Prayer for the Day
A prayer that we may give welcome to others
Dear Lord, we come to you in prayer, seeking your guidance to help us to continue to make our churches places of welcome and acceptance.
We know so many people of all ages are lonely and long to belong.
We want to build church families of all ages, who worship together with joy.
We need always to put prayer at the heart of all our planning and action.
Help us to sing a new song that tells of your love, by always listening and learning to become receptive to new ideas that translate into loving action in our neighbourhoods. Amen.
Alternative Prayer for the Day
A prayer that God's grace may work through us
Be the beginning, O God, of all our good, the wellspring of all our love and the source of all our freedom. Let your grace work in us, your will be done through us and your protection be over us. Amen.
A prayer of thanks for hidden treasures
I wonder…
Why you, Lord, choose to hide your treasures and to invite us to join in the divine ‘hide and seek’?
Why you, Jesus, choose darkness as the place where the richness of your light shines most strongly, most resolutely?
Why you, Spirit, choose to summon us by name – speaking into our lives with such intimacy and love?
Perhaps, Three-in-One,
you delight to find us seeking;
you enjoy the powerful impact of even the smallest of lights, piercing the deepest darkness;
you intend for us to know your voice, follow your promptings and to bear witness to your name.
Thank you for revealing your hiddenness, illuminating our darkness, and enabling us to know how much you have treasured us. Amen.
Philip Gough, District Chair, Lancashire District
Thursday 08 October 2009
"But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings." (4:2a)
Malachi 3:13 – 4:2a