Old things New Podcast

Prayer Heavenly Father, I give all praise and thanks to you. In wisdom you have established all your works, and you have done all things well. I praise you for your love, the greatness of your mercy, compassion, and patience is boundless toward me. I praise you for your jealous love, and that with you abides no evil – even unto the discipline of your children. In faithfulness you have done them al...

Prayer Our Lord and our God, we thank you for the world that you've made and for the constant supply of good things that you give to us. Lord, we pray as we live this day that you've given to us. Be merciful to us. Forgive us and help us. Lord, we pray as we begin to consider this topic of work, that you would help us to see our work, our vocations, from your perspective, that we may honour you in...

Prayer Dear Lord God, we thank you for the gift of life. We thank you for your word which gives life to us and we pray as we read your word now that you would renew our minds and show us your ways. Please help us, Lord, to appreciate better the gift of life and to live life with your perspective and purposes. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Reading Genesis 2:10-14. “ A river flowed out of Eden to wa...

Prayer Mighty God, full of compassion and grace, I worship you. On this new day, I look again to you, from whom all my help and supply of strength and grace comes. O Lord, please lavish your love upon once again today for the sake of Christ my Saviour. Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. I rest my soul in you. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen. Reading Proverbs 1:7. “ The fear of t...

Prayer Lord God, thank you for the gift of life. We praise you and we thank you. You've made us. You knit us together in our mother's wombs. We have been fearfully and wonderfully made in your image. Lord, please help us to consider the gift of life today and help us that we may not take it for granted. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Reading Genesis 2:9. “ And out of the ground the Lord God made to...

Prayer Lord God in heaven, praise and thanks be to you for this wondrous world that you've made and for the lives that you've given us and for sustaining and keeping us in our lives. Lord, as we open your word now, we pray that you would renew our vision of this world. Help us to see and seek your beauty and glory, and to praise you in response to the beauty that you have made in this world. Lord,...

Prayer Father in heaven, I praise you for this day, and for your manifold mercies. I praise you for fresh life today, that you preserved me through the night, and that your enduring patience and mercy has sustained me in Christ Jesus my Saviour. Father, I praise you that I belong to you, and I pray that you would be continually merciful to me for my many sins and failings. Lord, I am sorry for res...

Prayer Our Lord and our God we come before you in prayer now and we give you thanks for this day. We thank you for the world that you have made and all the things that you have given to us. Lord we pray that you would please help us to see this world and even our homes as you see them, that we might be more and more conformed to your will and that we may live in a way that is pleasing to you. Plea...

Prayer Gracious God in heaven, as we open your word again, we give all thanks and praise to you, our Maker and Creator, our Sustainer and our Redeemer. Lord, please renew our minds by your word. Sanctify us in the truth of your word. That your name may be exalted and glorified and that your kingdom may come. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Reading Genesis 2:8. “ And the Lord God planted a garden in...

Prayer Almighty God, Heavenly Father, as I turn my eyes upon Jesus this morning, as I look to your word and seek your face, my need is desperate. I am utterly unequipped and unable to do anything with the new day that you have given me. Rebel desires even in my own heart would overwhelm me, and I have not the strength to repel them. Give me strength, O Lord, please meet me in my need with a fresh...

Prayer Lord I come to you now for strength and food for my soul. I give all thanks to you for your goodness and care this day, and I pray that you may please help me now. Lord, without you, my soul perishes. Please unite my heart to fear your name, show me wonderful things from your word, and let your Holy Spirit have full residence and sway in my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen. Reading Genesis...

Prayer Our Lord and our God, our Heavenly Father, we pray as we give our attention to your word now that you may open our eyes and renew our minds and hearts. Lord God, may your name be exalted and magnified to our vision as we turn our attention to your word. Lord, be merciful to us and forgive us for our many sins, and lead us in your ways. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Reading Genesis 2:5-7. “...

Prayer Almighty God, my loving Heavenly Father, thank you for a new day of life. I praise and worship you, thank you for the privilege of this life. As I start out on this new day that you have given me, whatever this day may bring, O Lord, thou art God. You alone decree and determine all things, only help me I pray to be faithful with whatever is allotted to me. O Lord, meet me, I pray, in the mi...

Prayer Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever, amen. I pray, O Lord, that you feed my soul as I rea...

Prayer O Lord, my soul clings to the dust, revive me according to your word. You have shown us that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from your mouth, O God. In this vale of death, I feel death’s cold touch constantly seeking to make inroads into me – body and soul. And I have not the power to resist or undo it’s power. My hope is in you alone. Forgive me, O Lord,...

Prayer Almighty God, may Christ’s reign extend over all the earth. May your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. May the hearts of your people, and especially of my brothers and sisters in my local church, be greatly submitted to the subduing influence of the Holy Spirit today. I pray again, O Lord, I cry out – please give unto me wisdom! Please cause me to excel in und...

Prayer Almighty God your word gives life and brings light and life to all mankind. We pray that as we read your word now, please speak to us by your Holy Spirit. Please renew our minds. Conform us to your desires in our life. Lord, help us. Show us our sins. Strengthen us and be merciful to us. We ask for your blessing and help now as we open your word in Jesus' name. Amen. Reading Genesis 2:4. “...

Prayer Lord God, thank you for your word, which gives life to us. We pray that you may mercifully meet with us now and speak to us and help us as we open your word together, begin this new series of studies in the narrative of Eden in the book of Genesis. We ask for your help, for your gracious mercies, and we pray in Jesus' name, Amen. Reading Genesis 2:4-17. Meditation If you got to write the sc...

Prayer Almighty God, there is much to do in life, and I am vastly unequipped to do it. I do not have the wisdom I need, and I have demonstrated that countless times every day. In the midst of the turmoils of this life, I pray that you would meet with me and give me the wisdom that I need. Please Lord, my need is great. Please keep me from the evils that will assail me, lead me not into temptation,...

Prayer O my Lord, how desperately I need you. My soul is a desert, and you alone the fount and spring of water. Thorns and thistles I have gotten for myself, a ruin and a desolation. O Lord, pour out your Spirit and fill my barren soul with life. Meet me in the wilderness at the hill of calvary. Make me to live again, Lord. I am weary and sick with sin, wash me anew again, forgive me Lord. Restore...

Prayer O my Lord, how desperately I need you. My soul is a desert, and you alone the fount and spring of water. Thorns and thistles I have gotten for myself, a ruin and a desolation. O Lord, pour out your Spirit and fill my barren soul with life. Meet me in the wilderness at the hill of calvary. Make me to live again, Lord. I am weary and sick with sin, wash me anew again, forgive me Lord. Restore...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I thank you for your tender and kind mercies today, for the strengthening reminders of your help and grace. Lord, thank you that you have not abandoned my soul to Sheol. Lord, you have instructed us to let our requests be made known to you, and as Solomon prayed so long ago – I find myself lacking in the wisdom needed to fulfill my duties and calling. Lord, meet me in my we...

Prayer Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word and we thank you for the rhythms and rest of life and the work that you give us to do. We pray as we give our attention to the seventh day, the day of rest, that you would please enlighten our minds, renew our understanding and help us, Lord, to conform to your will and design. We pray that your will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. In J...

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Prayer Heavenly Father, truly you are the God of all grace, goodness, mercy, and compassion. I praise you for prayers answered, mercies shown, and goodness given beyond my prayers. I praise you that, in your love, you refuse to withhold the disciplines and difficulties that I need so that my remaining sinful nature may be mortified. O Lord, I pray that as I open up your word this morning, you woul...