A Week of Prayer & Fasting - Day 5
Guidance
Worship
Show me Your ways and teach me Your paths
Guide me in truth lead me on
For You're my God, You are my Saviour
My hope is in You each moment of the day
Read
1 In you, Lord my God,
I put my trust.
2 I trust in you;
do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
3 No one who hopes in you
will ever be put to shame,
but shame will come on those
who are treacherous without cause.
4 Show me your ways, Lord,
teach me your paths.
5 Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Saviour,
and my hope is in you all day long.
6 Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, Lord, are good.
8 Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
9 He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
10 All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful
toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.
11 For the sake of your name, Lord,
forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?
He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.
13 They will spend their days in prosperity,
and their descendants will inherit the land.
14 The Lord confides in those who fear him;
he makes his covenant known to them.
15 My eyes are ever on the Lord,
for only he will release my feet from the snare.
16 Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
17 Relieve the troubles of my heart
and free me from my anguish.
18 Look on my affliction and my distress
and take away all my sins.
19 See how numerous are my enemies
and how fiercely they hate me!
20 Guard my life and rescue me;
do not let me be put to shame,
for I take refuge in you.
21 May integrity and uprightness protect me,
because my hope, Lord, is in you.
22 Deliver Israel, O God,
from all their troubles!
Psalm 25.
Pray
Let’s close the week as we started, reminding ourselves that we are praying about the ministerial vacancy, not because it is an end in itself, but because we want God’s Kingdom to grow. We want people to commit to and become more like Jesus. This lovely Psalm begins “To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul; in you I trust, O my God.” With that thought in mind, let’s pray today that we:
Remember our blessings in Christ, as individuals and as church family;
Are filled with the Holy Spirit so that we may better discern God’s will, not ours, for the ministerial vacancy;
Renew our trust in God.
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