Pray for those seeking to improve those medical services.
A Prayer from Care for the family...
Almighty God, You have created each one of us to be unique and to fulfil Your good purposes. Please watch over all unborn children and their mothers; to bring them through pregnancy and childbirth safely. Grant Your peace to any expectant parents who are anxious and apprehensive. Amen.
