PRAISE, PONDER & PRAY
Welcome to Praise, Ponder & Pray, our Church’s online daily devotional—a place to draw closer to God through worship, reflection, and prayer. Join us each day as we seek His presence, deepen our faith, and intercede for others, experiencing the power of His Word and Spirit to transform our lives and the lives of those we love.
Welcome
Praise, Ponder & Pray is a simple time set apart to slow down and turn our attention to God. In praise, we lift our voices and hearts to honour the Lord, for who He is and for all He has done. In pondering, we take time to think carefully about God, His Word, and His ways, allowing truth to settle deeply rather than rushing past it. In prayer, we respond to God with honesty, bringing our thanks, our needs, and our concerns before Him. We desire to seek the face of God, not in haste, but with sincerity, listening as well as speaking.
Charles Spurgeon writes, “Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song.” We therefore invite you to use the YouTube video provided to lead you in a special time of praise. Each morning we worship God through Metrical Psalms, hymns, gospel songs, and contemporary worship songs. You may wish to sing along, or you may prefer to listen quietly and let the praise refresh you.
You are invited to draw near with boldness, rejoicing in the presence of the LORD, to praise Him and seek to rest under His smile. In these precious moments together, we give Him our praise, our thoughts, and our prayers, and worship God together.
“Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care” (Psalm 95:6–7)
DAY 1 - Scottish Metrical Psalm 57
We warmly invite you to make time each day to sit under God’s Word, because regular, unhurried reading of Scripture shapes our hearts, steadies our faith, and helps us walk closely with the Lord. Here you can choose between two reading plans. The One Year Bible guides you each day through the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs, offering a rich and balanced diet of Scripture that can be read in around 15 minutes. Alternatively, the Chronological Bible takes you through the whole Bible in a year in the order the events unfolded, helping you see God’s great story with clarity and depth.
If you are following our Praise, Ponder & Pray, you are also very welcome to use your own daily Bible reading plan at this point. Whichever readings you choose, our prayer is that you will stay rooted in God’s Word and grow daily in love for Christ.
Divine, Ever-Living, Unchanging
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. (1 Peter 1:25)
All human teaching and, indeed, all human beings shall pass away as the grass of the meadow; but we are here assured that the Word of the Lord is of a very different character, for it shall endure forever.
We have here a divine gospel; for what word can endure forever but that which is spoken by the eternal God?
We have here an ever-living gospel, as full of vitality as when it first came from the lips of God; as strong to convince and convert, to regenerate and console, to sustain and sanctify as ever it was in its first days of wonder-working.
We have an unchanging gospel which is not today green grass and tomorrow dry hay but always the abiding truth of the immutable Jehovah. Opinions alter, but truth certified by God can no more change than the God who uttered it.
Here, then, we have a gospel to rejoice in, a word of the Lord upon which we may lean all our weight. "For ever" includes life, death, judgment, and eternity. Glory be to God in Christ Jesus for everlasting consolation. Feed on the word today and all the days of thy life.
PRAY
After a moment of quietness, ask the Spirit of God to lead you as you pray for 5 people you long to see trust and follow Jesus, or for those who have wandered from Him. For those following “Engage 2026”, you may also wish to hold before the Lord your wider commitment to pray for 10 people. Name them before the Lord, asking Him in grace, mercy and love to reveal Himself and draw them to Christ. Then read and pray today’s prayer from The Valley of Vision, letting these Puritan prayers help lift your heart to God, and close by praying the Lord’s Prayer.
