Tuesday 30th June*
your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Jesus aches for God’s kingdom to be manifest on earth, and for God’s creation to align with his will. What does God’s kingdom look like as it gloriously permeates our lives on earth?
We get a clear glimpse of this through the way Jesus lived. His life did not occasionally leak a little of God’s concern. Instead, it was a torrent of love, generosity, restoration and healing. Of the 1,257 narrative verses in the four gospels, 484 verses or over 38 percent are devoted to describing Jesus' healing miracles. Remarkably, the most common activity reported about Jesus in the Gospels is not preaching, nor rebuking the Pharisees or his wayward disciples: on the contrary, it is healing. Healing and the restoration and comfort of sinful people form the centrepiece of Jesus’ entire ministry. He loves pouring out undeserved favour and restoring broken people. Whether it is lepers cast out from society (Matthew 8:2), or a demonised man shunned by his community (Mark 5:9), or restoration the ear of a man who was part of a plot to murder him (Luke 22:51), Jesus’ priority was characterised by healing. Healing is a sign and foretaste of the restorative nature of God’s wonderful kingdom in which sinful people are transformed into renewed creations free from afflictions, illnesses, oppression and sin which hitherto marred them.
Reflection
How has your life been transformed by Jesus’ healing power and love?
How does Jesus’ healing power shape your view of your own future – in this life and the one to come?
How might Jesus heal the lovely women we serve, and how does this reveal his heart towards them?
Thanksgiving
Praise Jesus for the healing you have experienced.
Let us again give thanks for Grace who walked free last year from the most vile coercion, oppression, addiction, homelessness and control.
Let us praise Jesus for his glorious desire to set more women free.
Prayer
Let us plead for greater healing anointing and boldness on walking outreach and in our Drop-In to see women instantly delivered from drug and alcohol addiction, trauma and shame.
That our Drop-In would be a place where God’s kingdom breaks into our lives and the lives of our women in the most surprising and powerful ways and that God’s love would be tangible, that he would perform miracles to set women free from sickness, addiction and control.
That God’s kingdom would come through salvation of our women: that we would be able to run Alpha with our women by the end of this year and that a woman would be baptized this year because of the in-breaking love of Jesus into her life.
Our women
Please pray for salvation, healing, strength, deliverance and new lives for our women:
Edna, Eleanor, Elsie, Emily, Erica, Esther.
* Tonight at we are hosting in-person prayer at our Drop-In space on West End Road. It will start at 7:30pm, finishing at 8:30pm. Afterwards , you are welcome to stay for the regular, weekly Zoom prayer meeting which starts at 8:30pm and finishes at 9:10pm