Bible Reading and Prayer
for Saturday 4th July 2020

Welcome to our virtual morning Bible Reading & Prayer for today.
Bible Reading
Matthew 9.14-17
The Question about Fasting
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but
your disciples do not fast?’ And Jesus said to them, ‘The wedding-guests cannot mourn as long
as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken
away from them, and then they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak,
for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into
old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed;
but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.’
Prayer for today
Almighty Lord and everlasting God,
we ask you to direct, sanctify and govern both our hearts and bodies
in the ways of your laws and the works of your commandments;
that through your most mighty protection, both here and ever,
we may be preserved in body and soul;
through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.