20th. November. 2021. Daily Devotion.
25 ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6:25-27
To defeat anxiety, concentrate on doing God’s will. Love and service will drive every foolish anxiety right out of our minds. Worry is banished when God becomes the dominating force in our live.
Live one day at a time. We may plan for the future, but the future is guaranteed to bring surprises. We need the energy we might waste on worrying to meet the challenges of the present. And when tomorrow comes, we will do the same thing: Confidant that we will not waste our time on needless anxiety, we can be assured that we will have the energy to cope with the days to come. Problems will arise, and God will give us what we need to solve them.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ~ Corrie Ten Boom.
Prayer for Christ to be with Us
May the peace of the Lord Christ go with us, wherever He may send us.
May He guide us through the wilderness, protect us through the storm.
May He bring us home rejoicing at the wonders He has shown us.
May He bring us home rejoicing once again into our doors. Amen.
Prayer for the Deceased
Heavenly Father, bless my loved ones who have passed from this life. Grant them mercy and peace; lead them to your loving embrace. And bring comfort and the consolation of hope to me, and to all who grieve for the dead.
I thank you, Lord, for the grace to move me through the challenges of this life and, especially, to look beyond death with faith and hope, to the new life you have promised. Amen.
Canticle
Christ, as a light
illumine and guide me.
Christ, as a shield
overshadow me.
Christ under me;
Christ over me;
Christ beside me
on my left and my right.
This day be within and without me,
lowly and meek, yet all-powerful.
Be in the heart of each to whom I speak; in the mouth of each who speaks unto me.
This day be within and without me,
lowly and meek, yet all-powerful.
Christ as a light;
Christ as a shield;
Christ beside me
on my left and my right.
Northumbria Community Prayer Book.
