Prayer for the Day
A prayer that we may give welcome to others
Dear Lord, we come to you in prayer, seeking your guidance to help us to continue to make our churches places of welcome and acceptance.
We know so many people of all ages are lonely and long to belong.
We want to build church families of all ages, who worship together with joy.
We need always to put prayer at the heart of all our planning and action.
Help us to sing a new song that tells of your love, by always listening and learning to become receptive to new ideas that translate into loving action in our neighbourhoods. Amen.
Alternative Prayer for the Day
A prayer that God's grace may work through us
Be the beginning, O God, of all our good, the wellspring of all our love and the source of all our freedom. Let your grace work in us, your will be done through us and your protection be over us. Amen.
A prayer for encouragement
Come, Holy Spirit. Come near to us and bless our prayer. Refresh, renew and fill us that we might receive our calling anew. Teach us patience that we might reflect your patient love as we seek to sing a new song so that in all things we might give glory to God, through Christ and in the power of the Spirit. Encourage us and fill us with hope for the future that with warmed hearts, fresh harmonies and renewed hands and voices we might pour ourselves out in love for others as you have poured out your love for us in Christ. Come, Holy Spirit. Come, Lord, come.
Richard Andrew, Chair, Darlington District
Friday 14 April 2017
“He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and held him of no account.” (v. 3)
Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12