Prayer card

General:
Hymns as prayer

The Methodist Church prayer card, Hymns for Personal Prayer, is available to download as a PDF. (Printed cards are no longer in stock.)

The card offers a selection of hymns included in Singing the Faith suitable for spoken, private prayer. They are listed under headings borrowed from the hymn book's own section headings:

    • Prayers of praise and thanksgiving
    • Morning and evening
    • The Holy Scriptures
    • Prayers of petition
    • Prayers of response

Also included are details about further resources that you may helpful for your personal prayer time:

Methodist Prayer Handbook
A Word in Time (daily online Bible studies)

Day by day, dear Lord,
of thee three things I pray:
to see they more clearly,
to love thee morew dearly,
to follow thee more nearly,
day by day. (StF 444)

Pain and passion – the hymns of William Cowper
Psalms for today