daily reading 21.4 (Romans 12:3–5)

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024


Our opening prayer to the Holy Spirit for this week:

    Your light to every thought impart,
    And shed your love in every heart.
    The weakness of our former state
    With deathless might invigorate.

    Drive far away our wily foe
    And your abiding peace bestow;
    If you are our protecting guide,
    No evil can with us abide.

    Teach us to know the Father, Son,
    And you, from both, as Three in One
    That we your name may ever bless
    And in our lives the truth confess.

    Praise we the Father and the Son
    And Holy Spirit, with them one,
    And may the Son on us bestow
    The gifts that from the Spirit flow! Amen.
  

Romans 12:3–5

  • For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.
  • 4 Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function, 5 in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.
helpful notes on Romans 12:3–5



For yourself pray:

  • That by his Spirit God gives you more humility for Jesus' sake

For others pray:

  • That God builds harmony and cooperation in your congregation

A psalm to listen to and ponder, as time allows:

  • Psalm 78 (YouTube, choir, "The Lord gave them bread.") 

 

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