Sunday Focus

19th October 2025

 
Welcome to this weeks Sunday Focus, we pray you will be blessed.

 

Hymn - What a Friend we have in Jesus

 

Song -  I Lift My Eyes Up

 

God who is always near,
You invite us to draw close,
to listen to Your Word,
to wrestle with Your truth,
and to rest in Your love.
You are our help and our hope,
our keeper and guide.
In this time of worship,
write Your ways on our hearts,
shape us by Your Spirit,
and send us out in Your name.
Amen.

  Song -  How Deep The Father's Love For Us

 

Luke 18:1-8

The parable of the persistent widow

18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: ‘In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, “Grant me justice against my adversary.”

4 ‘For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, “Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!”’

6 And the Lord said, ‘Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?’
 

Questions to wonder about: How do we hold on in prayer and faith, even when life (or the world) tells us it's pointless? How do we withstand and remain defiant against the outside pressures and remain steadfast to God's plan?

Song -  Yet Not I But through Christ in me

 

Merciful God,
we admit that we often give up too quickly,
don't always prioritise prayer,
and lose heart when justice feels far off or disconnected.
We rely on our own strength,
seeking solutions to our own problems
and forget to look to You.
Forgive us when we avoid
Your work of shaping us.
Forgive us when we hear Your Word
and choose not to live it out.
Write Your grace on our hearts again,
and renew us in the joy of following You.
Amen.
 

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever.
Amen. 

 

 

Hymn -  All to Jesus I Surrender

 

 

Go into the week ahead,
with God's Word written on your heart,
strength for the journey, persistence in prayer,
and trust in God's vision for world full of justice and mercy.

And may the blessing of our Creator,
the Christ, and the Holy Spirit
go with you and keep you,
now and always.
Amen