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You are invited to reflect on these scriptures, allowing the Spirit to speak to your heart.

Psalm 63:1-5

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

Exodus 4:1-12

Moses answered, \u201cWhat if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, \u2018The Lord did not appear to you\u2019?\u201d Then the Lord said to him, \u201cWhat is that in your hand?\u201d \u201cA staff,\u201d he replied. The Lord said, \u201cThrow it on the ground.\u201d Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the Lord said to him, \u201cReach out your hand and take it by the tail.\u201d So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. \u201cThis,\u201d said the Lord, \u201cis so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers\u2014the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob\u2014has appeared to you.\u201d

Then the Lord said, \u201cPut your hand inside your cloak.\u201d So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous\u2014it had become as white as snow. \u201cNow put it back into your cloak,\u201d he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh. Then the Lord said, \u201cIf they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.\u201d

Moses said to the Lord, \u201cPardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.\u201d The Lord said to him, \u201cWho gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.\u201d

Hebrews 10:11-14

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

John 10:14-16

Jesus said, \u201cI am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me\u2014just as the Father knows me and I know the Father\u2014and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

Prayer

Merciful Lord, forgive your people from our offences, that through your abundant goodness we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins which by our weakness we have committed; make it so, heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.