Prayer for the Day
A prayer for our obedience to God's will
Holy and unfathomable God, Blessed Trinity, by your grace you have called your people to be a holy nation, a royal priesthood. Draw us more deeply into the Paschal mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus, our Great High Priest, that our intercessory prayers for the world and all its people may be obedient to your divine will.
May the worship, fellowship and service of the Church faithfully proclaim the story of your redemptive purposes from the beginning of creation. Through our lives and by our prayers may your kingdom come, and all things be gathered into Christ. Amen.
Alternative Prayer for the Day
A prayer for our evangelism
Grant us grace, O God, to be interpreters of your beauty, narrators of your glory, confessors of your purpose, preachers of your mind and teachers of your works; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
A prayer of thanks for song in our lives and hearts
What song shall I sing today?
What prayer shall I pray today?
Abide with me, O Love Divine.
Thank you, God, for music and song in our hearts and lives.
I pray to you every new morning,
anticipating what might lie ahead.
I pray to you in the afternoon,
thinking of family and friends.
I pray to you in the evening,
repeating “Thank you, God” for life in all its richness,
remembering all who cannot sing or pray
because of pain and sorrow in their lives.
What song shall I sing tomorrow?
What prayer shall I pray tomorrow?
Pamela Stenson, President, Methodist Women in Britain, Darlington District
Friday 11 August 2017
“So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord—the King of Israel!’” (v. 13)
John 12:12-19