Daily Prayer

December 3, 2023

We are now in the season of Advent. Each day through  Epiphany will feature a devotional from UKirk’s “Words for Waiting” written by someone connected to the UKirk network. To sign up to receive daily devotionals by email, go to www.UKirk Advent.org. Mark 13:24-37 I...

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December 2, 2023

Psalm 63:1-11 1   O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. 2   So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. 3   Because your steadfast love...

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December 1, 2023

Matthew 20:17-28 17While Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, 18“See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will...

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November 30, 2023

Psalm 130:1-8 1   Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. 2       Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! 3   If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? 4   But there is forgiveness with you, so that you...

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November 29, 2023

1 Peter 2:1-10 1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. 2Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation — 3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4Come...

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November 28, 2023

Psalm 146:1-10 1   Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! 2   I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long. 3   Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. 4   When their breath departs,...

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November 27, 2023

I Peter 1:2-9 (CEV) I pray that God will be kind to you and will keep on giving you peace! 3 Praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is so good, and by raising Jesus from death, he has given us new life and a hope that lives on. 4  God has something...

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November 26, 2023

Luke 19:11-27 (NRSV) 11As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 12So he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for...

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November 25, 2023

Psalm 100 (NRSV) 1   Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth. 2        Worship the LORD with gladness; come into his presence with singing. 3   Know that the LORD is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture....

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November 24, 2023

Matthew 18:12-18 (NRSV) 12What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 13And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over...

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