Sacred Meditations

Through the Council at Jerusalem, God brought His Church to one accord through the message of salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. We pray Him to unite His Church today in His saving doctrine. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages …

Since God knows our needs as well as our weaknesses, we ask Him to have compassion on us and give us those things for which we are unworthy to ask. Collect for Proper 11 (the Sunday closest to July 20), from The Book of Common Prayer.

Our Savior Jesus Christ bore the burden of sin and death for us, and thus liberated us to serve our neighbors. We pray Him to grant us gentleness as we bear one another’s burdens and humility to boast only in Him and His cross. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary …

Jesus Christ has set us free from the slavery of earning our salvation by works of the law. We pray Him to help us stand firm in the freedom of His cross that we may use that freedom to serve our neighbors. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in …

God reveals His salvation through His Word of truth that shows us our sin and delivers our Savior. We pray Him to send His Holy Spirit to call us by the Gospel and keep us in the true faith. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, …

God sent His Son to be born under the law to redeem us were under the law. We give Him our thankfulness and praise for adopting us as heirs of His promises through Baptism into Christ. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 or …

With today’s New Testament reading, Galatians 3:1-22, we pray the first two stanzas of the hymn “O, How Great Is Your Compassion” (Lutheran Service Book, 559). Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 or Treasury of Daily Prayer.)

God has justified us by faith in Christ and not by works of the law. We pray Him to give us faith that we we have been crucified with Christ and that it is no longer we who live, but Christ lives in us. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary …

With today’s New Testament reading of Galatians 1 we pray stanzas 1-3 of the hymn “Lord Jesus Christ, With Us Abide” (Lutheran Service Book, 585). Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 or Treasury of Daily Prayer.)

We pray that our gracious Lord would grant us to know what things to do and, by His grace, have the ability to accomplish them. Collect for Proper 10 (the Sunday closest to July 13), from The Book of Common Prayer.