Christ in Our Home devotions Sept 12 - Sept 18, 2016

Christ In Our Home Devotions

18th Sunday after Pentecost

Faithful use of possessions

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

Lord God, you call us to work in your kingdom and leave no one standing idle. Help us to order our lives by your wisdom and to serve you in willing obedience; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, 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 38

Refrain: Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger*

or discipline me in your wrath.

For your arrows have pierced me,*

and your hand has come down upon me.

My guilt has overwhelmed me*

like a burden too heavy to bear.

Refrain

All my longings lie open before you, O LORD;*

my sighing is not hidden from you.

I wait for you, O LORD;*

you will answer, O Lord my God.

Come quickly to help me,*

O Lord my Savior.

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. My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Alleluia. (2 Corinthians 12:9a)

8. Read a Devotion or the Following Suggested Scriptures

M: Proverbs 21-22; 2 Corinthians 4

T: Proverbs 23-24; 2 Corinthians 5

W: Proverb 25-27; 2 Corinthians 6

T: Proverb 28-29; 2 Corinthians 7

F: Proverbs 30-31; 2 Corinthians 8

S: Ecclesiastes 1-3; 2 Corinthians 9

S: Ecclesiastes 4-6; 2 Corinthians 10 & Worship in the House of the Lord

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

10. Sing or Say the Hymn of the Week: 

421  All Depends on Our Possessing

1  All depends on our possessing God’s abundant grace and blessing,

Though all earthly wealth depart.

They who trust with faith unshaken In their God are not forsaken

And e’er keep a dauntless heart.

5  If on earth my days he lengthen, He my weary soul will strengthen;

All my trust in him I place.

Earthly wealth is not abiding, Like a stream away is gliding;

Safe I anchor in his grace.

Text: Andächtige Haus–Kirche, Nürnberg, 1676, abr.; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1827–78, alt.