A Prayer for your Rhythms

Here’s a prayer for your rhythms in Christ! The hope of writing these prayers is that they might give words when they’re hard to come by, offer form to your own prayers before the Lord, or be a blessing in your church context. Each line of the prayer is based on one of these verses: John 15:1-16, Psalm 1:3, Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 10:27

Please take and use them however you find helpful and my prayer is that it allows you to behold God’s glory more fully.

Great and mighty Gardener,

In your love, you chose me before I chose you.

So grant that I remain in your Son,

pruning my life as you see fit, 

that I might love you with

heart, soul, mind and strength.

These things I cannot do on my own,

and so I come to you for rest,

tired and burdened,

asking that you might replace my yoke with yours. 

Take the rhythms of my life

and plant them by streams of water,

yielding the fruit that you desire - 

of loving others as you have loved me.

In this - make my joy complete,

through the mundane and the miraculous,

so that not a moment of my life

would be lived without my greatest friend.

Amen.