To Share Our Spiritual Gifts--June 16, 2014

Lord Jesus, as your disciples we often fail;

without knowledge or understanding

we walk around in darkness,

foundations shaken.

We want to follow

your commands, but we

are not good at discerning them.

Teach us to strengthen one another by

sharing our spiritual gifts, mutually

encouraged by each other's faith.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 145; 82; 29

Numb. 9:15-23; 10:29-36

Rom. 1:1-15

Matt. 17:14-21

Selected Verses

Ps. 82:5

[The gods] have neither knowledge nor understanding,
          they walk around in darkness;
          all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Numb. 9:23

At the command of the LORD [the Israelites] would camp, and at the command of the LORD they would set out.  They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses.

Rom. 1:11-12

For I am longing to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you--or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.

Matt. 17:16

"…And I brought [my son] to your disciples, but they could not cure him."  [The father of an epileptic boy to Jesus]