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31st October 2013 – Lord God, I ask for the courage to fully engage with a world in need. I also ask for the wisdom to be able to have contact without contamination.

30th October 2013 –  Thank you Lord that you don’t back off from my pain. You are not afraid of my emotional outpourings. Thank you that I can be ‘honest to God.’

29th October 2013 – Thank you Lord for the glorious light that shines out of your empty tomb. Help me to always walk in its brilliant rays.

28th October 2013 –  Thank you Father God for the fact that Jesus is alive.

25th October 2013 –  Lord let your gospel so thrill me and fill me that it spills out of every pore.

24th October 2013 –  Lord forgive me for the times I fight against the truth I know deep in my heart. Have mercy.

23rd October 2013 –  Help me Lord to be so devoted to you that I remove any ‘high places’ from my life. Give me eyes to see them, and a heart committed to dismantling them. Let no area of disobedience or any lack of submission remain within my borders.

 22nd October 2013 –  Almighty God, I can only thank you from the bottom of my heart for the great victories you have given me in the past, as I have placed my confidence in you. So I pray for the battles of this day, that you will again show yourself strong on behalf of your church. Help us to look to you.

21st October 2013 –  Help me this day, Lord, in all my decisions to carefully choose the way of holiness. And help me not to be less of a Christian at home than I seek to be in other settings.

18th October 2013 – Thank you Lord for the beauty of your order for church life. Help me to eagerly desire your gifts, and especially prophecy.

17th October 2013 –  Lord God, all that I have is from you. Help me to give what I have to serve others and build up your church.

16th October 2013 –  Lord bless the leaders of your church with bending knees, unblocked ears, and willing hands and feet to carry out your will. Bless us all through their anointed ministry.

15th October 2013 –  Lord, I choose to trust in you and turn from sin, than place my confidence in any human aid.

14th October 2013 –  Help me, Lord, this day to not see myself in the light of the ‘giants’, but to see those giants in the light of God.

11th October 2013 – I do thank you, Lord Jesus, for all the things which remind me that apart from you I can do nothing.

10th October 2013 –  ‘Restore, O Lord, the honour of your Name, and in our time revive the church that bears your Name.

9th October 2013 – Lord my life from beginning to end is in your Hands. I look to you to direct my steps today.

8th October 2013 –  Lord we ask that we may regularly have church services such as those described in 1 Corinthians 14:24, 25. We pray that you will be powerfully and overwhelmingly encountered in all our gatherings for worship. May your Word be clearly spoken, conviction of sin fall, lives be changed, and your Name be glorified.

7th October 2013 –  Lord we thank you for your instructions for church life. We see your wisdom. Help us to be ever mindful of them and obey them. In all our services ‘send forth your truth and let there be light’.

4th October 2013 – ‘We’ll let you have your way among us; We’ll not strive. We’ll let your peace rule within our hearts; we’ll not strive.’

3rd October 2013 –  Thank you Lord that there are older and wiser people in my world. Help me to never be so full of my own convictions and ideas that I imagine I don’t need the insights of others. Please give me always the wisdom to sift what bits of advice to throw away and which pieces to cling to.

2nd October 2013 –  Lord, I see from this amazing book that you call me to so much more than religion and ritual. You call me to a relationship of deep and profound love. Help me to stir myself up from lethargy and enable me to ‘kill’ everything that might spoil what is possible. I want to enter into all you have for me.

1st October 2013 –  Lord, please fill me to overflowing with your inextinguishable love.

30th September 2013 –  As I go out into the service of this day Lord, cause me to do so with a smile on my face and a song in my heart.

27th September 2013 –  I pray for the services in the church to which I belong this coming week-end. I ask Lord that they will be times when we clearly hear from you and receive encouragement and comfort; occasions when we grow upwards in you. Thank you that we are all on your building site, and our salvation is ‘under construction.’ Bring it all to wonderful completion Lord God, for your glory and honour.

26th September 2013 – I ask you, Lord Jesus, to develop in me, your lover, an immeasurable urge towards you, an affection that is unbounded, a longing that is unrestrained, a fervor that throws discretion to the winds!…There is no one more blessed than he who dies because he loves so much. No creature can love God too much. Richard Rolle.

25th September 2013 – Let my desire for you Lord infect people around me with similar longings.

24th September 2013 –  Reduce me to love, dear Lord.

23rd September 2013 –  Lord, may my life always display how much I love you.

20th September 2013 –  Lord Jesus: It is my simple but sincere prayer that all who come into our church services will meet you there. I also ask that the beauty of Jesus will be seen in me

19th September 2013 – Lord, strengthen me to leave behind everything that would come between you and me. I deeply desire this rich relationship of love that you have planned. May I not miss out for any reason.

18th September 2013 –  Lord God, when I look in the mirror, I find it hard to see beauty; but when I look in the mirror of your Word, I see a picture of myself as you see me. It takes my breath away. Thank you Heavenly Father for this whole new perspective. Help me to always see me through your eyes.

17th September 2013 –   Thank you Lord that I can stand shoulder to shoulder with people like Moses, Aaron and Samuel in calling on your Name. What a privilege!

16th September 2013 –  Lord, I bring to you ____ May they ask serious questions about you. Cause them to look hard at you, and draw them to yourself. I long for their conversion.

13th September 2013 – Lord, by your Holy Spirit, intensify my longing for you. Forgive my idleness; please pardon any inclination towards spiritual laziness. Help me to stir myself up, and put effort, by your strength, into seeking after you. Thank you Lord that those who seek you find you, if the search is whole-hearted.

12th September 2013  –  Thank you Lord for placing me in your body where we all need each other, and, above all, we are totally dependent on you.

2013 –  Help me Lord Jesus to ‘catch’ all the ‘little’ things that would ‘ruin’ this blossoming love relationship with you.

10th September 2013 –  Thank you Lord that you made me to be me. Help me to be content to be the best version of me that I can be.

9th September 2013 –  Thank you Lord that there are no ‘good for nothings in your church’. You have made me, in Christ, with purpose. Please help me to discover your call on my life and be fully obedient to you.

6th September 2013 – Thank you Lord that you have given me new eyes, to be able to see myself as you see me. Help me to grow in loving you and enjoying your love for me. Take me beyond rules, routine and ritual into a relationship of deepest intimacy. Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me, more and more.

5th September 2013 –  Thank you Lord that you do some of your very best work ‘in the dark’. In the midst of a world that can scorch me, help me to always keep my own vineyard

4th September 2013 –  Lord Jesus, your Name is like ointment poured forth. Just to speak your Name brings peace and comfort to my troubled soul. Thank you for your love, wonderful Jesus. ‘Lord it is my chief complaint, that my love is weak and faint; yet I love thee, and adore. Oh for grace to love thee more.’

3rd September 2013 –  Lord, please grant that every Christian marriage will be filled with a growing love that reflects your love for the church.

2nd September 2013 – However busy I may be today Lord God of my salvation, and no matter what challenges I face, let me not forget your wonders and lose my song. May every part of this day be set to music!

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30th August 2013 –  May the wonder of the communion service and all it represents become more and more vivid to me. Help me always to participate in a way that honours Jesus and His great sacrifice, and celebrates and promotes loving unity in His body, the church.

29th August 2013 –  Thank you for the communion service Lord. You know the frailty of our memories. Thank you for giving us this lovely way to keep fresh in our minds and hearts what you have done for us.

28th August 2013 – Lord Jesus, help me to so live in closeness to you that my whole life is a pouring out of what you are pouring in. Make me your channel Lord. Flow through me in all your fullness.

27th August 2013 – Lord Jesus, I ask that where there is the tiniest fracture; the smallest dislocation between people in your church, that you will bring healing, reconciliation and peace. Help me to play my full part in keeping things sweet with others. I let go of my grudges and bitterness and receive your cleansing and empowering.

26th August 2013 – Thank you Lord that when you made man you made us male and female. Thank you so much for the complementarity of the sexes. Thank you for the truth that we are ‘all one in Christ Jesus’, and for all that we get to do together as we live under your authority and within your revealed order.

23rd August 2013 – Lord, please have every page of my life, and make me your living message. Grant that those who ‘read’ me will be moved towards you.

22nd August 2013 –  Thank you Lord that again and again you switch on the light when I am groping around in darkness. Thank you so much for the generosity with which you share your wisdom with those who earnestly and believingly seek you. You are good!

21st August 2013 –  Thank you Lord Jesus that I can talk with you about all that is on my mind. This is such a comfort. I see it all differently when I bring it into the light of your Wisdom.

 20th August 2013 –  Lord I know I can be so demanding and live at such a high speed. Help me to slow down sufficiently to keep pace with grace.

16th August 2013 – Lord, I don’t want to become a casualty in this spiritual war. Keep me, I pray, always in step with you.

15th August 2013 –  Lord, I again stand in awe of you and the practical wisdom of your Word. It is so relevant to my daily life. Help me to live it.

14th August 2013 – Lord Jesus, I am so aware of an innate selfishness. Help me to die to me every day. As you did not please yourself, but put others first, please help me to do the same.

13th August 2013 – Lord, I know there are things I should run from. Help me to always be aware of what they are, and keep me from loitering when I should be fleeing.

12th August 2013 –  Thank you Almighty God for this reminder that prayer leads to happenings. So fill me with your Spirit in my praying that through these intercessions people will be changed and brought near to you.

9th August 2013 –  Lord God, I want to pray about prayer. Please pour out the Spirit of prayer upon your church. Enable us to pray how you want us to.

8th August 2013 –  Lord you are truly good. Thank you that when I call on you in Jesus’ Name you run to my aid. What a mighty God we serve!

7th August 2013 –  Thank you for your wonderful grace and mercy in my life Lord. I don’t want to ever abuse it. Being forgiven much, let me love much, and show it in hating sin and speedily turning from it. Thank you that if I do sin, I have an advocate with the Father.

6th August 2013 – Thank you Lord for the gift of prayer. Please make me an effective pray-er in your mighty Hands

5th August 2013 –  Lord, I again find myself wanting desperately to be a praying person. But I also catch a glimpse today that being a prayerful, believing person and walking in holiness go together. It’s not that I can earn your answers, but somehow the life I lead and the prayers I pray are connected. Thank you for this precious insight.

2nd August 2013 –  Lord, help me to be content to know who I am in you, and do your will for my life whole-heartedly. There is so much I’d like to do, but enable me to be happy with doing what’s on your agenda for me.

1st August 2013 – Lord, as I understand your Word, you cause me to see that I am your Temple. I recognise that the church is your Temple also. Then my prayer is that you will fill your Temple with your glory and cause it to be seen. I ask this for your eternal glory.

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31st June 2013 – Lord God, may the knowledge of your unalterable rule fill me with unfailing courage and joy. I pray that the great truths you have revealed to me will change me, day by day, and make me more and more the person you want me to be.

30th July 2013 – Lord, without gloating, please help me to learn from the failures of others, and strengthen me that I will not repeat their mistakes. Thank you for your promise that we do not have to be overcome by any temptation.

29th July 2013 – Lord God, please strengthen me to persevere in running this Christian race. I ask for great endurance. And enable me to remove from my private, personal life anything and everything that would erode the power of my public ministry.

 26th July 2013 –  Lord give me, please, a burning passion for lost people.

25th July 2013 –  Lord I want to be someone who endures to the end. I have some sense of how difficult this can be. Please help me!

24th July 2013 –  I thank you Lord that in you I find everything I need to keep me anchored in a world of raging storms and shifting currents.

23rd July 2013 –  Day by day, my Lord and King, I want to get out of bed and give you my very best, for you are worthy of nothing less. I pray that the temple of my life will be ‘absolutely stunning – a showcase temple’ for your glory alone.

22nd July 2013 – Lord, make my life personally a song to you; and make our lives collectively a symphony. Help us not to hesitate to use words to tell how great you are, and may we live from day to day ‘in awesome wonder’.

19th July 2013 –  Help me Lord to never put an obstacle in the pathway of someone coming to know you. Enable me to consider the effects of my actions and spot difficulties before they arise.

18th July 2013 –  Lord let me hear your voice and obey you – TODAY!

17th July 2013 – Help me to truly love my Christian family, even if it involves the sacrifice of things I love.

16th July 2013 –   (Today, if you are single ask that you may glorify the Lord in your single state. If you are married, dedicate your marriage afresh to Him, praying that in every detail you will glorify Him and fulfil His purposes in bringing you together. )   Lord, as I write my life’s story, let it be that your Hand is upon mine, so that all that I write will be your script and not my own.

15th July 2013 –  Lord God, keep me centred on you and your Word.

12 July 2013 –  Thank you Lord for this precious gift of life. All that I am and have I give to you. It is my heart’s desire to be fully yours now and always. I want to so invest my life in time that there will be returns in eternity.

11 July 2013 –  Lord I ask for the true spirit of Holy Ghost adventure. Help me to set my sails and go with you, even though fear of the unknown could hold me back.

10 July 2013 –  Thank you Lord for the breadth and depth of your Word; for its practicality and its relevance to the whole of life.

9 July 2013 – Lord enable me to see the things that tend to blunt my ‘cutting edge’ and avoid them. Keep me sharp. Teach me how to sharpen myself.

8 July 2013 –  Lord, may it be that my community is different because I live in it. Please may I be enormously influential for you by the power of your Holy Spirit.

5 July 2013 – Lord, how gloomy and pessimistic I would be if I were restricted to the purely ‘horizontal’ view of life. But now you have flooded me with light and I am seeing from heaven’s perspective. Everything looks different and filled with hope. Thank you for this ‘vertical’ insight into the nature of things.

 4 July 2013 –  Lord, I pray that in the ups and downs of everyday life I will put you first and not all the good things you so richly give us to enjoy, for which I am truly grateful.

3 July 2013 – God of the impossible, I thank you that you can do the things that I can’t. I am amazed that you call me to do the things I am unable to do by your powerful enabling.

2 July 2013 – Although this world has had ‘a great fall’, and sin has spread and spoiled everything, thank you Lord that Jesus puts ‘Humpty’ together again. I am grateful for His restoring work in me, and in all creation

1 July 2013 – Thank you Lord for today. I am grateful for sleep and rest and your gift of a new day. Help me to see it through your eyes and use it for your praise and glory.

28th June 2013 –  Thank you Lord that light from you shines on our otherwise dark paths. Help us to walk in that light and never step outside of it.

27th June 2013 –  Lord God, I acknowledge the wonderful wisdom in all your Words. Be my Teacher and let me learn of you always.

26th June 2013 – Thank you Lord for your precious gift of marriage. At the beginning you declared that it is not good for man to be alone. But let us so live as married couples that, as one, we are devoted to you first and foremost and never distracted from this central dedication.

25th June 2013 – Lord, I realise afresh today that I am responsible to you. You are my Master and I am your slave. Help me to keep my eyes on you and obey you fully.

24th June 2013 – Thank you for opening my eyes to see, dear God, that my chief end in life is to know you, glorify you, and enjoy you forever.

21st June 2013 – Thank you Lord for the money and possessions you have put into my hands. I again find myself needing to affirm that it is yours and not mine. Help me to live thankfully and generously, looking to you at all times. Teach me to sow your abundant goodness to me into the lives of others in meaningful ways.

20th June 2013 – The next time I ‘go to church’ remind me to prepare my heart Lord. I want, and need, to hear your voice.

19th June 2013 –  Thank you Lord for those who walk through life with me. Thank you above all that you are with me and will never forsake me.

18th June 2013 – I thank you Lord Jesus that I don’t have to strive to be ‘somebody’ in order to feel good about myself. I am so grateful that in you I already am ‘somebody’ and all that counts is to be the me you are calling me to be. Thank you that you make life to be full of meaning; that you are the answer to every question ‘Ecclesiastes’ raises.

17th June 2013 – Sovereign Lord, in the face of so much in this world that I find disturbing and perplexing, I affirm this day that you are in ultimate control, and that you will always do right as Judge of all the earth

14th June 2013 –  We pray for all married Christians whose partners are unconverted. Please cause the lives they live to bring those closest to them into the Kingdom of God.

13th June 2013 – Lord, you call some to be single, and some to be married. Thank you that with your calling there comes a gift of grace to fulfil it. We could never get by on our own.

12th June 2013 –  Thank you Eternal God that you fully satisfy the eternal longings you have put into my heart. You are not a disappointment.

11th June 2013 – Thank you Lord for the gift of my daily work. Help me to give my best today. Let me work worthily and well as one working for you.

10th June 2013 –  Thank you Jesus for taking the sting out of death. Thank you also for revealing the true meaning of life and giving me purpose.

7th June 2013 –  Lord God, everything you made is good and I celebrate your wonderful gifts of beauty, work, the creative arts, marriage, food and drink. I do not look for meaning in these things. I receive them gratefully as your gifts. But only in you do I find meaning and sense. All your gifts make wonderful servants but terrible masters, so help me to view them as I should.

6th June 2013 – Thank you Lord for education and for educators. These are among your finest gifts. But help us to not search for meaning in the gifts, but in you the Giver of all good things. We pray for all who teach others, that they will be blessed in their vocation. Help them to keep you at the centre of their instruction, and enable us all to keep you right in the middle of our learning.

5th June 2013 –  Help me to seek first your kingdom, Lord, and enjoy your gifts within the orbit of enjoying you most of all.

4th June 2013 –  Lord, you make wars to cease across the earth. I pray that you will bring peace and justice to all war-torn lands and strife- torn communities

3rd June 2013 – Let me never forget my body is all yours Lord God, and help me live accordingly.