Prayers: a jumble of heart cries & gratitude

Please feel free to add to this
and pray these prayers.
you are loved.

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Lord, revive our weariness and make us effective for your k i n g d o m work

Lord, we repent for our pride, selfishness, ungratefulness, and forgetting you. Deliver us, oh God

Lord, may we know you better and love you more today

Lord, may we not miss the m i r a c l e behind things that are easy to take for granted

Lord, may we find joy in obeying your commands!

Lord, help us take our eyes off our circumstances and keep them on you

Lord, may we choose to fill the garden of our hearts with good things today

Lord, may we take you at your Word – always

Lord, thank you for your k i n d n e s s to us

Lord, create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us (Psalm 51:10)

Lord, may we be utterly overwhelmed by your grace

Lord, help us weep with those who weep, and rejoice with those who rejoice

Lord, may our mouths be filled with your praise! (Psalm 71:8)

Lord, may we worship you d e s p i t e how we feel…because you are worthy

Lord, thank you that when our souls truly remember your character, we are comforted

Lord, align our hearts with your heart

Lord, thank you that you invite us to grieve with you because you are well acquainted with suffering

Lord, may we remember that our battle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual authorities of evil (Ephesians 6:12)

Lord, thank you for deeply caring for us

Lord, teach us how to serve and love with your heart…may we reflect your heart to our neighbour

Lord, thank you that in both the suffering and joy we m e e t

Lord, may our view of you grow so that our response to you will grow!

Lord, may we truly know that you made us fearfully and wonderfully

Lord, make our hearts h o l y places

Lord, thank you for making a way for us to live with you forever…may we never stop celebrating and sharing this good news

Lord, teach us what it looks like to treasure you

Lord, remind us that you want us to run TO you when we sin and not away from you!

Lord, thank you that your every answer to our every prayer is kind

Lord thank you that you enjoy our presence when we spend time with you!

Lord, thank you for equipping us for t h i s moment…and that we were born for such a time as this

Lord, may we work d i l l i g e n t l y with you to become awake to who you are, to who you are in our lives, and to who you created us to be

Lord, remind us that we are living m i r a c l e s…all because of you

Lord, in the midst of our affliction, may our souls remember your promises…because they give us life

Lord, help us surrender e v e r y t h i n g to you…so that you can then be our everything…and show us what this looks like

Lord, show us how you want us to show hospitality to the hurting

Lord, help us be ministers of reconciliation…give us a Christ-centered vision and actions step for it

Lord, remind us that you are our safe place in every moment

Lord, may we remember that your yolk is easy and your burden is l i g h t (Matthew 11:28-29)

Lord, thank you that you are ready to think for us and speak through us in difficult conversations

Lord, thank you that we enter into guaranteed spaces of encounter with you when we invite you in

Lord, thank you that we are secure in your love

Lord, thank you that we have not been given a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7)

Lord, help us to be good listeners

Lord, may we seek wisdom continually!

Lord, may we choose alignment over agreement with the people in our lives

Lord, help us live peaceably with one another and to do what is honourable in the sight of all (Romans 12:17)

Lord, thank you that YOU make our souls well

Lord, give us courage to live in a way that brings you g l o r y and not ourselves

Lord, thank you that you are where the JOY is!

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