#MorningPrayer Monday 1st April 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Give us vision, Lord, 

that we may know and understand 

your will for us; 

give us hearts for your kingdom, 

that we may seek and desire 

to follow your call upon our lives; 

give us compassion and humility, 

that we may welcome 

the difference and diversity 

among your people.

#MorningPrayer Sunday 31st March 2019 - Laetare Sunday / Mothering Sunday

#MorningPrayer 

As the mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings, Lord, 

so do you hold us close. 

In the vagaries of life, may we stay close to you, 

and offer a mothering love to one another and to the world, 

that all may be nurtured, valued, nourished and protected 

in your love.

#MorningPrayer Saturday 30th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Keep us faithful to you, Lord, as you keep faith with us. 

Let us not go after the false gods of this world, 

but stay true to you and our vocation to be your people. 

May our comfort in ‘the way we do things here’ 

never keep us from hearing your call and doing your will.

#MorningPrayer Friday 29th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Lord, you reveal yourself to us 

in ways we can understand, 

most supremely in your incarnation. 

You show us what true life looks like 

and win it for us. 

You wait to welcome us 

before even we turn to you, 

and embrace us when we do. 

Help us to live in, and from, your love.

#MorningPrayer Thursday 28th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Keep us attentive Lord, 

to your voice speaking into our own lives, 

and use us to help others to hear your voice 

as you call, encourage, challenge and lead us in all we do. 

May we embrace you as you have embraced us, 

and truly live as one people with one God and Father

#MorningPrayer Wednesday 27th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Fill us with your grace Lord, 

that we may always hold fast to you, 

and not place our trust in anything else. 

May we hear your word, know your voice, 

and heed your call upon our lives, 

and remain always open 

to your leading, your challenge, 

your guidance, and your blessing.

#MorningPrayer Tuesday 26th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

You teach us Lord, 

not to give in to the human desire 

to search for scapegoats when things go wrong, 

but instead to examine ourselves, 

and turn from our part in the sinfulness of the world. 

Give us understanding of how we need to change, 

and courage to act upon it.

#MorningPrayer Monday 25th March 2019 - The Annunciation

#MorningPrayer 

Lord, by your grace and love, 

not by anything we have earned, 

you invite us to be part of your life and your kingdom, 

to be adopted into your family, 

to be citizens of your heavenly city. 

Like Mary, may we say our “YES!” 

to your invitation, your love, and your call.

#MorningPrayer Sunday 24th March 2019 - Lent 3

#MorningPrayer 

Help us, Lord, to love you with all that we are, 

and though we are in the world, to be not of the world. 

May we remain people of your kingdom 

by loving you with all our heart, mind, soul & strength - 

and by letting that love flow through us and out to all.

#MorningPrayer Saturday 23rd March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Forgive us, Lord, 

for we know that you are the Messiah, the Christ, 

and yet we so often act as though you are less, 

and we leave you behind in church or in our prayers. 

Rather, may we stay with you in daily life, 

and allow you to transform all that we are and do.

#MorningPrayer Friday 22nd March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Lord, when we fall into the temptation 

to make our own gods 

out of people, or things, or systems, or ideas, 

forgive us and call us back to you, the one true God, 

and to your kingdom - 

help us remember that all things come from you, 

and seek to honour you in all things.

#MorningPrayer Thursday 21st March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Keep us, Lord, from becoming self-satisfied - 

whether about the wisdom we think we have, 

or the power and strength we think we have, 

or the wealth we think we have. 

Turn us from a worldly perspective on such things, 

and instead let us focus on what we have in you.

#MorningPrayer Wednesday 20th March 2019 - St Cuthbert

#MorningPrayer 

Lord, in the face of what is not right and just in our world, 

may we truly be those who mourn, 

who mind the gap between what is and what should be: 

may we be ready to speak truth 

to ourselves, to each other and to power, 

and work for justice and peace 

as your love directs.

#MorningPrayer Tuesday 19th March 2019 - St Joseph

#MorningPrayer 

Lord, may we never grow so blasé in our faith 

that we domesticate you 

and cease to be challenged and stirred by your gospel; 

instead, keep us fresh & focused on your kingdom, 

working with you to bring justice, peace & mercy to bear, 

that all may know you & your love.

#MorningPrayer Monday 18th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Lord Jesus, Bread of Life, 

nourish us in your love and mercy, 

encourage and enable us for our pilgrimage through life; 

grant that as we journey on together, 

with you as our strength and guide, 

your life may flow through us, and out to others, 

that all may know your love.

#MorningPrayer Sunday 17th March 2019 - Lent 2

#MorningPrayer 

You are the vine, Lord, 

and we the branches; 

you graft us into yourself 

that we may become part of your body 

and bear fruit for your kingdom. 

May your life course through us, 

bringing us to life. 

May your love flow through us, 

helping us to love, 

that all may flourish.

#MorningPrayer Saturday 16th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Jesus, Bread of Life, 

nourish and sustain us 

on our pilgrimage of faith; 

expand and deepen our love for you 

as we journey on together - 

and through that love for you, 

may we find a deep love for one another, 

that none may be excluded, 

but all embraced and welcomed as yours.

#MorningPrayer Friday 15th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Lord, keep us from seeking you 

only for what we can get out of you, 

or what you can do for our comfort; 

instead, help us to follow you 

with all that we are, 

seeking your kingdom, 

your calling, 

your challenge to us 

to walk our pilgrim path with you, 

in faith & love.

#MorningPrayer Thursday 14th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Lord, you commission us to glean your harvest

and to gather up the fragments, 

that nothing may be lost. 

Save us from doing only what pleases us; 

give us a desire to follow and fulfil your will. 

May those the world sees as marginal 

be drawn to the centre of your love.

#MorningPrayer Wednesday 13th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Turn our hearts towards you, Lord, 

as we journey through life. 

Let our focus be not on ourselves, and what we want, 

and what brings us worldly wealth, or power, or comfort; 

rather let our focus be you, and your kingdom, 

as we receive and respond truly to your love.

#MorningPrayer Tuesday 12th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

You are faithful, Lord, 

despite our often faithlessness. 

When we forget you, 

or fix on and follow other ‘gods’, 

you do not abandon us, 

but rather you search us out 

and seek to lead us home to you. 

Help us see always 

that true joy and blessing 

is found in you alone.

#MorningPrayer Monday 11th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

You reach out to us in grace and mercy, Lord, 

healing, reconciling, forgiving, loving; 

you draw us into relationship with you, 

overcoming the obstacles of the Law and our sin. 

Help us remember 

that you are greater than the barriers we erect,

and you welcome and embrace us.

#MorningPrayer Sunday 10th March 2019 - Lent 1

#MorningPrayer 

You call us to follow you, Lord, 

and to taste the wonderful vintage of your kingdom. 

Help us to follow where you lead, 

and to rise to your challenge 

to do justice, love kindness, 

and walk humbly with you, our God. 

May all people see in us the fruit of your Spirit.

#MorningPrayer Saturday 9th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Word of God, 

you go forth 

and the universe is created; 

Word incarnate, 

you speak a word 

and people are healed, restored to you. 

Word of the Spirit, 

you speak to us, 

to guide, to bless, 

to challenge, to encourage. 

Word of life, 

help us trust in you, 

and heed your call.

#MorningPrayer Friday 8th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Lord Jesus, 

you engaged with people of all kinds, 

including those that the culture and the Law 

said you shouldn’t. 

Help us to see that in you 

there is no Jew/Gentile, 

no male/female, 

no slave/free, etc - 

but simply people, loved by you. 

Help us to love one another.

#MorningPrayer Thursday 7th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

You, Lord, see into our lives 

and know our stories, warts and all - 

yet you show us love and mercy, 

grace and forgiveness, 

Help us to examine our lives, 

offer all that is wrong to you in repentance, 

and open ourselves to be filled 

with your healing love & new life.

#MorningPrayer Ash Wednesday 6th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Strengthen us, Lord, 

that we may pursue only the things of your kingdom, 

and allow you to transform us into your likeness. 

Give us courage to shoulder our cross 

and follow where you lead, 

that we may lay hold of true life 

and become loci of blessing for the world.

#MorningPrayer Shrove Tuesday 5th March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Keep us always mindful, Lord, 

of who you are 

and what you have done for us. 

May we keep our focus on you, 

and help others turn their focus onto you. 

Whenever we are tempted 

to be self-centred and self-focused, 

remind us of this word: 

“He must increase, and I must decrease”.

#MorningPrayer Monday 4th March 2019

‪#MorningPrayer 
Lord, you know us and love us 
from the dawn to the end of time; 
you desire to bless, not to condemn; 
you call us to be yours 
and to share in your work of healing the world, 
despite our perplexities and fears. 
Be with us today 
as we seek to follow you and reveal your love.‬

#MorningPrayer Sunday 3rd March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

Help us Lord, to know who we are in you: 

your children, members of your family, 

brothers and sisters in Christ. 

Help us to live that truth, 

and to bring others to see you and know your love, 

that we may share together 

in the glorious liberty of the children of God.

#MorningPrayer Saturday 2nd March 2019

#MorningPrayer 

In your resurrection, Lord, 

the wounds you carried showed to Thomas and others 

that you were risen indeed. 

Let us never be ashamed of your wounds or our own, 

but allow them to deepen our faith and our life in you - 

for you carry them, and us, into new life.