Daily Reading for Sunday, October 6th, 2013

Gospel, Luke 17:5-10

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith.'

⁶ The Lord replied, 'If you had faith like a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea," and it would obey you.

⁷ 'Which of you, with a servant ploughing or minding sheep, would say to him when he returned from the fields, "Come and have your meal at once"?

⁸ Would he not be more likely to say, "Get my supper ready; fasten your belt and wait on me while I eat and drink. You yourself can eat and drink afterwards"?

⁹ Must he be grateful to the servant for doing what he was told?

¹⁰ So with you: when you have done all you have been told to do, say, "We are useless servants: we have done no more than our duty." '

Reading 2, Second Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14

⁶ That is why I am reminding you now to fan into a flame the gift of God that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

⁷ God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but the Spirit of power and love and self-control.

⁸ So you are never to be ashamed of witnessing to our Lord, or ashamed of me for being his prisoner; but share in my hardships for the sake of the gospel, relying on the power of God

¹³ Keep as your pattern the sound teaching you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ With the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, look after that precious thing given in trust.

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