Old things New Podcast

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...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I give you thanks for the new day before us. I praise you for your steadfast mercies on this new day. I praise and thank you for your marvellous word. In the reading of your word this morning, O Lord, please feed my soul. Unite my heart to fear your name. Lead me in the way everlasting, please quicken my heart and strengthen me for the challenges to come in the day ahead. M...

Prayer Heavenly Father, we give thanks to you for this day. We praise you. We ask, O Lord, that your kingdom may come and that your will may be done on earth as it is in heaven. And Lord, as we read your word now, may that be realized. May your will be realized in our lives. Please unite our hearts to fear your name. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Reading Gen 2:1-3. “ Thus the heavens and the earth...

Prayer Reading Gen 1:24-31. “ And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I give you thanks for this new day of life, all praise to you for your preserving grace in my life. I thank you for your patience with me, and for the many ways in which you have protected and preserved me when I would have rushed headlong in to sin. Thank you that you have been such a good and kind God to me. Lord, as I embark upon these studies into your word – in to the...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I praise you. You are the Supreme Potentate who rules over all things. I praise you for the sovereign ordering of my life, that you have perfectly directed all of my providences in perfect wisdom. I praise you for my joys. I praise you for my provisions. I praise you for my trials. I praise you for my pains. You have done all things well, and I praise you that eternity will...

Prayer Heavenly Father, I thank and praise you for this new day of life. I do not deserve the least of your kindnesses and benefits, and yet day after day your mercies are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Lord, as you have in your faithfulness sustained my physical life, I pray and ask that you may renew and sustain my spiritual life this morning. As I read your word, please open my...

Prayer Heavenly Father, At the start of this new day, I life up my eyes to the hills for my help, my help comes from you, O Lord, Maker of heaven and earth. All glory be to your name, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You are worthy to be praised, worshipped, and adored. I have made a poor return unto you for all of your goodness to me. I stand in great and continual need of mercy. Please forgive me a...