Tags: prayer

• my earnest prayer….

  I want my behaviour to be consistent; I want my initiatives to be creative; I want my teaching to be truthful. I want my compassion to be real; I want my heart to (always) be tender; I want my word to be reliable; I want my gifts to be available; I want my emotions to be stable; I want my attitude to be suitable; I want my life to be reproducible; I want my work to be sustainable; I want [...]

• what a vision: what a prayer….?

  Beautiful prayer from Richard Rohr: ” O Loving God, we thank you for bringing us the rivers and streams of this world. May the rivers we know be an image of the stream that you want to flow within each one of us. Teach us now, take away all fear, dare to let us believe that we could really be a small part of a reconstructed society, that we could build again. Take away our own cynicism. Take away our [...]

• help me

  ” Lord, help me to glorify you. I am poor; help me to glorify you by contentment. I am sick; help me to give you honour by patience. I have talents; help me to exalt you by spending them for you. I have a heart to feel, Lord; let that heart feel no love but yours, and glow with no flame but affection for you.  I have a head to think, Lord; help me to think of you and for [...]

• my bathroom mirror & prayer

  Speaking out these words from a  post-it-notelet each morning, really helps clear my mind, deepen my surrender and increase my joy! ” 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, Saviour 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 [...]

• Lent begins….

  Here’s the words and wisdom of Henri Nouwen in a prayer:- “The Lenten season begins. It is a time to be with you, Lord, in a special way, a time to pray, to fast, and thus to follow you on your way to Jerusalem, to Golgotha, and to the final victory over death. I am still so divided. I truly want to follow you, but I also want to follow my own desires and lend an ear to the voices [...]

• great prayer for today….

  Loving God, Help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and worship of the wise men.Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world. Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting. Deliver us from evil by the blessing which Christ brings, and teach us to be merry with clear hearts. May the Christmas morning make [...]

• lent 14

  A prayer from Ambrose of Milan: 3rd Century. “Lord Jesus Christ, you are for me medicine when I am sick. you are strength, when I need help; you are life itself, when I fear death; you are the way, when I long for heaven; you are the light, when all is dark; you are my food, when I need nourishment.”

• lent 11

  ‘The hard truth is that most Christians don’t pray very much. They pray at meals-unless they’re still stuck in the adolescent stage of calling good habits legalism. They whisper prayers before tough meetings. They say something brief as they crawl into bed. But very few set aside set times to pray alone-and fewer still think it is worth it to meet with others to pray. And we wonder why our faith is weak. And our hope is feeble. And our [...]

• lent 8

  Wild beasts came to Jesus in the wilderness. Whatever ‘wild beasts’ come to you today, take to prayer about them. Be still. Remain in prayer. Be still. For this silence and battle in prayer is one of the most beautiful secrets of the spiritual life. Solitude, silence and prayer makes for the stuff of a great soul.