Prayer Resources

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Daily Prayer Resources

From the Methodist Prayer Handbook, a Prayer for Today

Quarterly Prayer Card

Developed by the Nurturing Faith Mission Group , the quarterly prayer card provides a focus for the quarter.

Weekly Prayer Resources

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Friday 27th February
The next time you open your fridge, why not pray this little prayer:
Generous God,
Thank you for the blessings you have given me, and the food for this day.
Thank you for all the work of creation, all the work of farmers and supermarket workers and delivery drivers that means this food can be here, in my house.
Thank you for all that I have received.
Thank you. Amen.

Saturday 28th February
Take time to find something in your home that you hold as precious and important. It may be a photograph, a flower or personal item. Whatever you choose consider:

• What is it that makes it important to you?
• What memories does it hold?
• How do you feel about it and what would happen if you lost it?

Now imagine that God is holding you as precious and important:

• Loving and caring for you and your unique character
• Following your journey of faith
• Wanting never to lose you
• Bring all that to prayer, knowing that whatever you offer in this moment is precious and important.

Monday 2nd March
Take 5 small slips of paper.
Imagine you are trying to explain to a small child what the nature of God is. Write a word or phrase that comes to mind on each of the 5 slips of paper.
Now look back at your slips next to one another. Are there any other words you would use that you haven’t already used here? How might you explain these to a small child?

Tuesday 3rd March
Today is celebrated as the feast day for John and Charles Wesley by the Episcopal Church in the USA, a reminder that the Wesleys continue to be recognised and celebrated by many different Christian denominations.
Perhaps today your prayers could be for unity, reconciliation (where it is needed) and joined up thinking between different parts of the Christian church – may we find fresh energy to work together, in Jesus’ name.

Wednesday 4th March
Today is marked in some traditions as the feast day of Felix of Rhuys, a hermit and abbot who opened an abbey in Brittany in Northern France.
As our thoughts turn to these ancient spots of peace and prayer, may we seek to be places of safety and connection in our own communities: may our churches, our homes, our lives, become modern monasteries and abbeys.

Thursday 5th March
Breathe on me, O Holy Sprit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
God, we are sorry for the times that we have held other things as more important than you.
For when our thoughts have been mean or selfish or greedy, we ask for your forgiveness.
Thank you, God, that through you we are forgiven, and given the chance to start afresh.

Friday 6th March
As we move into the season of Spring, as new life begins appearing all around us, today I give thanks for the gifts of creation, for the signs of hope and possibility.
Amongst all that is difficult, all that is painful, all that is uncertain, come Lord Jesus, and use the gifts that I have in your service, may they be used for your Kingdom here on earth.

Saturday 7th March
On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was given a patent for his new invention – the telephone.
All these years later, he could surely not have imagined the development of ‘phones, into the multimedia tools they are today.
As you pray today, give thanks for all the ways we are now connected around the world, and pray for wisdom and grace to guide us as we work out how to use them as a blessing not a burden or an addiction.