Selected Christian Prayers
"I urge then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone - for kings and all those in authority, that we may live godly and quiet lives in all goodness and holiness. This is good and pleases God our Saviour, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men - the testimony given in its proper time." 1 Tim 2:1-6
The prayers listed below are arranged according to the subjects in the excellent anthology, The SPCK Book of Christian Prayer, although the prayers themselves come from various sources. Within subjects, prayers are arranged alphabetically by first line. Every effort has been made to acknowledge sources; in the case of an omission, please contact the Council of Churches.
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Urgent need
Seeking God’s presence
Prayers from the Bible
Prayers of praise and thanksgiving
Prayers of dedication to God’s will
- A wreathed garland of deserved praise (George Herbert)
- Be thou a light unto my eyes (John Cosin)
- Dear Lord, help me keep my eyes on you (Henri Nouwen)
- Deliver me, O God, from a slothful mind (John Wesley)
- Eternal God, the light of the minds that know thee (Gelasian Sacramentary)
- God almighty, eternal (Francis of Assisi)
- I love you, O God (Miriam Therese Winter)
- Lord, how do I love thee? (Elizabeth Browning)
- Lord, may your will be done (World Council of Churches)
- Most high and glorious God (Francis of Assisi)
- O come, Holy Spirit, inflame my heart (Michael Hollings & Etta Gullick)
- O God, the God of all goodness (B F Wescott)
- Take, Lord, and receive (Ignatius Loyola)
- Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ (Richard of Chichester)
- Thou who art over us (Dag Hammarskjold)
Prayers for families and friends
Prayers for people in special need
- Alone: You were despised and rejected (Denis Duncan)
- Bereaved: For all who have suffered deep loss (Mary Batchelor)
- Bereaved: O Comforting One, Compassionate One (Miriam Therese Winter)
- Bereaved: O God, who brought us to birth (Janet Morley)
- Bereaved: We give them back to thee, dear Lord (William Penn)
- Bereaved: We remember, Lord, the slenderness of the thread (Dick Williams)
- Death of a child: Lord, this dreadful thing has happened (Frank Colquhoun)
- Death of a child: O God, to me who am left to mourn (Edward White Benson)
- Disability: O God, the Father of the helpless (Mothers’ Union)
- Disaster: Prayer in response to the 2005 Asian tsunami
- Dying: Eternal God, be near to all who are aged or infirm (New Every Morning)
- Dying: Lord Jesus Christ, Lord of life and conqueror of death (Neville Smith)
- Homeless: Our Father, we pray for the many homeless people in our Land (Shelter)
- Sexually abused: Jesus, our brother and friend (Tracy Hansen)
- Suicidal: God of eternal life, bless all who contemplate taking their own life (Vienna Cobb Anderson)
Prayers for justice and peace
Prayers for ecology and climate change
Prayers for God’s help and strength
Prayers of confession and forgiveness
Prayers for daily life
Prayers for special occasions
Prayers for the Christian Year
Prayers for the Church and its mission
Blessings and doxologies
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