Upper Room Daily Reflection

WHEN WE INTERCEDE for someone or pray for a deep concern, we don’t preempt God. Long before we get a phone call or a note asking us to pray for someone or some concern, God is there, God’s love energies at work. That should lift a heavy burden that everything depends on us. We can confess with the Apostle Paul that we do not know how to pray as we ought. Like him, we depend on the Holy Spirit to come in to help us in our weakness and to intercede with “unutterable groans” (Rom 8:26).

- E. Glenn Hinson
“Not Giving Up”
Weavings

From p. 13-14 of Weavings Journal, July/August 2007. Copyright © 2007 by The Upper Room. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this magazine.

The Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on both sides.

- Exodus 14:29, GNT

Special Need:

This Week: Pray for grandparents and “wise elders.” Leave your prayer at the Prayer Wall.

Tips for Your Spirit:

Pray Your Type. So, now you know you are a Lover, Mystic, Prophet, or Sage. (If not, take the Spiritual Types Test.) Did you know that each of the spiritual types has a favorite way to pray? Check it out: Praying as We Are.

Saints, Inc.:

This week we remember John Chrysostom (September 13).

Lectionary Readings:

• Exodus 14:19-31
• Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21
• Romans 14:1-12
• Matthew 18:21-35

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FROM SHORE TO SHORE
Let God’s praise be sung.
From mountain highs to valleys low
Let the echo of praise resound.
From the mouths of children and the prayers of saints
Let thanksgiving abound.

- Larry James Peacock
Openings: A Daybook of Saints, Psalms, and Prayer

From p. 221 of Openings: A Daybook of Saints, Psalms, and Prayer by Larry James Peacock. Copyright © 2003 by the author. Published by Upper Room Books. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this magazine.

Hallelujah! Sing to God a brand-new song, praise him in the company of all who love him.

- Psalm 149:1, THE MESSAGE

Special Need:

This Week: Pray for all who labor under heavy burdens. Leave your prayer at the Prayer Wall.

Tips for Your Spirit:

What’s Your Spiritual Type? Do you approach spirituality through your mind or through your emotions? Are you more interested in serving others or experiencing God in silence? Find out your spiritual type by taking the MethodX Spiritual Types Test.

Saints, Inc.:

This week we remember Albert Schweitzer (September 4).

Lectionary Readings:

• Exodus 12:1-14
• Psalm 148
• Romans 13:8-14
• Matthew 18:15-20

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