June Walk & Pray Session

Due to the changeable weather, we decided to develop our last session having a walk along the canal instead of going to Kirkby Lonsdale. The prayer was focused in sharing our most happy moments and how we noticed the presence of God in those moments.
We started with the four aces of the Spanish cards. We chose one card randomly. Each ace card had a sentence written on the reverse. Each sentence leaded to one reading.

GENESIS 21, 1-6 : The Birth of Isaac

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised. So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him. Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

Have you ever felt that God has made you laugh?

LUKE 1, 39-45: Mary and Elizabeth

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah, and entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She exclaimed with a loud voice,“Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb! And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me? For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

Have you ever leaped for joy? Have you recognized God in those moments of happiness?

ACTS 20, 33-35: Paul travels to Macedonia and Greece

I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing. You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me. By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’

Do you have any rewarding experience of giving without receiving?