Showing posts with label Lord's Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lord's Prayer. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

We Won't Be Shaken (Prayer for Forgiveness)

Father, forgive me of my lack of trust in you in times of overwhelm and weary of the woes present to me.
May I remember who I am in Christ.
May I remember your kingdom.
Father, may your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give me this day as my day of rest and reflection in you. Catch up my study of your Word.
Forgive me, Father, and help me forgive my family, my church, and the torment of my boring work.
I pray and thank you for the opportunities that you provide at work, so I can learn and remember your grace and mercy. And remember why I am where I am. Teach me to worship you at work. Help me to make you known at work, at home, and at church.
Create in me a pure heart and renew a right spirit within me.
Father, set me an example in faith, in speech, in love, and in purity.
I am not my own. I don't own my thoughts and my mind and my heart. I don't own anything that is present in me. I am yours. You own me. Father, help me.
Father, yours is your kingdom, your power, your glory.
Forever and ever. Amen.


Sunday, October 21, 2012

Unless the Lord builds, those who labor, labor in vain (Prayer for Work)

 1 (Unless the Lord) builds the house, 
       the builders (work in vain, they) are working for nothing. 
    (Unless the Lord) guards the city, 
       the guards (watch in vain, they) are watching for nothing.
 2 It is (in vain or of) no use for you to get up early 
       and stay up late, 
    working for a living, (eating bread in painful labor--for)
       The Lord gives sleep to those he loves. ~ Psalm 127:1-2 (NCV, ESV, NASB)

Our Father, who is in heaven,
May your name be hallowed, May your name be glorified.
May your kingdom come, May your will be done on this earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day...that as we start each of our individual jobs,
May we glorify you. For our human effort is useless without you.
Without you, we are nothing.
Our work will rather simply be in vain, be tiresome, be rather empty,
If we work only for our own gain, for our best interests.
Father, forgive us for we know not what we do, but Father, teach us to know right from wrong, teach us your law, teach us your grace. Enable us to forgive those who have wronged us no matter how hard it is.
Lead us not to the temptation of deceiving or lying to our fellow coworkers and our leaders, and to our customers, but enable us to love one another as you have first loved us through Jesus Christ your Son, and deliver us from evil.
For yours is your kingdom, your power, and your glory,
Forever and evermore.
In Jesus' precious name we pray, Amen.