Posts by Manningham UC (Page 4)

Dear Lord. Help me to be a disciple for you. Help me live a life that shows others what it is to experience your grace. Help me not to be afraid to share your good news to those around me. Amen

Dear Lord. Help us to remember that in all things You are there to guide us and challenge us. We pray that we can hear your voice even when we allow the world around us to drown out your message. Amen

Dear Lord. We give praise and thanks for the good things you give us in this earthly life we live; hope, joy, peace and the greatest of these, love. Because we experience Your love for us we can then give love to others. Amen

Father God, at times our life becomes bound up in the past. It’s easy to live in our past, our safe place to go. Encourage us to pause and look to the future through the lens of Hope. Amen

Father God, we struggle with death and its finality. It is so difficult to let go. Encourage us to share with others our grief as expressions of our love for a life well lived. Amen

Father God, create in us a sensitive heart as we share the grief of others and that of ourselves. As we care for others, may we find peace in a God who loves us dearly. Amen

Father God, we become far too anxious about the future. Plant in us the seed of courage so we can live each day by faith in the hope that tomorrow will be a better place for all the peoples. Amen.

Father God, help us to live by the spirit, God’s gift of Hope to his people. May we live out this Hope with others we meet as we engage in the ordinary lives of friends and family. Amen

Insert prayer in herFather God, we give thanks for our families and a safe place to rest. We see the destructive force of torrential rains in different parts of the world. Move us to share what we have with those who have nothing. Amen

Lord please help us when we are spiritually blind, stuck in the ways we have known and blind to a belief and the grace that can free us to love and be loved as Jesus has shown us. Amen

Lord, please give us the eyes to see with clear vision as we think about your gifts and your messages to us. May we find your love and messages in our every day lives, and have the vision to notice. Help us to follow your leading and to focus on sharing your love with others. Amen

Mother/Father God, open our eyes and clear our vision as we try to walk in your ways. As we look with greater purpose may we find your love and example in others, and be surprised in the way your grace is revealed to us. Amen

Lord, may we each have the grace to purposefully stop to examine and illuminate our ways and habits and to think clearly about how we can best follow the teachings of Jesus every day. Amen

Lord, may we value the gift of our bodies and minds and care for them as we are able so we can be ready to respond to your leading and do our best to walk with others. Amen

Lord, may we value the gifts of others when we meet them, striving to see them for the persons that they really are, from all walks of life, and not judging by first perceptions. Amen

Forgiving father, sometimes we divert from what we know is correct. You do not turn us away when we do wrong. Amen.

Provider God, we thank you for continuing to know what we need and your ability to provide for us. Amen

Dear Lord. Help us challenge the socially accepted norms. We are all God’s children. We can all drink from the one well. Amen

Redeeming God, thank you for sending your son to us. Amen