Lloyd's Prayer

Heavenly Father, please keep us safe as we travel. Keep us alert and sensible as we drive. Please remind us that we are travellers in this place and citizens of another. Keep our eyes set on the horizon of your kingdom, and fill our hearts with longing for it to come in all its fullness.… Read more Travellers

Heavenly Father, we need you so desperately. Please give us eyes to see this and the wisdom to bow before you, to cry out to you as our only true provider. Spare us from stupid pride that stretches up its head and says, “I can do this!” Spare us from the mindless ignorance that keeps… Read more Need

Heavenly Father, help us to lean into your steadfast love and take comfort. We are frail in our humanity and quickly crumple under the strain of suffering and brokenness. We can do nothing to reverse the effect of sin in our life and our world – we cast ourselves on you. We cling to you… Read more Hope through the mess

Heavenly Father, please do your work in us. Please change us because we cannot change ourselves. Teach me and the students here at NTE your statutes, cause us to understand your law, and so transform us that our whole heart is set upon it and hangs onto it. Lead us in our blindness into the… Read more Psalm 119: he

Merciful Lord, we tentatively ask that you open our eyes to see our sin. I know my wrongdoings Lord, but I do not often see the deep darkness that is it, the mournfulness of it, its cancerous blight in my heart, its offence and repulsiveness to you. Lord correct me, but with judgment, not in… Read more Help us see our sin

Our gracious Lord , we cry out to you with a deep need to know you, with longing to understand your word. In your word we see your majestic nature and your wonderful salvation. You are the God who saves, so please deliver us from our weakness and sin. May the students at NTE know… Read more Psalm 119: Taw

Heavenly Father, you are a holy and awesome God and we cannot stand before you in our weakness, but you have revealed yourself through your word. Through your Spirit, give us eyes to see your majesty, your grace, your salvation, and give us hearts to cling onto you in faith. Hold onto us, Lord, through… Read more Semester 2 update

Heavenly Father, please step into our situation to deliver us. We are weighed down by all kinds of suffering and need you to intervene and bring about life. In the midst of affliction we turn to you, knowing that your word restores us and fills our heart with your steadfast love. We know the depth… Read more Psalm 119: Resh

Almighty God, we rejoice in Christ our saviour who stands as our great high priest. May we cling on to him as our true representative, truly man and not unable to sympathise with our weakness, but may we cling with great confidence because he is not beset with that weakness as we are, for he… Read more Hebrews 4:14 etc

Lord, please help us to sow your word into our hearts day by day and please cause it to bear fruit. When we open it, may we see and not just look, may we listen and not just hear. Work in us by your Spirit to incline our hearts towards it and be deeply impacted.… Read more Bring fruit from your word