My child your sins are forgiven

Notes of meeting on 13 January 2015


We thank you Lord for your living water, cleanse and purify us, heal us, forgive us, redeem us.
Fill us with your living water, fill us with your Spirit that we may praise worship and serve you and also that we may serve your people and the world at large.




Mark 2 v 1- 12
 
¹ When he returned to Capernaum, some time later word went round that he was in the house;
² and so many people collected that there was no room left, even in front of the door. He was preaching the word to them
³ when some people came bringing him a paralytic carried by four men,
⁴ but as they could not get the man to him through the crowd, they stripped the roof over the place where Jesus was; and when they had made an opening, they lowered the stretcher on which the paralytic lay.
⁵ Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, 'My child, your sins are forgiven.'
⁶ Now some scribes were sitting there, and they thought to themselves,
⁷ 'How can this man talk like that? He is being blasphemous. Who but God can forgive sins?'
⁸ And at once, Jesus, inwardly aware that this is what they were thinking, said to them, 'Why do you have these thoughts in your hearts?
⁹ Which of these is easier: to say to the paralytic, "Your sins are forgiven" or to say, "Get up, pick up your stretcher and walk"?
¹⁰ But to prove to you that the Son of man has authority to forgive sins on earth' --
¹¹ he said to the paralytic-'I order you: get up, pick up your stretcher, and go off home.'
¹² And the man got up, and at once picked up his stretcher and walked out in front of everyone, so that they were all astonished and praised God saying, 'We have never seen anything like this.'

Stay awake

Notes of meeting on 7 January 2015

Mark 13 v 33 -37
³³ 'Be on your guard, stay awake, because you never know when the time will come.
³⁴ It is like a man travelling abroad: he has gone from his home, and left his servants in charge, each with his own work to do; and he has told the doorkeeper to stay awake.
³⁵ So stay awake, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming, evening, midnight, cockcrow or dawn;
³⁶ if he comes unexpectedly, he must not find you asleep.
³⁷ And what I am saying to you I say to all: Stay awake!'

Mark 14 v 34
³⁴ And he began to feel terror and anguish. And he said to them, 'My soul is sorrowful to the point of death. Wait here, and stay awake.'

2 Corinthians 3 v 1- 6
¹ Are we beginning to commend ourselves to you afresh -- as though we needed, like some others, to have letters of commendation either to you or from you?
² You yourselves are our letter, written in our hearts, that everyone can read and understand;
³ and it is plain that you are a letter from Christ, entrusted to our care, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not on stone tablets but on the tablets of human hearts.
⁴ Such is the confidence we have through Christ in facing God;
⁵ it is not that we are so competent that we can claim any credit for ourselves; all our competence comes from God.
⁶ He has given us the competence to be ministers of a new covenant, a covenant which is not of written letters, but of the Spirit; for the written letters kill, but the Spirit gives life.


Heavenly Father I ask you to bless our group Theotokos. Send your Spirit upon us so that we will be witnesses to the living light of Jesus in our lives. You chose Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit to become the first tabernacle to hold your Son Jesus in her womb, therefore I ask Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, to bear us into holiness. Teach us to listen to the voice of God in the stillness of our hearts and live in his presence offering all our joys and sorrows for his honour and glory. Teach us to pray for the conversion of our hearts and the conversion of the world so that we may become faithful ambassadors of your Son, Jesus. Amen

Happy New Year, January Prayer Intention

Happy New Year to all.

Remember we meet again on 6 January 2015

January Prayer Intention:

In thanksgiving for 25 years of Theotokos Prayer Group and all the graces and blessings received during that time. That we would continue to be open to the Holy Spirit and his leading.

Heavenly Father I ask you to bless our group Theotokos. Send your Spirit upon us so that we will be witnesses to the living light of Jesus in our lives.

You chose Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit to become the first tabernacle to hold your Son Jesus in her womb,therefore I ask Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, to bear us into holiness.

Teach us to listen to the voice of God in the stillness of our hearts and live in his presence offering all our joys and sorrows for his honour and glory.

Teach us to pray for the conversion of our hearts and the conversion of the world so that we may become faithful ambassadors of your Son, Jesus.

Amen

We will be having a monthly prayer intention throughout the year and if anyone has ideas for areas of intercession please let us know. The first meeting of each month will be set aside for praying for the particular monthly intention.