Leaders Full of the Spirit and Wisdom--June 24, 2015

God, you are great, and abundant in power;

your understanding is beyond measure.

We are weak, and full of betrayal,

and our understanding is poor.

Help us find leaders, people

of good standing, full of the Spirit

and wisdom, to show us how to return

to you, and with all our hearts to serve you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 15; 147:1-11; 48; 4

1 Sam. 7:2-17

Acts 6:1-15

Luke 22:14-23

Selected Verses

Ps. 147:5

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;
          his understanding is beyond measure. 

1 Sam. 7:3

Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Astartes from among you.  Direct your heart to the LORD, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” 

Acts 6:3

"…Therefore, friends, select from among yourselves seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this task [of distributing food]…"  [The twelve disciples to the community]

Luke 22:23

Then [the disciples] began to ask one another which one of them it could be who would do this [betray Jesus].