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This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:     reading + psalm + reading + gospel                  From  www.simplebible.info 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today. 
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, courage and peace for my daily life 

When Ahab was king of Israel, in the 9th century B.C.,
Elijah was a prophet of the Lord.

Elijah told Ahab there would be no rain for a long time
because the people were following the cult of Baal.

Elijah did miracles in the name of the Lord:
he blessed a poor widow's food to make it increase,
and he brought back to life a young boy who had died.

Dear God, please bless our prayers  as you blessed the prayers of Elijah

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. 
Lord, hear my voice.

If you, O Lord, should  record our guilt,
Lord, who would survive?

But with you is found forgiveness.
For this we revere you.

My soul is waiting for the Lord.
I count on his word.

My soul is longing for the Lord
more than watchman for the daybreak.

With the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption.

Israel indeed he will redeem
from all its  iniquity.

Lord, please forgive me for all the bad things I have done

We gave you a rule when we were with you:
not to let anyone have any food if he refused to do any work

Yet we hear that some of you are living in idleness, 
doing no work themselves but interfering with everyone else's work

In the Lord Jesus Christ, we order and call on such people
to go on quietly working and earning the food that they eat

Never grow tired of doing what is right

May the Lord of peace give you peace always and everywhere

Jesus, don't let me interfere in other people's business

Jesus said to his disciples "Be like people waiting for their master to return,
ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks.
Be ready, for the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect

"When someone is given a great deal, of that person more will be expected"

Jesus, you have given me so much.
Please help me use my gifts and my situation to do more  to help other people