{"id":19335,"date":"2026-05-02T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=19335"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:24:41","slug":"prayer-for-the-week-saturday-2nd-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/prayer-for-the-week-saturday-2nd-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Week – Saturday 2nd May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lord, our God, we thank you for your gift of creation; for the universe, the heavens and the earth, the sky and the seas, trees and plants, sun, moon and stars separating light from darkness, all creatures great and small, and all people who live in this world.\u00a0 The earth is yours, and everything in it.<\/p>\n

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We have delighted in seeing snowdrops emerge from the dark, cold earth, the most delicate of flowers, which are not thwarted by the frost and the rain \u2013 new life, giving us hope.<\/p>\n

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Crocuses, daffodils and tulips now in full bloom cheer the still cold days of springtime and thrill us as they warm and brighten our surroundings with colours of hope and renewal.<\/p>\n

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And, Father, we rejoice and thank you for the best Gift of all \u2013 your Son and our Saviour, Jesus, who is risen from the dead!<\/p>\n

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On Good Friday hope seemed hopeless, and life seemed worthless, as Jesus suffered the unimaginable agony of crucifixion.\u00a0 He took the weight of the world\u2019s sin on his shoulders, even as he prayed, \u201cFather, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 On that dark day as Jesus cried, \u201cIt is finished\u201d<\/em>, Lord God, your work was accomplished.<\/p>\n

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Easter Sunday!\u00a0 Resurrection Light!\u00a0 The darkness of sin and death was defeated once and for all by the miracle, the wonder, the Light of his Resurrection.<\/p>\n

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Just as the angel said to the women, \u2018He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.\u00a0 Come and see the place where he lay\u2019<\/em>, we too are invited to come and see the empty tomb for ourselves and experience your resurrection power in our lives.<\/p>\n

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Mercy, salvation, grace, forgiveness, hope, reconciliation, renewal, peace, new life in Christ!<\/p>\n

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Joy to the world!\u00a0 The church bells ring out that Christ is risen from the dead. \u00a0Hallelujah!<\/p>\n

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Amen.<\/p>\n

Gail Balfour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scotland District<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo: Gail Balfour<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lord, our God, we thank you for your gift of creation; for the universe, the heavens and the earth, the sky and the seas, trees and plants, sun, moon and stars separating light from darkness, all creatures great and small, and all people who live in this world.\u00a0 The earth is yours, and everything in it.   We have delighted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","category-prayer-for-the-week"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 14:51:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19337,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions\/19337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}