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Prayers on Discipleship
Utilize these
prayers in personal and planning team devotions,
during congregational worship or as copy for
materials you may create to support your
congregation’s discipleship emphasis.
O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire you with a
whole heart, so that desiring you we may seek you
with a whole heart, so that desiring you we may
seek and find you; and so finding you, may love
you; and loving you, may hate those sins which
separate us from you, for the sake of Jesus Christ.
- St. Anselm, 1033-1109 From Mary Batchelor
(compiled by), The Doubleday Prayer Collection. New
York: Doubleday, 1996. p. 11.
Our Father, you called us and saved us in order to
make us like your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Change us, day by day, by the work of your Holy
Spirit so that we may grow more like him in all
that we think and say and do, to his glory. Amen.
- Soren Kirkegaard, 1813-1855 From Mary
Batchelor (compiled by), The Doubleday Prayer
Collection. New York: Doubleday, 1996. p. 11.
I am only a spark Make me a fire. I am only a
string Make me a lyre. I am only a drop Make me a
fountain. I am only an ant hill Make me a mountain.
I am only a feather Make me a wing. I am only a rag
Make me a king!
- prayer from Mexico From Mary Batchelor
(compiled by), The Doubleday Prayer Collection. New
York: Doubleday, 1996. p. 12.
You who are over us, You who are one of us, You who
are also within us, May all see you in me also, May
I prepare the way for you, May I thank you for all
that shall fall to my lot, May I also not forget
the needs of others... Give me a pure heart - that
I may see you, A humble heart - that I may hear
you, A heart of love - that I may serve you, A
heart of faith - that I may abide in you.
- Dag Hammarskjold, 1905-1961 From Mary
Batchelor (compiled by), The Doubleday Prayer
Collection. New York: Doubleday, 1996. p. 13.
God of your goodness, give me yourself, For you are
sufficient for me… If I were to ask anything less I
should always be in want, For in you alone do I
have all.
- Julian of Norwich, 1342-1413 From Mary
Batchelor (compiled by), The Doubleday Prayer
Collection. New York: Doubleday, 1996. p. 14.
Lord, if You have to break me to remake me, let
Your will be done.
- Marian Wright Edelman Marion Wright Edelman,
Guide My Feet. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. p. 62.
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no
unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an
unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear
out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy
purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O
Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence
to seek you, wisdom to find you and a faithfulness
that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
- Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274 From Mary Batchelor
(compiled by), The Doubleday Prayer Collection. New
York: Doubleday, 1996. p.12.
Father, behold thy child; Creator, behold thy
creature; Master, behold thy disciple; Saviour,
behold thy redeemed one; Spirit, behold thy
cleansed one; Comforter, behold one whom thou dost
uphold; So I come to thee, O infinite and
unimaginable, To worship thee.
- Margaret Cropper, 1886-1980 Geo. Appleton
(General Editor) The Oxford Book of Prayer, New
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985.p. 137.
Take, O Lord, and receive all my liberty, my
memory, my understanding and my will; all that I
have and possess. You have given them to me; to
you, O Lord, I restore them. All things are yours:
Dispose of them according to your will. Give me
your love and your grace; for this enough for me.
- Mother Teresa, 1910-1996 Compiled by Robert
Van de Weyer, The Harper Collins Book of Prayers.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. p. 352.
Lord by thy grace, let the poor see me be drawn to
Christ and invite him to enter their homes and
their lives. Let the sick and the suffering find in
me a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the
little ones of the streets cling to me because I
remind them of him, the friend of all little ones.
- Mother Teresa, 1910-1996 Compiled by Robert
Van de Weyer, The Harper Collins Book of Prayers.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. p. 352.
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