A prayer to begin the week: “O MOST gracious God, grant that in everything that happens today I may carry with me the remembrance of the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ my Lord.
Read MoreAnother prayer to finish the week: “HOLY God, I have dedicated my soul and life to you, yet I lament before you that I am still so inclined to sin and so reluctant to obey:
Read MoreMoses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do." (Ex. 24:3)
Read MoreNow when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” (Ex. 20:18-19)
Read MoreNow when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” (Ex. 20:18-19)
Read MoreHere is another morning prayer of Baillie's to begin the week: “O GOD of the ages, grant that I who am the heir of all the ages may gladly learn from the heavenly wisdom which in the past you have given to your servants.
Read MoreAnother evening prayer of John Baillie’s to close out the week: “TO you, O heavenly Father, be all praise and glory, as day by day you richly fill my life with many blessings:
Read MoreWhenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. (Ex. 17:11-12)
Read MoreAnd he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?” (Ex. 17:7)
Read MoreAnd he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?” (Ex. 17:7)
Read More