Lloyd's Prayer

Father God, we know that your kingdom is like a seed planted in the ground that then grows up to become a large tree giving rest and shade for many. Help us trust in your power, knowing that we cannot control the growth of the seed. Help us to keep our focus on the future… Read more Growing seed

Father, help us to rest in the assurance you give us in Christ. We look back to others who trusted in you to supply your overflowing grace in place of our weakness and sin. We rejoice with David who saw how blessed it is to have our lawless deeds forgiven, to have our sins covered.… Read more Confidence in grace

Lord please increase my love for those who are perishing. Help me to see again the disaster of sin and the surpassing beauty of life in Christ. May you give me opportunities to declare the mysteries of Christ and lead others in this also. Help me to walk in wisdom, with gracious words as though… Read more Opportunities

Generous God, open or eyes to the beauty of a life lived with you. Help us to be discontent with all pleasures that are not oriented toward you or slowly make us forget you. Help us to examine our own hearts well and see those trinkets we hold that are worthless on their own, and… Read more Wholeheartedly yours

Lord, make us eager to meet together. May we be a group who comes together around your word, using the gifts God has given us to strengthen one another. May we be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, rejoicing in the work you have done in all of us. May we speak the gospel to… Read more Strengthening each other

Father, you are good and do good, so please teach us your statutes. We have been made your children and are like you through the work of Christ. Remove our pride so that we grow through your fatherly corrections; soften our hearts so that we are not oblivious to them, but instead delight in your… Read more Ps 119: Teth

Father, we once were futile in our thinking and our hearts were darkened, and still, the remnant of this way of life lingers in our ungrateful hearts. Turn our eyes again to your abundant mercy in Christ and the forgiveness we enjoy day by day. Thank you for our daily bread, for friendship, for your… Read more Thankful hearts

Lord, the earth is full of your steadfast love. Wherever we are we can be confident of your promise of mercy and grace in Christ. Across the earth your people look to your faithful promise. Help us today at Kick Off camp to hear again of your mercies to all people and be drawn into… Read more Faithful love

Lord, may our longing be for the inheritance that you have given to us. Cause us to be utterly dissatisfied with the futile securities that we might build for ourselves. Lord, you are our portion, our hope is in your faithful, steadfast love. May we mine deeply the treasures of this committed relationship that you… Read more Calibrate our values

Father, infuse us with your wisdom, for ever the lure of folly calls to us. Folly entices, sugar coating her decayed and poisonous fare as delicious treats. Father thank you that you have made yourself known to us and we have come to fear you. We have tasted the goodness of wisdom as we trust… Read more Fill with wisdom