daily reading 50.4 (Philippians 3:12–14)

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


Our opening prayer for this week:

    On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry
    announces that the Lord is nigh;
    Come, then and listen, for he brings
    good news about the King of kings.

    Then cleansed be every life from sin;
    and furnished for a guest within,
    And let us all our hearts prepare
    for Christ to come and enter there.

    We hail you as our Savior, Lord,
    our Refuge and our great Reward;
    Without your grace we waste away
    like flowers that wither and decay.

    Stretch forth your hand, our health restore,
    and lift us up to fall no more.
    Oh, make your face on us to shine
    and fill the world with love divine.

    All praise to you, eternal Son,
    whose advent has our freedom won,
    whom with the Father we adore
    and Holy Spirit evermore. Amen.

Philippians 3:12–14

  • Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
  •  13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,
  •  14 I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus. 
helpful notes on Philippians 3:12–14




For yourself pray

  • That by his Spirit God keeps you reaching for what he has promised, running hard

For others pray

  • That God reunites broken families in your community and extended circle of friends and family

A song to listen to and ponder, as time allows

  • Psalm 145 (YouTube, duet with guitars, "The Lord is gracious ...")

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