Week 4, Day 1

+ We draw near to God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.

Silence

Readings

Silence

Commitment

• We are committed to following God on the margins and in the gaps, expecting to discover God at work among powerless people and in places of weakness.

During the past month, where have you experienced powerlessness and weakness, either in yourself or others?

Where was God in it?

What did you learn of the kingdom through it?

Did it leave you with a sense of pain?

Of hope?

Of a decision to be made?

Gently offer it to God in prayer

Lord of the universe,

Lord of the smallest particle of dust,

we meet you in the broken and the despairing

we know you in the unlikely and the unimagined.

We live alongside the bent and bruised

and we see you there

We worship with the damaged and deranged

and we see you there

We work with the oppressed and yearning

and we see you there

and we meet our own fragmentation there too.

In encountering powerlessness

we see Jesus;

In our weakness

we meet Jesus;

In living in the gaps

we follow Jesus;

who is our power,

who is our strength,

who is our Lord,

and who leads us on.

You are working to make all things new,

to help us to embody that hope,

to express that vision,

and to work for its coming.

Free prayer

The Lord's Prayer

Lord, in your mercy

Let your kingdom come!