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Household Prayers
Prayer is a spiritual exercise that helps build a personal relationship with God. It is also an opportunity to both speak with and listen to God.
Sometimes the words come naturally, sometimes they don't. For the times when they don't, you can find prayers here that you can use. They are related to our Sunday Scripture readings.
Not every prayer will resonate with every person every week. But when they do, they can help each of us build a life of meaning and purpose in relationship with God.
Week of July 15, 2018
Household Prayer: Morning
Creator of light, I greet you as the morning dawns. Thank you for this new day. May it be for me a sign and an anticipation of your coming kingdom. Fill me with the energy I will need to love all whom I meet today. I pray that I harm no one and that I may have the mind of Christ as I live in the world he came to save. Receive my body, mind, and spirit as a living sacrifice of thanksgiving for the love you show me in Jesus Christ.
And where my wholeness is broken by sin or sickness or the weight of the day, let me seek you in repentance, reach out to you for healing, and lay my burdens before your throne of grace. When the time for rest comes, let me find my repose in you, my comfort in life and my hope of life everlasting, through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.
Household Prayer: Evening
Faithful God, where I am now the earth is turning away from the sun so that for other parts of the world, the day is just beginning. Thank you for abiding with us through the day and through the night. As I gather up thoughts of the hours just past and reflect on what, if anything, they mean, guide my meditations.
There were times when you used me
to love someone with Christ’s love,
to encourage someone with a word from the Spirit,
to comfort someone with your tender touch,
to challenge someone with your mighty arm.
Let me not be proud, arrogant, or boastful. Let me rejoice in your goodness and mercy. I have sinned against you and others this day. I am sorry. By your Spirit, help me to turn away from my sins. Forgive me through the grace of Jesus Christ. Let me go to my rest this night in peace, trusting not in my own goodness, but rejoicing in your glory. If it is your will, let me rise to a new day, giving thanks and praise to you, the triune God, now and forever. Amen.
Prayer is a spiritual exercise that helps build a personal relationship with God. It is also an opportunity to both speak with and listen to God.
Sometimes the words come naturally, sometimes they don't. For the times when they don't, you can find prayers here that you can use. They are related to our Sunday Scripture readings.
Not every prayer will resonate with every person every week. But when they do, they can help each of us build a life of meaning and purpose in relationship with God.
Week of July 15, 2018
Household Prayer: Morning
Creator of light, I greet you as the morning dawns. Thank you for this new day. May it be for me a sign and an anticipation of your coming kingdom. Fill me with the energy I will need to love all whom I meet today. I pray that I harm no one and that I may have the mind of Christ as I live in the world he came to save. Receive my body, mind, and spirit as a living sacrifice of thanksgiving for the love you show me in Jesus Christ.
And where my wholeness is broken by sin or sickness or the weight of the day, let me seek you in repentance, reach out to you for healing, and lay my burdens before your throne of grace. When the time for rest comes, let me find my repose in you, my comfort in life and my hope of life everlasting, through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.
Household Prayer: Evening
Faithful God, where I am now the earth is turning away from the sun so that for other parts of the world, the day is just beginning. Thank you for abiding with us through the day and through the night. As I gather up thoughts of the hours just past and reflect on what, if anything, they mean, guide my meditations.
There were times when you used me
to love someone with Christ’s love,
to encourage someone with a word from the Spirit,
to comfort someone with your tender touch,
to challenge someone with your mighty arm.
Let me not be proud, arrogant, or boastful. Let me rejoice in your goodness and mercy. I have sinned against you and others this day. I am sorry. By your Spirit, help me to turn away from my sins. Forgive me through the grace of Jesus Christ. Let me go to my rest this night in peace, trusting not in my own goodness, but rejoicing in your glory. If it is your will, let me rise to a new day, giving thanks and praise to you, the triune God, now and forever. Amen.
Prayers reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from
Feasting on the Word ® Worship Companion. Copyright 2013.
Feasting on the Word ® Worship Companion. Copyright 2013.
