Daily Prayers and Prayers for Special Days

Prayer at Daylight

Lord,
as daylight fills the sky,
fill us with your holy light.
May our lives mirror our love for you
whose wisdom has brought us into being,
and whose care guides us on our way.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. AMEN.

Prayer in the Morning

God our Father,
hear our morning prayer
and let the radiance of your love
scatter the gloom of our hearts.
The light of heaven's love has restored us to life;
free us from the desires that belong to darkness.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. AMEN.

Prayer To Be Your Witnesses

God our Savior,
hear our morning prayer:
help us to follow the light
and live the truth.
In you, we have been born again
as sons and daughters of light:
may we be your witnesses before all the world.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. AMEN.
 

Prayer To Begin the Day

God our Father,
yours is the beauty of creation
and the good things you have given us.
Help us to begin this day joyfully in your name
and to spend it in loving service
of you and our fellow man.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. AMEN.
 

Prayer To Spend the Day For Your Glory

God our creator,
you gave us the earth to cultivate
and the sun to serve our needs.
Help us to spend this day
for your glory and our neighbor's good.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. AMEN

Prayers for Sunday

Sunday Morning
My loving God, I thank You for bringing me safely to another day of worship. How I desire to praise You with a pure heart and right spirit! To that end, I again ask Your forgiveness for all my sins and renewing of my faith. As I speak to You today, fill my heart with true praise and thankfulness for all You have done for me. Lead me to appreciate more fully the blessings of worshiping with my fellow Christians. Thank You for the opportunity to pray and study Your Word with other believers. Make me a faithful witness in my congregation and my family so that others will see me leaning only on You, who saved me in Jesus Christ. Amen.

Sunday Evening
As I end this day, I thank You, Lord, for keeping me safe through the daylight hours. I pray that You would also send angels this night to protect me as I sleep. Awaken me tomorrow refreshed and renewed for the duties of the week. I give You heartfelt thanks for the privilege and freedom to worship You today. May your words of refreshment be a guide and a light for my path through the coming week. Bless my family, my friends, and all those I love who are in special need of Your comforting hand. Strengthen me in body and spirit to serve You as I begin another week. All these things I pray in the name of Jesus, my crucified Savior and risen Lord. Amen. 

Prayers for Monday

Monday Morning
You have gathered the solitary into families, O Lord. We thank You for the gift of earthly families and for the joys You have given us in and through our family. We thank You also for Your presence in the midst of the troubles that sometimes plague and disrupt the peace of family life. Grant us the ability to love family members both because of and in spite of what we do for and with each other. Give us insight to know how best to show them Your love and care to share with them the peace and joy You give. Keep us all ever in Your sight and hold us safely in Your hand, that we may belong to You and be joined in everlasting life through the merits of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Monday Evening
For Your gift of joy, we give You thanks, O Lord. You have reclaimed us from the hand of Satan our oppressor and from his power to darken our days with temptation. You come with joy into the midst of our lives even when evil has bruised and battered our spirits. Prevent us from becoming the cause of dissatisfaction or despair, dejection or distress, in the lives of others. Instead, make us instruments to create joy in their lives, so that through the hope and the trust we express in You, others may find a model for their own rejoicing and reason for their own delight in the wonders of Your love. Preserve us and them in the faith that leads us to eternal, perfect joy in Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Prayers for Tuesday

Tuesday Morning
Heavenly Father, You have given us the ability to work with minds and hands. You have fashioned the structures of human society. Through these we care for one another by providing the products and services that fill human life with the temporal blessings You want Your creatures to enjoy. You have called us to serve all people with the labors of our thinking and our doing. We thank You for the satisfaction You have given us in our work. Preserve us from every temptation to use our lives for selfish purposes. Provide a taste of Your love and goodness to those who enjoy the fruits of our labor and, above all, let our lives reflect the forgiveness and joy we possess through Jesus' merit. Amen.

Tuesday Evening
Lord, You came into this earth as our friend and companion, and You continue to sweeten our lives with the gift of human friendship. Your sacrifice for us enables us to forgive friends and to ask for forgiveness, to give strength and to seek strength from them. Strengthen our present friendships and open us to new relationships, in which we may convey Your love, care, and concern to others. Give us discernment to know how to support those we love in troubled times and courage to stand by them in every difficulty. Bless our friends this day with Your presence, support, and favor, and bring us into the circle of friends and family that You gather around Yourself in eternity through Jesus, Your Son. Amen. 

Prayers for Wednesday

Wednesday Morning
We thank You, Lord, for the gift of living in this nation and for blessings You shower on all its citizens. Guide us as we fulfill the duties of citizenship. Let us carry out our civic obligations with gratitude toward You and joy at the privilege of serving others through participation in community and national life. Let us see all kinds of public service - payment of taxes, efforts for local and national improvement, support for responsible political parties and noble causes - as opportunities to give You praise and to meet the needs of others. Grant us wisdom to repent of unwise decisions in the political sphere and discernment to make proper contributions to the common welfare. In Jesus' name, who redeemed us by His cross. Amen.

Wednesday Evening
Lord, You have given us minds and the ability to reason, to think, to learn, to evaluate. In thankfulness let us employ our eyes and ears in observing and listening to the world around us. Help us see Your presence and Your goodness there. Above all, let our minds rest in Your assurances as You speak to us from the pages of Scripture. Guide us to share freely the understanding and insight You give us as part of our dominion under Your creation. Help us enrich the lives of others with the testimony of Your love and forgiveness in Jesus, Your Son. Help us also to learn from the insights into Your Word to which Your Spirit has led us. Amen. 

Prayers for Thursday

Thursday Morning
You gather Your faithful people and Your Word in the community of congregation, Lord. We thank You today for the gift of our congregation and for Your presence and working in our midst. Give all its members wisdom insight, joy and humility, the ability to operate with and support one another. Let the church in our place grow through the growth of Your Word among us, as You strengthen us through the daily renewal of our Baptism, the hearing and sharing of Your Word, the regular reception of absolution and the Lord's Supper. Give us through our congregation a foretaste of the feast to come through Jesus' redemption. Amen.

Thursday Evening
Lord, You have come in human form, Word made flesh, to dwell among us and bring light and life to fallen, defiant human creatures. You have placed the words of life in our mouths and have called us to be bearers of Your Word. Give us the insight to know how we may bring light and life into the lives of those around us. Let our way of living reflect Your mercy and love. Give us the proper words to speak so that our neighbors can understand that life comes alone through Your death and resurrection. Lead them also to trust in You and to cling to You, to find in You alone forgiveness of sins and true and eternal life. Amen. 

Prayers for Friday

Friday Morning
For the riches and fullness of our lives we praise You, O Lord. Your gift of life is precious, and even when surrounded by evils of all kinds, we acknowledge Your goodness to us. This goodness we have experienced in the unbounded mercy You showed us in Your dying and rising for us. We encounter it in the signs of Your presence and care in even the tiniest blessings of daily life. Forgive us our all too frequent failures to recognize Your gift of life in all its many facets. Forgive us for tarnishing the lives of others through thoughtless actions and the hurts we cause them. Instead, make us agents of Your enrichment of their lives and witnesses to Your salvation. Amen.

Friday Evening
In the rhythm of the changing seasons, we see Your blueprint for creation and Your guiding hand, dear Lord. Remind us each day that You bring all living creatures to life and sustain us all in life. We pray to You for good weather throughout the world in this season, for You are lord of clouds and wind, rain and sun. Feed the people for whom You have died, and prosper those for whom You have risen through the blessings of sun and rain, which nourish the earth You have designed to nourish us. Forgive us our frequent grumbling and give us joyful hearts as we observe Your love for us in both the blessings of each day and the assurance of eternal life. Amen. 

Prayers for Saturday

Saturday Morning
Dear Savior, help me remember as I begin my weekend activities. Whether work or leisure will engage me today, keep my thoughts and actions centered on You. Make it a day of contentment for me, no matter if the activities I face are pleasant or tedious. Keep me through the Holy Spirit from willful sins and from those sins I do not even realize I am committing. Help me be a positive influence in others' lives as I go my way. Let my inner rejoicing in Your salvation be evident in all I say and do so that I bring glory and not shame to Your most holy name. Amen.

Saturday Evening
Tonight, Lord, I confess to You my sins and ask Your forgiveness for the many times I have offended You during the past week. Thank You for carrying for all those sins and for bearing the weight of them. Work in me true repentance with the strength to turn away from sin. Give me peaceful rest tonight so that I can arise refreshed to worship You tomorrow. Help me give You all glory in the week to come, no matter what You have planned for me. Grant me patience to take one day at a time and the faith to put all things into Your hands. In Your name I ask it. Amen. 

Prayers for Ash Wednesday and Lent

Ash Wednesday
Today, Lord, we begin our long walk with You to the cross. May the ashes that symbolize this day remind us of our sin and unworthiness before a holy God. Give us a spirit of penitent reflection on our sins. Enable us to recognize that we are unable to work out our own salvation. Fill our hearts, not with despair, but with thankfulness to You who saw our need and sent Your Son to save us. Make our journey to the cross a time of deepened faith and renewed commitment to You and Your Word. We ask these things in the name of the Lamb, our Savior, who came to take away the sins of the world. Amen.

Prayer for Lent
Dear Savior, I pray that this season of Lent be a time of spiritual blessing for me. As I remember Your trial before Pilate, the indignities and pain You endured, Your torturous walk to the cross, and the shame and horror of Calvary, may I be reminded that You chose to walk this path because of Your all - consuming love for me. I can never repay You for the salvation You bought with Your blood. Help me, through the workings of the Holy Spirit, to offer my life to You in thankfulness and rejoicing for the life You so willingly gave for me. In Your name as my crucified Savior I pray. Amen. 

Prayer for Palm Sunday

Lord Jesus, triumphant King, You traveled the course revealed by the Prophet Zechariah when You entered Jerusalem and were welcomed. Just as they identified You as the One who came to complete His plan of rescue and restoration for humankind, let us acknowledge You as Lord and Savior. Send us to speak Your Word to others that they may join us in singing, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" Enable us to identify You to them as the One who saves us from sin and every evil. Renew each day our delight in being among those who praise You with our whole lives. Amen.  

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