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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 21, 2019
Household Prayer: Morning
God, we have too many things to do today! Help us to see you in everything we do, in everything we say. Help us to take a deep breath and to remember that the Holy Spirit is inside us, with us, around us. Help us to pause and drink a glass of water, and to remember our baptism, and the covenant you have established, making us your children. Help us to study your Word, and not to think just of the past, but also of how you act in the present. And help us to work for and with our brothers and sisters, giving kindness, sharing hope, and living out the faith you have given us. Amen.
Household Prayer: Evening
Today, O Lord, we have sat at your feet and listened to your words. We have been empowered by your teachings. What should we do with all this life that you have provided? We will go out into the world, after a restful night, and serve, and smile, and love, and work, and play, forgive, and shout out, and sing, . . . doing everything in your name! 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 21, 2019
Household Prayer: Morning
God, we have too many things to do today! Help us to see you in everything we do, in everything we say. Help us to take a deep breath and to remember that the Holy Spirit is inside us, with us, around us. Help us to pause and drink a glass of water, and to remember our baptism, and the covenant you have established, making us your children. Help us to study your Word, and not to think just of the past, but also of how you act in the present. And help us to work for and with our brothers and sisters, giving kindness, sharing hope, and living out the faith you have given us. Amen.
Household Prayer: Evening
Today, O Lord, we have sat at your feet and listened to your words. We have been empowered by your teachings. What should we do with all this life that you have provided? We will go out into the world, after a restful night, and serve, and smile, and love, and work, and play, forgive, and shout out, and sing, . . . doing everything in your name! 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.
