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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 


September 24, 2012     


Two Kings 4

A poor  widow whose husband had been a prophet asked Elisha for help
when a creditor demanded her two sons  as slaves.

All she had was a small pot of oil, not enough to pay her debts.

Elisha told her to get many jars,
and start pouring oil from the pot into the jars.

As she and her sons did this, the oil did not run out.
Elisha told her to sell the oil to pay off her debts.

At another time Elisha  brought back to life a dead child.

He also once brought about a miraculous multiplication of bread.

Dear God,  you once worked miracles by the prayers of Elisha.
Please let  miracles be done in our day.

Psalm 139

O Lord, you search me and you know me.
You know my resting and my rising.

You know exactly what's going on in my life,
all my ways are an open book to you.

Before ever a word is on my tongue,
You know, O Lord, what I'm going to say.

Your knowledge is beyond my understanding,
too high, beyond my reach.

It was you who created my being,
knit me together in my mother's womb.

I thank you for the wonder of my life,
for the wonders of all your creation.

Lord, thank you for the gift of life. 
Please help me follow the path to eternal life

1 Timothy 4

Do not let people disregard you because you are young.
Be an example to all the believers in the way you speak and act

You have in you a spiritual gift which was given you when the church elders prayed over you
with the laying on of hands. Do not let this gift go unused

Take great care about what you do and what you teach.
In this way you will save both yourself and those who listen to you

Jesus, help me be a good example to other people

Luke 16

Jesus told this story to the people: There was a rich man who used to dress in expensive clothes
and feast magnificently every day

At his gate there was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,
who longed to eat scraps that fell from the rich man's table.
Dogs even came and licked his sores

The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.
The rich man also died and was buried. In his torment in Hell,
the rich man looked up and saw Abraham a long way off with Lazarus at his side

So the rich man cried out "Father Abraham, pity me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames"

"My son", replied Abraham, "remember that during your life,
good things came your way, just as bad things came the way of Lazarus.
Now he is being comforted here, while you are in agony"

Jesus, please help me understand how I should do more to help poor people