Prayer for Friday

Great God and Savior, You want to lead us by the hand so that in communion with You we learn how to live a true and abundant life. We thank You for everything we have already received and for those things You have promised. Guide us still, we pray. Through Your Holy Spirit lead us in all areas of our life. Grant us the Spirit, Who can illumine our hearts to help us find new courage and new strength and new recognition of the truth. All our praise belongs to You, for You alone can quicken us. You alone free us from the fear and pain of death and from all burdens, so that in spite of toil and struggle our hearts, our minds, our praises may always be lifted up to You, our God on high, to the glory of Your name on earth and for the sake of Your Holy Kingdom. We beseech You and glorify You, in the name of Jesus, most high.

Amen.

Adapted from the Daily Written Prayers of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, 1842–1919. In Public Domain