Psalm 42 this Morning Prayer – “As the deer longs for the water brooks, so longs my soul for you, O God”, our last prayer this week with Ali E, who has fortunately resisted singing this beautiful Psalm. She considers God’s love and grandeur at day break; “Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World...
Rob reminds us of God’s compassion in Psalm 147 and asks this Evening Prayer for God’s forgiveness, for the things we have done wrong, thought badly of, or omitted to do at all. Rob prays for a new start for us all and to live in God’s Way. He reminds us also of times when...
Psalm 28 – “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in him and I am helped.” Our Morning Prayer contemplates the approach we take to our daily tasks, including prayer. We come to God as our day starts, asking that our actions and thoughts be blessed. Ali prays that we find...
Psalm 139 – Rob prays for God to search us out and know our hearts, test, and examine our thoughts. We pray as part of ‘Thy Kingdom Come’, that those we pray for are no longer anxious for their daily lives, because God replenishes everything and with the warmth of the sun our harvest will...
Morning Prayer and Psalm 24 reminds us that ‘the earth is the Lord’s and all that fills it, the compass of the world and all who dwell therein’. Ali E prays that God breathes renewed life, helps us find an alternative way of living and gives us a greater appreciation of the splendour of nature...
O God, the well of life, make us bright with your wisdom – Rob reads Psalm 36. Our Evening Prayer includes a traditional prayer that reflects on the life of St Dunstan, born in 909 AD. We pray for five individuals this week through the prayer initiative of Thy Kingdom Come, that through God we...
Ali E and Minty read Psalm 2 this Morning Prayer and thank God that we have woken to a new day and to the rising of life itself. As we get dressed we ask God to enrobe us in the shadow of a protecting wing. May God guide us as we carry out our work...
Rob recites Psalm 68, asking our Father of the fatherless, defender of widows, protector of the solitary, home to the homeless and a place of freedom for prisoners; “you make your home among the weak, you deliver us from death, you bring us joy beyond our imagining.” Rob reminds us of ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ this...
Psalm 98 encourages us to “Sing to the Lord a new song… Make music to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the voice of melody.” Don’t worry Ali E is not about to break into song, however, this Morning Prayer we sing praises to God for the beauty of nature and our...
Rob’s first Evening Prayer this week, in his reading of Psalm 18 Rob describes God’s deliverance when we pray for help; “He made darkness his covering round about him, dark waters and thick clouds his pavilion.” Rob prays that God will support us until tonight’s shadows lengthen and evening comes, the world is hushed and the...
