PrayerBits for Saturday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Saturday

Scripture lesson: Acts 19:1-7 The Holy Spirit

Time to reflect: The Holy Spirit doesn't always come in such a dramatic fashion. Sometimes it is the “still, small voice.” One is not better than the other.

Moving through the day: When do you feel the Holy Spirit in you? Do you recognize it when it does speak to you?

Scripture:

 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?"
      They answered, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

 So Paul asked, "Then what baptism did you receive?"
      "John's baptism," they replied.

 Paul said, "John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus." On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. 7There were about twelve men in all.

PrayerBits for Tuesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Tuesday

Scripture lesson: Ephesians 1:3-14 Revelations

Time to reflect: One of the amazing things about God is that he chooses to provide information about the divine nature and the divine plan. God is not a secretive God or an aloof God by a revealing God.

Moving through the day: Give thanks to God for the knowledge you have been given about God.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory.

PrayerBits for Saturday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Saturday

Scripture lesson: Acts 19:1-7 The Holy Spirit

Time to reflect: The Holy Spirit doesn't always come in such a dramatic fashion. Sometimes it is the “still, small voice.” One is not better than the other.

Moving through the day: When do you feel the Holy Spirit in you? Do you recognize it when it does speak to you?

Scripture:

 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?"
      They answered, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

 So Paul asked, "Then what baptism did you receive?"
      "John's baptism," they replied.

 Paul said, "John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus." On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. 7There were about twelve men in all.

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PrayerBits for Friday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Friday

Scripture lesson: Psalm 29 Epiphany

Time to reflect: Epiphany means God appearing personally in the world. Psalm 29 contains the traditional, Old Testament, images of what it might be like when that happens. It is very dramatic language. We speak of Jesus as “God with us” and his presence as an epiphany. But that epiphany wasn't accompanied by skipping mountains.

Moving Throughout the day: Meditate on God appearing in such an undramatic fashion.

 Scripture:

Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones,
       ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
       worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.

  The voice of the LORD is over the waters;
       the God of glory thunders,
       the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.

 The voice of the LORD is powerful;
       the voice of the LORD is majestic.

 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars;
       the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

  He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
       Sirion like a young wild ox.

  The voice of the LORD strikes
       with flashes of lightning.

 The voice of the LORD shakes the desert;
       the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.

  The voice of the LORD twists the oaks
       and strips the forests bare.
       And in his temple all cry, "Glory!"

 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood;
       the LORD is enthroned as King forever.

  The LORD gives strength to his people;

       for precious is their blood in his sight.

PrayerBits for Wednesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Wednesday

Scripture lesson: Gal 4:4-7

Time to reflect: We view baptism as a symbol of a child or adult being adopted into the family of God.

Moving through the day: What does it mean to you to be a part of the family of God.

 Scripture:

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

PrayerBits for Tuesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Tuesday

Scripture lesson: Ephesians 1:3-14 Revelations

Time to reflect: One of the amazing things about God is that he chooses to provide information about the divine nature and the divine plan. God is not a secretive God or an aloof God by a revealing God.

Moving through the day: Give thanks to God for the knowledge you have been given about God.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory.

PrayerBits for Thursday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Thursday

Scripture lesson: Gen. 1:1-5 Creation

Time to reflect: The first creation story, Genesis 1:1-2:4a is a theological (not a scientific) treatise. One of the key points, expressed in verse 2 is that God created order out of chaos.

Moving through the day: Chaos and evil keep trying to break through pray for God's continuing work of creation.

Scripture:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

  Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

  And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

PrayerBits for Monday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Monday

Scripture lesson: Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus

Time to reflect: Too bad all who have defrauded the public can't get the spirit of Zacchaeus.

Moving Through The Day: Pray about one person who has harmed and how you can repay “four fold.”

Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.

 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today." So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.

 All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a 'sinner.' "

 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."

 Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."