A Young Person’s Prayer--March 18, 2021

Loving God, I do not know how to pray as I ought;

but even if my parents would forsake me, 

and even if I did not listen to you, 

would you not take me up?

 

Jesus, Living Bread, came down from heaven. 

According to your will, may his Spirit

search my heart, and interceding,

help me in my weakness.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102

Jer. 22:13-23

Rom. 8:12-27

John 6:41-51

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 27:10

If my father and mother forsake me,
          the LORD will take me up.

 

Jer. 22:21a

I spoke to you in your prosperity,
          but you said, “I will not listen.”

 

Rom. 8:26-27

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.  And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

 

John 6:51a

“…I am the living bread that came down from heaven.  …”  [Jesus, to his complainers]