These prayers appeared as sidebars among the theme articles of Issue 41 – Divine Prayer Partners
We thank you, dear heavenly Father,
That every morning your grace comes fresh and new. Today also you quicken us with your inexhaustible power of life. Eternal God, we sing your praise now and forever. Lord Jesus Christ,
You are the spring that stills our thirst for life. We thank you with our hearts and mouths and hands. God, Holy Spirit, come,
Open our hearts, open our mouths, open our hands, that we might magnify God’s name with our thoughts, our words, and our courageous acts, singing a new song before all the world!
—Eberhard Jungel
Good morning heavenly Father,
good morning Lord Jesus,
good morning Holy Spirit.
Heavenly Father, I worship you as the creator and sustainer of the universe.
Lord Jesus, I worship you, Savior and Lord of the world.
Holy Spirit, I worship you, sanctifier of the people of God. Glory to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Heavenly Father, I pray that I may live this day in your presence
and please you more and more. Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you. Holy Spirit, I pray that this day you will fill me with yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, three persons in one God,
have mercy upon me. Amen.
—John Stott
Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth: Set up your kingdom in our midst. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God: Have mercy on us sinners. Holy Spirit, Breath of the Living God: Renew us and all the world.
– N.T. Wright
Now, to God the Father, who first loved us, and made us accepted in the Beloved;
to God the Son, who loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood;
to God the Holy Ghost, who sheddeth the love of God abroad in our hearts,
be all love and all glory in time and to all eternity.
Amen.
—John Wesley
Almighty God, heavenly Father,
You awakened your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, from death. From the confines of the grave you have made a new humanity; from the darkness of death you have brought new life to light. For this we thank you. For this we praise you. Glory to you in all eternity!
Lord Jesus Christ,
You swallowed up death in victory and gave that victory to us wretched ones, to us who have failed. We glorify you and pray: lead us out of the confines, out of the prisons of our daily lives, and take us into your realm of freedom. Make us free, here and now and always.
God, Holy Spirit,
Make wide the world’s gates, lift up its doors, so that this world might be touched and renewed by your power. Open also our own hearts, our minds, and our understanding that we can mutually discover one another, understand one another, learn love and respect.
– Eberhard Jungel
Through the dark hours of this night
protect and surround us,
Father, Son and Spirit, Three.
Forgive the ill that we have done.
Forgive the pride that we have shown.
Forgive the words that have caused harm
that we might sleep peaceably,
and rise refreshed to do your will.
Through the dark hours of this night
protect and surround us,
Father, Son and Spirit, Three.
—Celtic blessing
God For Us, we call You Father,
God Alongside Us, we call You Jesus, God Within Us, we call You Holy Spirit. You are the Eternal Mystery
That enables, enfolds, and enlivens all things, Even us, and even me. Every name falls short of your Goodness and Greatness. We can only see who You are in what is. We ask for such perfect seeing. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. Amen.
—Richard Rohr
