Tag Archives: Thanksgiving

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, our Father, we praise you for reaching out for us and welcoming us home and for making us your sons and daughters; for the rest, refreshment and hope with which you promise to fill our … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, we come with Jesus whose love, compassion and understanding give us hope and assurance of your acceptance. We come with our sin and our shame; we come bringing the things that continually defeat us and … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, you overwhelm us. Your might and majesty are beyond anything we can imagine or create. Your glory is so great it simply cannot be contained. Not even the vast expanse of time and space is … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, we come, called by your love and led by our need, challenged by Christ’s life and aware of our weakness, filled with hope in his death and resurrection, longing to be filled with the power … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, we have heard the good news of the life, death and resurrection of your Son. We have come now to experience its power, to hear your call and to be sent out as disciples of … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: We pray for those whose hopes are dashed and whose lives are filled with ‘might have beens’ and whose memories are clouded with ‘if onlys’; for those who never had a dream or vision and for … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Father, we are your handiwork – you designed us for goodness, love and compassion. You have made us in such a way that we can never be satisfied until we respond with love to your love, … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Wonderful God! How can we not thank you for your extravagant love to us in Christ? We thank you for the way you have made yourself and your purposes known. You did this, not to the … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, we praise you, the one true living God, who fills the whole universe with life, love and meaning. We praise you for your tremendous love which flows to us and into our lives in Christ. … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, your presence lifts us, your grace amazes us, your power overwhelms us and your love excites us. No matter what we bring with us – hurts, sorrows, self-satisfaction, bitterness or joyful praise – you always … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, we pray for those who destroy all that is good; for those whose words destroy hope; for those whose deeds destroy peace; for those whose foolishness destroys hope for others. Lord, we pray for those … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Father, forgive us for being the kind of people we are. We are never satisfied, never content with what we have. So we are ever anxious, often angry, sometimes envious and jealous. We are concerned for … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, as we come before you with thanks and praise, we thank you especially for those whose deeds opened our eyes to your truth, whose words opened our ears to your voice, whose lives opened our … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, you are almighty, gracious and loving. We praise you, not only that he came, but also for the way he came: born as one of us; sharing our life and our limitations of time and … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, we come before you again as an act of worship. Lord, you deserve to be glorified and worshipped. We come to gather up all we have said and done and thought since last we met … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Almighty God, all-loving and gracious, we pray for Christians who allow themselves to be divided from each other by church teaching or their own narrow ideas. Lord, we pray, break down the barriers we build between … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Father, forgive us our half-hearted commitment, the poverty of our worship and the frailty of our faith in Christ. Forgive our lack of hope and trust. Forgive our lack of discipline, and that we need to … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we thank you for men and women who have been like John the Baptist for us; for those who have prepared the way for others to hear you speak, to know … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, you are almighty, all-powerful and all-loving. We praise you, our creator God. You have given us eyes to see the signs of your handiwork. All around us we recognize your fingerprints: in the grandeur of … Continue reading →

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, we come to you with our lives, our thoughts, our hopes and our fears. We come with our plans, our dreams and our memories. We come with our time, our gifts and our skills. We … Continue reading →