Morning Prayer6:45-7:30 am Wednesday. You’re welcome to join us for tea, coffee & toast after
Prayer
Welcome to Gateway’s prayer page. We hope it will inspire, challenge and encourage you in your prayer journey.
Pray with us
Every Wednesday in the Gateway Auditorium
Starting back up February 12th 2025
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No worries, you can join us for the whole time or just part of it.
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The Christmas story is filled with worship, heaven sent dreams and prayer. It was a time when Heaven touched earth in the most remarkable ways; when Bethlehem and the surrounding countryside became a thin place – a place where Heaven collided with earth and the atmosphere of another Kingdom could be seen, heard and touched. It was the time when God chose to come to earth and live among us – Emmanuel, God with us.
Mary worshipped as she waited for her son to be born, Joseph met God in his dreams, the shepherds stilled themselves in the fields of the Judean countryside and saw and heard Heaven speaking and the wise men set out to worship, journeying with expectation in their hearts until they found the one who was to be the focus of their worship.
Today in the business of life and in the midst of an aggressive consumer society, as we walk into and through the Christmas season, Heaven will again come close to earth but for many of us it will go unnoticed or draw only a cursory glance as we shop, eat, drink and holiday our way through the next weeks but we can make a choice to stop and draw aside. To come with grateful hearts in prayer and thanksgiving to God, the Creator of the universe, the one who holds all things in His hands and yet chose to come as a baby – helpless and dependant – so that ultimately after walking this earth, He could give up His life for us.
Let’s make this Christmas and holiday season a time of family, friends, laughter and celebration but above all let’s set our hearts to make it a time of personal reflection, thanksgiving, and worship to the One who is worth it all.
Mk 1:35 “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.”
It is not the time of day that is important, it it is the fact that we draw aside, at some time in our day to pray.
It is not the time of day that is important, it it is the fact that we draw aside, at some time in our day to pray.
Prayer Suggestion:
‘Though there was no room for you in the inn, grant this day that we might make abundant room for you in our hearts. Though your own did not receive you, grant this hour that we may embrace you with open arms. Though Bethlehem overlooked you in the shuffle of the census, grant us the grace, this quiet moment, to be still and know that you are, indeed, God’ Amen
How can we pray for you?
"The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with." - James 5:16 (MSG)
We have a team of people who regularly pray for our Gateway community, city & nation. If you would like prayer, please submit your prayer request below and someone will be praying for you this week!
If you would like to talk to our Pastoral Team, phone 021 318 663.
“We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restless…..”
Mother Teresa
