Lord, hear our prayer:

Lord, we come as we are. We make no pretense. We come acknowledging the weakness, poverty and emptiness of our lives. We come confessing our failed attempts to change our lives and our determination to be different, which has come to nothing. We come, asking that by your grace we can be made strong and that through your power we can be made new. We come in our weakness, that in you we might be made strong and that we might give you all the glory. We know that in Christ alone, we are made strong.

Amen.

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