DAILY PRAYERS
Please feel free to use these daily readings and prayers to help you in your quiet times.
MONDAY
Reading - Psalm 148
Prayer - God of work and rest and pleasure,
may all that we do this week
be an offering of love as well as of duty.
Keep us, this day and every day,
in the spirit of kindness, simplicity, and joy;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
TUESDAY
Reading - Psalm 149
Prayer O God, you are the author of peace
and lover of concord.
To know you is eternal life,
to serve you is perfect freedom.
Defend your servants in every stress and danger,
that we may trust in your defence
and not fear the power of any adversaries;
through Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Amen.
WEDNESDAY
Reading - Psalm 150
Prayer - Ever present God,
this day enfolds us and surrounds us:
be in our speaking and in our thinking;
be in our life and on our lips;
be in our hearts and in our souls;
today and for ever. Amen.
THURSDAY
Reading - Psalm 119: 1 - 8
Prayer - Eternal God,
you have set before us the great hope
that your kingdom will come on earth,
and have taught us to pray for its coming.
Make us ready to thank you
for the signs of its dawning,
and to pray and work for the perfect day
when your will shall be done on earth
as it is in heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
FRIDAY
Reading - Psalm 119: 9 - 16
Prayer - O Christ, the Master Carpenter,
who at the last, through wood and nails,
purchased our whole salvation,
wield well your tools
in the workshop of your world,
so that we who come rough-hewn to your bench
may here be fashioned
to a truer beauty of your hand.
We ask it for your own name’s sake. Amen.
SATURDAY
Reading - Psalm 119: 17 - 24
Prayer - God, the well-spring of our life,
pour into our hearts the living water of your grace
that, refreshed by you,
we may live this day
in steadfast reliance on your strength;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SUNDAY
Readings - Psalm 119: 25 - 32
Prayer - God our Father,
at the first creation
you set the world’s corner-stone in place,
while the morning stars sang together
and the angels of God all shouted for joy.
In the new creation
your grace has dawned upon the world
with healing for all.
May Christ, the sun of righteousness,
shine in our hearts for ever
and draw us to that light
where you live in radiant glory;
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.