Prayers

Discover prayers for different topics, themes, events, occasions and days of the month. These are for reference and use in planning services and events.

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A prayer for today

Read prayers for today, as written by Methodists from across the world.

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A prayer that we share the gifts of God

26 Mar 2024

Gracious and loving God, we thank you for those treasures we have from you

A prayer for watchfulness

26 Mar 2024

May we watch for you, O Lord, in the storm

A prayer for God's light in the darkness

25 Mar 2024

Creator God, you separated light and darkness giving us the precious gifts of day and night.

A prayer for the reign of Christ

25 Mar 2024

Come and reign, O Christ, in our home and its life

A prayer when we are exhausted

24 Mar 2024

Loving God, you remind us in your Bible that when we find it difficult to pray the “Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words” (Romans 8:26).

A prayer for unending praise of God

24 Mar 2024

Day and night, we confess your name, O Lord, and proclaim your glory.

A prayer that we will seek for God

23 Mar 2024

Holy God, you are our greatest treasure, may we search you out in the darkness of our pain and in our light-filled joy, and in the everyday ordinariness of our lives.

A prayer of rejoicing

23 Mar 2024

Today, O God, may we drink from the cup of your salvation

A prayer for patience and courage in a bewildering world

22 Mar 2024

Eternal God, we seek clarity and reassurance in a bewilderingly complex world.

A prayer for freedom

22 Mar 2024

God of the slave, hope of the captive

A prayer of thanks for hidden treasures

21 Mar 2024

I wonder…
Why you, Lord, choose to hide your treasures and to invite us to join in the divine ‘hide and seek’?