Prayer for the Day
A prayer that God's story be our story
Story-telling God,
as you gathered the crowds in Galilee,
and stretched the imaginations of the affluent and defeated,
enter our world today.
Where the lonely stare at screens,
and deception comes via glamourous lies,
when we cultivate the ethos of insiders and outsiders –
speak into our hearts the depths of your love story.
A story of grace, hope and beautiful mercy.
A story of joy-filled expectation.
A story of new beginnings.
A story of hope.
Enable us to make love real.
May your story be our story.
Our end, our beginning and our whole life’s journey. Amen.
Alternative Prayer for the Day
A contemplative breath prayer
“And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:24-25
(Breathe in) Fill us with abundant love.
(Breathe out) That we might build each other up.
A prayer that we may lose ourselves in God
Let us be lost in your will, O God, lost in the doing of it, lost in the presence of your Spirit, lost in your redeeming love and lost in you forever. Amen.
Mary Porteous, Primitive Methodist itinerant (1783-1861)
Tuesday 05 December 2023
And how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven. (vs 9-10)
1 Thessalonians 1:8-10A prayer for Black History Month 2024
Norman Mullings MBE marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the ship Empire Windrush to the UK.