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Prayer in the time of coronavirus
We continue to pray for all healthcare workers. Hospitals and senior living facilities are tightening up outside visitors and healthcare workers are seeing an added stress in this time.
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A Prayer of Self-Dedication
Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to you, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so control our wills, that we may be wholly yours, utterly dedicated to you; and then use us, we pray, as we will, and always to your glory and the welfare of your people; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.…
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Praying the Great Litany — Confession
I have much to learn about the Book of Common Prayer as an Anglican. One great help I have found in my prayer life is the Great Litany. It helps order my prayers on a daily basis.
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The practice of devoting yourself to prayer
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. (Col. 4:2) There is a call the Lord keeps putting in front of me in regards to prayer. It is the great invitation to walk in prayer. Through the years I have had the Spirit bring many tools into my life to assist in this desire to walk in prayer. I don’t…
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To pray for leaders
From the Great Litany in the Book of Common Prayer (2019): “That it may please you to rule the hearts of your servant, President Trump, and all others in authority, that they may do justice, and show mercy, and walk humbly before you, we beseech you to hear us, good Lord.”
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Lord, help me live in faithfulness
Mortality strikes close to home in my life this week as I reflect on the death of a friend from college. He served in ministry as a pastor and a missionary. My own life is but a breath. A PrayerGive me, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy thought can drag down; an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can…
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Reason #18 why I’m glad I’ve become Anglican
In this journey along the Canterbury Trail I’ve thought of so many reasons why the Lord has led me to this place.
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Daily prayers
There are days when the prayers of others help me in my personal praying. I am finding this discipline far more helpful as the years go by. Prayer for Mission: O God, you have made of one blood all the peoples of theearth, and sent your blessed Son to preach peace to thosewho are far off and to those who…
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