Prayer

This afternoon I started praying then had a series of interruptions that kept me away from the prayer for a couple of hours. Now I understand why I find it so hard to actually pray in an organised or systematic way!

So here is the prayer I wrote down, when I could finally return to the “throne room”.

Lord, it's just crazy a the moment. I review my prayer list, but don't get time to pray. I start praying only to have a dozen interruptions.

So here I am an hour after I first sat down to pray.

Father, I want to do your will. I want to see your purposes unfold for me and the church and this community.

I thank you for the phone call earlier that seemed to offer a way forward for the Christian bookshop,

Thank you for the men who have come to quote on the carpet laying job which will open up a more flexible way to use the church building.

Thank you for the conversation that Margaret had earlier with a woman expecting a new baby. She is a former youth grouper who acknowledges now that she was “feral”. Lord let the truths of your gospel warm the depths of her heart today.

I see the events of today as signs that you are drawing together the threads of our past and present to weave into the future.

Lord I confess that our church as a community of faith is a little too complacent and comfortable. We have lost the sharpness of our zeal for you and our passion for the lost in our town. Stir our hearts Lord.

I ask for a greater unity amongst the churches in our town. I have a sense Lord that at the moment we are like a bunch of hard rocks which occasionally bump against each other but do not let them influence us. We are far from being the one Body you have called us to be. I can't see how we can even get to where we need to be, but Father with you all things are possible.

I thank you Lord that all of these things are in your hands. Let your will be done in me and in your church.

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