Category: Prayers in English

Today, we pray for singles

Lord Jesus, we surrender to You singles who are longing to have a life partner. You alone know the desires of our hearts, our endless prayers and deepest aches. We pray that miracles of the kind that led Ruth to Boaz and Tobias to Sara, will take place in our lives too, so that we and our dear ones may see that and glorify Your name. May the way each of us Christian singles get a spouse from You alone, become a testimony to many. If we missed our own soul mate or our calling, rework our lives so we...

Today, we pray for the gift of gratitude

Lord Jesus, You have given us so much, we pray today as we begin a new year, for the gift of gratitude. Thank you, Father, for having created us and given us families. Thank you for being with us in all our joys and sorrows, for your comfort in our sadness, your companionship in our loneliness. Thank you for yesterday, today, tomorrow and for the whole of our lives. Thank you for friends, for health and for grace, for unknown blessings on their way. For enemies, who taught us the meaning of selfless love and complete forgiveness. For food, water...

New year prayer

Lord Jesus, as we begin 2016, we come to You today with our deepest thirst – for Your Holy Spirit’s anointing. With infinite mercy, may God rain His Spirit down, forgive all our sins, release us from suffering, and restore us to health and His strength. May God cleanse us all, deliver us from all evil, preserve us in all goodness, and bring us to everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our only Saviour. We claim and receive Jesus’ shed blood’s anointing on ourselves and our own. Thank You, Jesus, praise You, Jesus. Hallelujah! Amen. Father God, I come before you with...

Give Thanks to this Year

Our Father in Heaven, We give thanks for the pleasure of gathering together for this occasion. We give thanks for this food prepared by loving hands. We give thanks for life, the freedom to enjoy it all and all other blessings. As we partake of this food, we pray for health and strength to carry on and try to live as You would have us. This we ask in the name of Christ, Our Heavenly Father. O God, when I have food, help me to remember the hungry; When I have work, help me to remember the jobless; When I...

Today, we pray for widows, orphans and single parent families

Lord Jesus, today we pray for some of the ignored in our society – the widows, widowers, orphans and single parents. We pray that You will be the absent spouse, friend, sibling, mother and father for them all. May Your love surround them when they are at their lowest. May Your Holy Spirit give them inner strength, courage and joy. May angels be at their service when they need them. Bless their families and friends too mightily, Lord. Forgive the ones who reject them and cause them suffering. Amen.