The Cross dispels the darkness

Notes of meeting on 24 June 2014

Picture of Jesus full of light.
Many people are in darkness and the Cross with the Lamb on it is thrown into the darkness and the light from the Cross dispels the darkness and bathes the people in light.

Psalm 8

1Yahweh our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the world! Whoever keeps singing of your majesty higher than the heavens,
² even through the mouths of children, or of babes in arms, you make him a fortress, firm against your foes, to subdue the enemy and the rebel.
³ I look up at your heavens, shaped by your fingers, at the moon and the stars you set firm-
⁴ what are human beings that you spare a thought for them, or the child of Adam that you care for him?
⁵ Yet you have made him little less than a god, you have crowned him with glory and beauty,
⁶ made him lord of the works of your hands, put all things under his feet,
⁷ sheep and cattle, all of them, and even the wild beasts,
⁸ birds in the sky, fish in the sea, when he makes his way across the ocean.
⁹ Yahweh our Lord, how majestic your name throughout the world!

2 Corinthians 4 v 7-15

⁷ But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God's and not our own.
⁸ We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair;
⁹ we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us;
¹⁰ always we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our body.
¹¹ Indeed, while we are still alive, we are continually being handed over to death, for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our mortal flesh.
¹² In us, then, death is at work; in you, life.
¹³ But as we have the same spirit of faith as is described in scripture -- I believed and therefore I spoke -we, too, believe and therefore we, too, speak,
¹⁴ realising that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up with Jesus in our turn, and bring us to himself -- and you as well.
¹⁵ You see, everything is for your benefit, so that as grace spreads, so, to the glory of God, thanksgiving may also overflow among more and more people.

By your saving power raise me up

Notes from Night of Praise and Intercession for the Year of Faith, 4 December 2012

Picture of Golgotha in darkness with Jesus on the Cross.

We are called to carry the Cross in our own lives.

From the Cross comes light and new birth.

Prayer for the gift of Faith

Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our FAITH and brings it to perfection (Heb 12 v 2)

Lord Jesus, have mercy on me a sinner. Open my heart to your gift of faith. Give me light that I may have eyes to see You, ears to hear You, and a heart to understand love and obey You.

Remove any obstacles in me to your saving grace, and enable me to surrender completely with joy and gratitude to You as my Lord and my God. I repent of any rebellion, whether known or unknown.

Mother Mary, model of faith and Spouse of the Holy Spirit, help me now with your prayers, and lead me to your Son Jesus. Amen

John 20 v 1

1 It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb

Psalm 69 v 29-35

29 For myself, wounded wretch that I am, by your saving power raise me up!

30 I will praise God's name in song, I will extol him by thanksgiving,

31 for this will please Yahweh more than an ox, than a bullock horned and hoofed.

32 The humble have seen and are glad. Let your courage revive, you who seek God.

33 For God listens to the poor, he has never scorned his captive people.

34 Let heaven and earth and seas, and all that stirs in them, acclaim him!

35 For God will save Zion, and rebuild the cities of Judah, and people will live there on their own land;