Week Forty-one of Cultivate Delight, where we are actively planning our spiritual endeavors this coming week with the goal of a consistent time spent engaging our hearts with Christ in his word, in prayer, in reflection, and in music. Below are some starting points for reflection, and I hope you find them helpful. The goal is to not just rush through these and then get on with your day. Take your time and reflect throughout the week on these items.
“Desires blown by meditation are the sparks that set prayer in a light flame.”
– Samuel Lee (1625–1691), The Nature and Method of Secret Prayer
Bible Reading
1 Chronicles 23 –
2 Chronicles 2
Old Testament
(Two-year plan)
Titus 1 –
Hebrews 1
New Testament
(One-year plan)
Liturgy – New City Catechism
Question 41: What is the Lord’s 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 today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:9
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name…”
Worship
The Lord’s Prayer
Our father which art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our debts
As we forgive our debtors
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For Thine is the kingdom
And the power
And the glory
Forever
Amen