South Carolina

Colossians 3:1-2
You have been raised to life with Christ, so set your hearts on the things that are in heaven, where Christ sits on his throne at the right side of God. Keep your minds fixed on things there, not on things here on earth.

Triune God,
The river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal, flows from the throne of God and the Lamb. Christ Jesus is the Lamb of God, the Lion from the tribe of Judah, the great descendant of David. We kneel at his throne and sing

You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals.
For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.
You have made them a kingdom of priests to serve our God,
and they shall rule on earth. The Lamb who was killed is worthy
to receive power, wealth, wisdom, and strength, honor, glory, and praise!

May the praises to God resound over the land as living water flows from the throne of God and wells up in the hearts of Your children in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.
Bring the lowcountry up higher, Lord.
Your kingdom come, Your will be done along the Little Pee Dee, Waccamaw, Great Pee Dee, Lynches, Black, Santee, Wateree, Congaree, North Fork Edisto, South Fork Edisto, Edisto, Ashepoo, Salkehatchie, Combahee, and Savannah Rivers. Amen.

Lamentations 2:8-15

The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line; he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; therefore he has caused the rampart and wall to lament; they languished together. (Lamentations 2:8 )
      LORD, the walls that protected your church and your people have been cast down and your people languish.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD. (Lamentations 2:9)
      Father, your word and your law are regarded as nothing, our leaders and teachers in the Episcopal Church speak false visions.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground and keep silence; they throw dust on their heads and gird themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground. (Lamentations 2:10)
      Jesus, your faithful people mourn for your church — have mercy on us.

My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled; my bile is poured on the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and the infants faint in the streets of the city. (Lamentations 2:11)
      Lord, we are troubled by the events in the Episcopal Church — give us your peace and the comfort of your Holy Spirit.

They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” As they swoon like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out in their mothers’ bosom. (Lamentations 2:12)
      Holy Spirit, feed your people with your word. Anoint the preaching in the Diocese of Albany and in the Diocese of South Carolina and in all your faithful parishes.

How shall I console you? to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is spread wide as the sea; who can heal you? (Lamentations 2:13)
      Jesus, you are our healer and the healer of your church. Come soon, Lord Jesus; come soon!

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captives, but have envisioned for you false prophecies and delusions. (Lamentations 2:14)
      Father, shut the mouths of all those who speak false visions and words to your people.

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?” (Lamentations 2:15)
      Lord, many mock your church and your people. Restore us to the beauty of holiness and let the good news shine forth among us.

A word received: Pray for my heart and my mind to be in you.

A word received: Take my yoke upon you and find the freedom of my service.

Wednesday: 38 * 119:25-48; Lam. 2:8-15 1 Cor. 15:51-58 Matthew 12:1-14
Thursday: 37:1-18 * 37:19-42; Ezra 1:1-11 1 Cor. 16:1-9 Matthew 12:15-21

      Notes from the Front Line

***** Please pray for David Gough, CMS Ireland as he travels to Egypt, South Sudan and, for the first time with CMS Ireland, to 3 Partner Dioceses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
      19th October Wednesday, 07.00 , Bukavu Archdeaconry visits, MU, schools and other projects, Confirmed

Albany Intercessor

Kansas–Francis Sayre

The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr. (1915 — 2008) was Dean of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. for 27 years.

Open day, open land;
Open face, open heart;
So hast Thou made Kansas and her children, Lord.

Homesteads for weather,
Hands for work;
Fibre of human souls
Thou hast winnowed on the prairie.

Bless that free soil, O God,
Her hills of flint,
Her miles of wheat,
Her flowers in the sun,
And steady servants of Thine unswerving truth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Hat tip: The Anglican Digest

Governor Sam Brownback

Samuel Dale “Sam” Brownback is the current Governor of Kansas. He served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011, and as a U.S. Representative from 1995 to 1996.

When jogging one night, he stopped and spoke to a group of intercessors in front of the US Supreme Court:

It doesn’t take a majority to change history. It only takes a remnant.