Rose City Presbyterian Church

30/06/2026

Last Sunday, the elders of Millmerran Presbyterian Church led their church family in prayer. Gary Shultz wrote his Prayer of Praise and Confession, and Howard Rickert his Prayer of Thanks and Request.

Here they are:

PRAYER OF PRAISE AND CONFESSION

We thank You God that we can meet together today as part of the body of Christ. We praise You, that You chose us in Christ, before the foundation of the world.

Father, we thank You that You are the creator & sustainer of life & You provide for us in every way. We thank You God for your word, which is a lamp to our feet & a light to our path. Your word that never changes, which is the same yesterday, today & forever.

Lord, we confess that we have sinned against You; we have gone our own way; we have taken our eyes off of You. We thank you Jesus, that Your broken body & shed blood has covered all of our past, present & future sins. We praise You that even while we were sinners, You died for us. We thank You Jesus that because of Your love, grace, forgiveness & faithfulness, You have taken away the sting of death & replaced it with life eternal.

We thank You Holy Spirit for showing us the way, the truth & the life. Help us, we pray, to give us strength & courage in adversity & continue to open our hearts to the truth of Your word.
We praise You Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

In Jesus’ name we pray,
Amen.

29/06/2026

On Sunday, we heard from Jackson Pitstock as he taught us from Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount about Living Without Judging Others.

Dominika Goulter led us in her prepared prayers. Here they are:

Prayer of Praise and Confession

Our Father in Heaven,

We praise you for your steadfast love and faithfulness. Thank you that are a God that is all knowing and, in your power, we are strengthened every day. Your presence Lord, is always with us. Thank you that as we seek you in our daily lives, we can trust you. You are a just God. Praise be to you Lord that it is you that judges this world for righteousness. Thank you that you are the way, the truth and the life. That you work all things for good.

But Father, we confess our worldly ways and fleshly desires. Forgive our judging nature. Help us to notice the foolishness of our thoughts and ways. Far to often we can be blinded by the hypocrisy within us.

Lord, please renew our minds. Help our words to be more edifying and our hearts to be loving our neighbour. You are a God that teaches us to have self-control; to tame our tongues yet we can be foolish with our words and hide from speaking truth. Father, forgive the judgments that flow from within us.

Father, we thank you for the forgiveness we have through the blood of Jesus. That through his sacrifice we have been saved and have a place in your Kingdom. All throughout your word you show us how to live, to glory, to praise and sing to you. Lord, please remind us of this and help us to be a people that does this daily. Thank you that in your wisdom we have a future and a hope.

In Jesus’ precious name we pray, Amen.

Prayer of Thanks and Request

Heavenly Father,

Thank you that everyday is a new day. New grace and mercies that you offer us. Thank you for your hesed lovingkindness and the assurance we have in Christ Jesus. Lord thank you for the comfort and help through the Holy Spirit. We pray Lord, for your strength to guide us through our everyday.

Thank you Father, for this series, learning to live without. As we come to the last episode we pray for the wisdom that has been gained to be fruitful in our lives. We pray Lord that in all our ways you may be glorified in all that we do.

As we bring our requests to you today, Lord, thank you that we can ask, seek and knock. With so many blessings you provide Lord, we are thankful for Daniel and his MTS ministry. May you keep sustaining him in all that he does to serve and strengthen him with your wisdom. Lord, thank you for the opportunity for the GROW Women’s Conference held in August, may it be a blessing and provide growth for many attending.

Lord, we pray for our sister churches Millmerran and North Toowoomba. Thank you for the blessing of Daniel and Dave being able to preach at Millmerran and Father we uphold Geoff Hain to you and pray for gospel comfort and strength in his declining health. We also pray for North Toowoomba that as they search of a new minister you would provide someone with a faithful serving heart.

Father, we thank you for this training term we have had and the blessing of the 8 men that have served our church through this ministry and fellowship. Thank you Lord for the discipleship in our growth groups and we pray for a restful time over this holiday period.

Father, we thank you for the upcoming church camp, we pray that many would attend and share in the fellowship. Thank you Lord for Emily the events deacon and many others for the amazing work and passion in organising this.

Thank you Lord, for the prayerful discussions and decisions made at the deacons meeting held on Monday. May you provide and grow faithful serving hearts in all the deacons. Lord, we thank you for the upcoming arrival of babies in the next few weeks.

We pray for Hannah and Destiny for the safe arrival and health of their precious babies, may you Lord provide all the strength and comfort they need in this time.

Father, as we come to hear today’s sermon on learning to live without judging others, may you give Jackson the words to speak clearly and faithfully.

Lord, soften our hearts. Help us to be quick to listen and slow to speak. Guide us to pray for change instead of judging. Father, remind us that you are in control and through our obedience we will bear fruit.

In Jesus’ precious name we pray, Amen.

15/06/2026

On Sunday, we heard from David Bailey as he taught us from Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount about greed. Kids Ministry Deacon, Anthony Carroll, also gave us an update on our Kids Ministry.

Yoliza Van Dyk led us in her prepared prayers. Here they are:

PRAYER OF PRAISE AND CONFESSION

Heavenly Father, We praise you that we can come together and worship at your feet, Lord. That Our Father in Heaven,
Hollowed be Your Name.
You are the Almighty Creator of the Heavens and earth, the great ‘I AM’.

Your Word, Lord, is eternal, it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations, you established the earth, and it endures.

Your Word became flesh and is the only way, the truth and the life, no one comes to you, except through your son, Jesus Christ.
We come humbly before you Lord, for you are a consuming fire, a jealous God.

But Father, we confess that we have so many idols, hidden in our busy schedules. Our work, sports, leisure and ‘me’ time, consume most of the day; with a quick bible reading and prayer time, just to tick the boxes.

As ‘church’ people, we also try to hide our anger, lust, untruthfulness, our urge for vengeance, our pride, greed, our excessive worrying and stress and to judge others.
We have all sinned, and fall short of your Glory, but we are justified freely by your grace, through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ.

We ask that you will remove our sins as far as the East is from the West and that you will cleanse us through the blood of our Saviour.
Thank you that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.

Because of your great love, we are not consumed, for your compassions never fail. Your mercies are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.

We give thanks to the God of gods. Your ‘hesed’ love endures forever.

In the name of Jesus and by His Spirit we pray, Amen.

PRAYER OF THANKS AND REQUEST

Our Father in Heaven,
We thank you for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who willingly died in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and for bringing us back to You.

Thank you that You have chosen us, and that we can live in your everyday provision and ‘hesed’ love.
We also bring our requests to you today, Lord.

We pray for all our Elders and Deacons – who oversee the spiritual and practical needs of the congregation. We pray for time, energy and joy in serving in these roles. And today, especially for Anthony, for encouragement in his challenging and rapidly growing Kids ministry role. And, for Scott and Dominika – that you will bless the family as they expect their new baby boy in December, Lord.

We pray for the upcoming PCQ Assembly, we ask for wisdom, grace and courage to make difficult decisions, according to Your will.

Lord, we also bring before you, our sister church in ChristLife Presbyterian Church Toowoomba. We pray for their new ‘Discover Jesus’ course – that many will feel welcomed and understand who Jesus is.
We thank you for their current preaching series in Daniel – and pray with them that we all will live faithfully in a ‘foreign’ land like Daniel did.
You also know there were two air conditioners stolen from their property, Lord. As this is a large, unplanned expense – we ask you for the right provision to come at the right time – and the right price please.

Then, we pray for our own church finances. Lord, you know our circumstances, and we ask your blessing on our congregation – your body of Christ – with good finances and for guidance how to shepherd it well.

Most of all Lord, we pray for open ears and hearts as David Bailey brings us your Word. We ask that you’ll bless Dave – and that he will be bold in the difficult teaching not to be greedy.

We are all stewards of the wealth we receive, please help us to invest those in our heavenly treasures.

In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

08/06/2026

On Sunday we heard Elder David Hannah teach us from Jesus’ words in His Sermon on the Mount about Pride. Our Sunday Property Deacon, Jackson Pitstock, also gave us an update on our Property Ministry.

Jackson Pitstock led us in her prepared prayers — here they are!

PRAYER OF PRAISE AND CONFESSION

Heavenly Father, We praise you that we can come together and worship at your feet, Lord. That you provide for our church, including our finances, our understanding and our time for one another.

How great it is to worship you; the one who lays himself out for us, even though we’ve rebelled against you.

You, who sent his only Son, who is perfect. You sent Him to the world to die and rise again out of love for us, so that we can have what is truly good, forever.

You, Lord are truly good! But Lord, we are sorry that we often follow the ways of the world and constantly choose to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil over you.

Please guide us along the right path towards your will. In Jesus name, Amen

PRAYER OF THANKS AND REQUEST

Lord, We thank you for our church family and for all those who serve us in many different ways.

Today we’d like to thank especially David Hannah, who has served our church family as an elder since 2020 and is now going on leave for a year. Please grant him rest and refreshment over this time.

We thank you for the gift of marriage and the newlyweds, Matt and Sarah who both said their vows yesterday.

Please be with them and guide their marriage down your path, Lord. We ask Lord, that we can listen and understand as David Hannah brings us his sermon today on ‘Learning to Live Without Pride’. And we also thank you for our elders as they meet tonight to oversee our church family.

We ask that you can give them wisdom and protection as they serve our church and you, our Lord. In Jesus name, Amen

05/06/2026

On Sunday we heard Elder Carl Dittman teach us from Jesus’ words in His Sermon on the Mount about vengeance. Our Sunday serving Deacon, Dominika Goulter, also gave us an update on our Sunday serving hospitality ministry.

We prayed for our sister church at South Burnett Kingaroy Presbyterian Church, and Jill Goulter led us in her prepared prayers — here they are!

PRAYER OF PRAISE AND CONFESSION

Our Father in Heaven.

Father we praise and thank You for You are our God, a fountain of mercy and grace. Holy is your name. It is truly right to praise You, love You and worship You with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. You are our sovereign Lord, the great I AM. You are the all powerful, Supreme Ruler over all creation. We see the glorious work of your hands all around us. You set everything in its place and saw that it was all very good. Your hands fearfully and wonderfully made us in your image, giving us worth and dignity. Even though we became your enemies when the original, intimate relationship with You was severed by the fall, you loved us. Lord we praise You for the wonderful things you planned long ago. Full of ‘hesed’ compassion and loving-kindness for us You relentlessly pursued us down through the ages. Because of Your plans to come to our rescue we have hope and a future. It is in You alone in whom we can put our trust. We praise You Lord, for You are a God who saves; a gentle, loving Father who loves us beyond measure.

But Father, we come before You humbly confessing that we have been profoundly affected, burdened and enslaved by our sinful nature. Sin is still in us and with us in whatever we do. We confess that our hearts are shaped and influenced by the ways of this world. Attitudes towards anger, bitterness, wrath, clamour, slander and malice all reside within us. In this day of entitlement, self promotion and impersonal, virtual relationships we have forgotten what it means to be kind to one another. We do not make allowances for other peoples’ faults. We are blind to our own failures. We miss opportunities to show acts of kindness, compassion and humility that would repair broken relationships. Merciful Lord, our sins are many and we deserve Your wrath. We are sorry, Lord. Please forgive us. Renew our minds and cleanse our hearts from all unrighteousness, we pray.

Father we praise and thank you for Your Son, Jesus, who full to overflowing with your ‘hesed’ came into this world, so that we might be saved. His shed blood brought healing, forgiveness and restoration into this broken world. Thank You Father for your amazing acts of ‘hesed’ in your divine plan for the salvation of many.

In Jesus name and by His Spirit we pray.
Amen

PRAYER OF THANKS AND REQUEST

Our Father in Heaven

We thank You that we can come before You and bring everything to You in prayer. Lord we thank You that You are ever present with us. You never change. You are the same, yesterday, today and forever. Secure in this knowledge we know that we can totally depend on You all of the time. We thank You for your great love and care, mercy and grace.
Most of all Father, we thank You for your ‘hesed’ love for us manifested in your only son Jesus. Gentle and lowly of heart, full to overflowing with your ‘hesed’, He took the crushing burdens of our sins upon His shoulders to the Cross. Thank You O mighty God.

Father we thank You for this term’s study from Matthew’s Gospel of ‘Learning to live Without’. We thank You for Carl’s leading and preaching on this week’s big idea, Jesus’ object lesson how to live without vengeance. May we listen well with our ears and most importantly, our hearts.

Lord, we pray for Pastor Dave who is enjoying some annual leave. We ask that You will bless him with rest, refreshment and renewal. We also lift up the Bailey family to You as they prepare for the imminent wedding of their son Matthew. We pray they will adapt well to the changes in all their relationships. We ask for Your richest blessings for Matthew and his bride, Sarah, as they leave their parents and cleave to each other as husband and wife.

Father, we thank You for the happy news of engagements from Hannah and Amy, both past members of our Church. We ask that your blessings rain over Hannah and Nathan and Amy and Joseph during this engagement period as they prepare for marriage.

Lord we pray for our sister church in Kingaroy. We thank You for your faithfulness to our brothers and sisters in the appointment of Rev Greg Cooney as assessor Elder. We ask that You will strengthen and grow the congregation as they seek to serve each other and the wider community.

We praise You Lord for our Growth Groups. We thank You for the enjoyment we have in meeting with our group members to build each other up in faith. We thank You that we can freely meet to discuss, share and study your word. We have a welcome problem Lord in that we now need to plant another morning group. Please bless us with wisdom and patience as we go through the process of change to formulate the new group.

Father, we thank You for our newly elected Deacons. We thank You for raising up Dominika to lead our Sunday Serving Ministry. We thank You for her serving heart and for the experience in hospitality that she brings to this role. We ask that You would guide her and bless her with wisdom and grace as she organises and oversees this ministry.

Lord You are the most generous Father and we ask You to give us what we need and hope for, according to Your perfect will and as it pleases You.

In Jesus name, Amen

29/05/2026

Today our ministry apprentice, Daniel Goulding, sent out another ministry update sharing some of what God has been teaching him, opportunities he has had in ministry, and ways you can be praying for him and Dominique.

It has been really encouraging to see Daniel growing through the apprenticeship, preaching God’s Word, serving within the life of the church, and learning alongside experienced ministers as he prepares for long-term gospel ministry.

If you would like to read the update, you can find it here:
https://mailchi.mp/2a57f032e12d/an-update-on-my-apprenticeship-18050546

If you would like to receive future updates and prayer points, you are very welcome to sign up here:
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We thank God for the ways he continues to raise up and train workers for gospel ministry, and we are thankful for your prayers and encouragement.

29/05/2026

21/05/2026

We know just how much Mums need fellowship and the refreshing Word of God, so we do everything to accommodate bubs at GROW! 👶🏼

Our venue has ample parking, a private room for feeding, a spacious Mums' lounge, pram parking, and change room facilities.

We encourage Mums to join us in the Auditorium if bub is content, otherwise we will stream the conference into the Mums' rooms so you won't miss out!

Why not invite a Mum along to GROW, or better yet, gift her a ticket so that she has one less thing to remember to do 🤍

18/05/2026

Yesterday we heard Daniel Goulding teach us from Jesus' words in his Sermon on the Mount, about lust. Our mercy deacon, Jill Goulter gave us an update on our ministry of mercy. We prayed for our sister church at Goondiwindi Presbyterian Church. And Jo Mackay led us in her prepared prayers - here they are!

PRAYER OF PRAISE AND CONFESSION

Gracious Father, you are the God who sees us fully and loves us still.
Like the woman at the well, you meet us in the ordinary places of our lives, in our routines, our weariness, our quiet searching, and You speak truth with both honesty and kindness. You are the giver of living water, the One who alone satisfies the deep thirst of our souls. You do not offer shallow comfort or passing pleasure, but fullness of life, true intimacy, and worship in spirit and in truth. And so we praise You— for Your patience, for Your holiness, for Your relentless love that constantly seeks us and draws us near.

Yet Lord, as we come before You, we confess: we are a people who thirst for many things that are not of You. We have created images in our hearts: false promises of satisfaction, things we look to for comfort, worth, escape, or control. We chase after what cannot truly fill us. We confess the ways we have lusted, not only with our eyes, but with our desires, our thoughts, our longings. We have wanted what is not ours to take. We have exchanged what is holy for what is fleeting, chasing earthly desires that draw us away from You and leave us… empty. We have traded living water for broken vessels. Forgive us, Lord. As Jesus teaches us, this is not just a matter of outward action, but of the heart, and our hearts need Your cleansing. So search us, God, and know us. Gently uncover what we have hidden in the dark, and lead us back into the light of what is true.

Turn our eyes away from what is empty. Re-shape our desires. Teach us to hunger for righteousness, to thirst for You above all else. And we praise You for drawing us back, not in shame, but in grace into real intimacy with You. We come to You Father, empty-handed but hopeful, trusting that in Christ we are forgiven, restored, and invited to drink deeply once more.
Amen.

PRAYER OF THANKS AND REQUEST

Gracious Father, we thank You that You are not distant from us,
but near; a God who speaks, who leads, and who invites us to walk in Your ways. Thank You for the words of Jesus, for His gentle rhythms of grace that teach us how to live - not striving to fill ourselves, but learning to rest in You. Thank You that You do not leave us to chase what is empty, but call us again and again, to what is lasting, to what is true, to life with You.

And so we bring before You our church family.

We thank You for this training term, for the ways You are shaping us through Your Word, and we pray for Daniel as he preaches today. We pray he would speak with clarity and faithfulness, and that our hearts would be open to hear, soft to respond, and ready to be changed.

We thank You for our sister church in Goondiwindi. Strengthen and encourage them, Lord. Grow them in unity and love, and sustain their leaders as they serve Your people.

We thank You for the gift of service within our church, and we pray for Jill Goulter as she leads the mercy ministry. Give her compassion, wisdom, and endurance to serve as You have called her. And may we support her well, as she reflects the mercy You have shown to us, that we too might show that same mercy to others. Shape us as a people who care deeply for one another, who reflect Your kindness in practical ways, and who do not turn away from those in need.

We pray for Dave and Daniel this week as they gather at Lake Moogerah with the ministry team to plan for Revelation. Grant them wisdom and discernment. Give them humility before Your Word, clarity in understanding, and unity in purpose, as they prepare to teach what is deep and difficult.

We thank You for the faithful service of our elder Jeff Mackay, and we ask now that You would give him true rest. Restore his strength, refresh his spirit, and grant both him and the Session clarity and compassion as they seek Your wisdom for what lies ahead. We thank you that David Hanna has also taken this opportunity to be restored and refreshed. May his time in rest be fulfilling and nourishing.

We also pray for Dave Bailey as he prepares for annual leave, that it would be a time of attention on his own family and time of joyous celebration... that their family may continue to grow in their faith and relationship with You. And Father, in all of these things we bring before you today, keep drawing us back to what is true. Guard us from chasing what cannot satisfy. Teach us to seek first Your kingdom. Shape us as a people who find our deepest need met in You, and who live together as Your church - not reaching for lesser things, but holding fast to Christ.

We ask all this in Your name, Amen.

10/05/2026

Yesterday we heard from Ben Vickers as he preached his very first sermon: 'Learning to Live Without Anger' from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount'.

Yoliza van Dyk, our Treasury Deacon, also gave us an update on her ministry among us and how we can financially support our ministry as a church.

Daniel Goulding, our Ministry Apprentice, went to preach at Goondiwindi Presbyterian Church with his wife, Dom.

Jeff Mackay led us in his prepared prayers, with Jo Mackay leading us in readings and Mother's Day morning tea!
Here are Jeff's prayers:

PRAYER OF PRAISE AND CONFESSION

Wonderful Heavenly Father, meeting here this morning, we firstly give You all praise for your presence, Your Love and Your desire for relationship with us. We praise You that we can indeed come to You by way of our faith in Your Son Jesus.

Our gracious Lord, we thank you for the privilege of being able to gather here today, belonging to You. We praise You that we can now be considered sons and daughters of the living, eternal God. We are blessed that we live in a place where Your people can freely meet together throughout this country, and we give You praise for being consistent and relevant even amidst our secular society.

We praise You Lord that You are a merciful and gracious God. And we confess to You our bentness toward sin and of ourselves. Very regularly we stray from You and seek our own path. We look toward our own desires and get quite attached to the ways of the world. We use busyness as some kind of screen to distract us from spending time with You. We confess our waywardness and our apathy.

For all our failures and weaknesses and sin, we ask for Your forgiveness.

Thankyou Lord that You are indeed a forgiving God, a God who releases us from disgrace. We pray that You will help us again, to walk with You rather than against You.

And we pray though Your Son…
Our Saviour, Jesus
Amen.

PRAYER OF THANKS AND REQUEST

Lord, we come again in prayer this morning and we want to thank you that we are able to gather here today as Your people. And as we do so Lord, we thank you that as we look to each other, we see You working amongst us.

We thank you for the tradition of honouring mothers and may you help us to do this by our action and words - everyday. We pray for mothers, for upcoming mothers to be and for those women who care well for us through their mothering.

We pray for wisdom in dealing with the need for a potential new bible study group and for the upcoming Dinners for 8.

We thank you for our sister church at Millmerran and pray for each person, the teaching they enjoy, for those who are unwell and for those ministering at Millmerran regularly. We pray for rain in the district and through many parts of QLD currently and for Presbytery in their guidance concerning the Millmerran future.

Lord, we bring before you Yoliza our Treasurer and thank you for her diligence. We pray for Yoliza and her family. We ask that we would continue to trust You and look to You for the finances here.

Lord we pray for Ben as he opens Your Word to us this morning,

In Jesus Name, Amen.