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Prayers and Readings from Santuary First

Each day you'll find fresh Scripture Readings and Prayers direct from the Sanctuary First website. If you wish, you can also comment on them, or mention how they have touched you. You can do this on the Sanctuary First Website

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Sanctuary First is a website devised from this congregation but funded by the Church of Scotland’s Emerging Ministries Task Group. It is an attempt to create an online network of worshippers, creating opportunities where people can meet for monthly worship and fellowship while giving them the opportunity to have daily prayers and reading, and regular texts and podcasts connected with their monthly worship experience.

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Daily Prayer

An Offering of Compassion [22nd February]

To hear those words, “Son, Daughter, your sins are forgiven”.
Those life-giving,
pain-healing,
faith-renewing words.

Those words are the beginning of life.
Those words come with the dawn.

The sun rises, and as its morning fingers
creep over the edge of the earth,
pushing back the blanket of night,
they send light,
trickling into the dark valleys,
spilling into the misty woods.

Light falls, lavishly
pours, prodigally
floods, extravagantly,
splashes, joyously.

Light dissolves the darkness;
brings hope, and renewal.

Light brings life, forgiveness brings life.

Forgiveness dissolves sin,
brings hope and renewal.

Forgiveness
falls, lavishly
pours, prodigally
floods, extravagantly,
into the dark places that we try to hide from you, oh, Lord.

It trickles into the dark valleys
and spills into the misty woods.
Brings life to what was dead
and healing to what was broken.

It brings us once more beyond the veil, into the sanctuary

To hear those words, “Son, Daughter, your sins are forgiven”!
Those life-giving,
pain-healing,
faith-renewing words.
Jesus, forgive.
Forgive my sin.
Forgive me.

Jesus speaks and sin is forgiven.

Comment on this Prayer at www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk | Published: Wed, 22 Feb

Daily Reading

Mark 11: 22-33 [22nd February]

“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

They arrived again in Jerusalem, and while Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you authority to do this?”

Jesus replied, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men? Tell me!”

They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men’….” (They feared the people, for everyone held that John really was a prophet.)

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”
Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

Comment on this Reading at www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk | Published: Wed, 22 Feb