Christ in Our Home devotions May 9 - May 15, 2016

Christ In Our Home Devotions

The Festival of Pentecost

The Holy Spirit comes upon the disciples

1. Make the sign of the cross over yourself and say:

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

2. Pray Luther’s Morning or Evening Prayer:

I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger. Keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please you. Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things. Let your holy angel be with me, that the wicked foe may have no power over me. Amen.

I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have graciously kept me this day. Forgive me all my sins, and graciously keep me this night. Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things. Let your holy angel be with me, that the wicked foe may have no power over me. Amen.

3. Pray the Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.

4. Pray the Prayer of the Week

Holy Spirit, God and Lord, come to us this joyful day with your sevenfold gift of grace.  Rekindle in our hearts the holy fire of your love that in a true and living faith we may tell abroad the glory of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Father, one God, now and forever. Amen.

5. Say the Apostles’ Creed:

     I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

     I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

     I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

6. Pray the Psalm of the Week: Psalm 51b

Refrain: Come, Holy Spirit, renew our hearts and kindle in us the fire of your love.

O Lord, open my lips,*

and my mouth will declare your praise.

You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;*

you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;*

a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Refrain

Create in me a pure heart, O God,*

and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Do not cast me from your presence*

or take your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation,*

and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways,*

and sinners will turn back to you.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son*

and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning,*

is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Refrain

7. Say the Verse of the Week:

Alleluia.  Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful people, and kindle in them the fire of your love. Alleluia. (From the antiphon: Come, Holy Spirit)

8. Read a Devotion or the Following Suggested Scriptures

M: 1 Kings 19-20, John 2

T: 1 Kings 21-22, John 3:1-21

W: 2 Kings 1-3, John 3:22-36

T: 2 Kings 4-5, John 4:1-30

F: 2 Kings 6-8, John 4:31-54

S: 2 Kings 9-11, John 5:1-24

S: 2 Kings 12-14, John 5”25-47 & Worship in the House of the Lord

9. Prayer of JOY: Jesus; Others; and Yourself

10. Sing or Say the Hymn of the Week: 

176  Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord

1  Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord! May all your graces be outpoured

On each believer’s mind and heart; Your fervent love to them impart.

Lord, by the brightness of your light In holy faith your church unite

From ev’ry land and ev’ry tongue;

This to your praise, O Lord our God, be sung: Alleluia! Alleluia!

2  Come, holy Light, Guide divine, And cause the Word of life to shine.

Teach us to know our God aright And call him Father with delight.

From ev’ry error keep us free; Let none but Christ our Master be

That we in living faith abide,

In him, our Lord, with all our might confide. Alleluia! Alleluia!

  

3  Come, holy Fire, Comfort true; Grant us the will your work to do

And in your service to abide; Let trials turn us not aside.

Lord, by your pow’r prepare each heart, And to our weakness strength impart

That bravely here we may contend,

Through life and death to you, our Lord, ascend. Alleluia! Alleluia!

Text: German hymn, 15th century, st. 1; Martin Luther, 1483–1546, st. 2-3;

tr. The Lutheran Hymnal, St. Louis, 1941, alt.