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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 

Ahaziah, king of Israel, was seriously ill after a fall.
He tried to send messengers to the temple of a false god
to ask about his future.

But the Lord sent Elijah the prophet to intercept the messengers
and tell them that the king would die.

The king sent 50 soldiers to arrest Elijah
but as they approached Elijah, fire from heaven destroyed them.

The king sent another 50 soldiers.
They too were destroyed by fire from heaven.

A third group of 50 was sent. They begged Elijah to spare them.
The Lord told Elijah to go with them to the king.

Elijah then told the king to his face that he would soon die
because he had tried to ask a false god about his future.
Not long after this, Ahaziah died.

Dear Lord, please don't let me ever get involved with false religion

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and cried, remembering Zion.
On the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps.

For it was there that they asked us, our captors, for songs.
"Sing to us", they said, "one of Zion's songs".

O how could we sing the song of the Lord on alien soil?
If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand wither.

O let my tongue cleave to my mouth
if I remember you not, Jerusalem , above all my joys.

Lord, please help  people who have been exiled from their homeland

To want to be a presiding elder is to want to do a noble work.
That is why the president must be above reproach:

He must not have been married more than once. He must be temperate, discreet, courteous, hospitable, a good teacher, not a heavy drinker, not hot-tempered, but kind and peaceable

He must not be a lover of money.
He must be a man who manages his family well and brings up his children well.

How could anyone who can't manage his own  family
be given responsibility to manage God's family?

He should not be a new convert in case he becomes full of pride

The Church of the living God is God's family.
The Church is the guardian of the truth

Jesus, please give the Church good leaders

Jesus said to the meal guests "When you give a lunch or a dinner, 
do not ask your friends, family, or rich neighbors

Rather, when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled,
the lame, the blind

That they cannot repay you means you are fortunate, 
because repayment will be made to you when the virtuous rise again"

Jesus, help me do more to help poor people