Lord, hear our prayer:

Lord, we have heard of all that you have done in and through the lives of your people – down the centuries and across the world. You have touched and changed people’s whole way of living; you have made people new. We have come to worship you, to be changed by you, to become the people you always meant us to be. Let it happen, Lord, even though we are afraid of change and resist any alteration of our way of life. Challenge us and change us and fill us with such an awareness of you and your presence that nothing, not even our own hearts and lives, can ever be the same again.

Amen.

Some minor adaptation on some prayers.
David Clowes, 500 Prayers For All Occasions © 2003 by David C Cook Publishing
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