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Prayers
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Genesis 2:15
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O Lord, even as you commanded Adam to tend and keep the garden, enable us
to tend and keep the garden of our hearts and lives. May we cultivate our
hearts and lives by taking full advantage of those means which You have
provided for us to confirm and strengthen our faith in Jesus, especially the
word, sacrament and prayer. May we guard our hearts and lives by rejecting
the evil thought, the wicked word and the sinful act.
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Genesis 18:19
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May we know You, O Lord, with the friendship of faith, so that we may lead
our families in keeping the way of the Lord, doing righteousness and
justice. Work faith in our hearts, O Lord, so that we will be saved, both we
and our households.
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Exodus 20:12
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O Lord, we live in an age of anarchy where people tend to disrespect and
disregard all authority. Enable us to preserve the honor and perform the duties
which belong to those whom You have put in authority over us:
parents, husbands, elders, civil authorites.
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Psalm 1:6
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O Lord, enable us to walk in paths of righteousness, for You, O Lord, know
the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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Psalm 15:1-5
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O Lord, may we obey you here on earth as the angels obey You in heaven. May
we walk uprightly and work righteousness and speak truth in our hearts. May
we not backbite with our tongues, nor do evil to our neighbor, nor
take up a reproach against our friend. May the vile person be despised in
our eyes but may we honor those who fear You, O Lord. May we swear to our own
hurt and not change. May we not lend out money at excessive interest, nor
take a bribe against the innocent. Enable us, O Lord, to keep Your revealed
will, and we pray that You will fulfill Your promise that those who do
will never be moved.
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Psalm 19:12-14
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We sin, O Lord, more than we know. Who can discern all his errors? Cleanse
us, O Lord, from secret faults. Keep back Your servants also from presumptuous
sins; let them not have dominion over us. Then we shall be blameless,
and we shall be innocent of great transgression. Let the words of our mouths
and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, our
Strength and our Redeemer.
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Psalm 119:1-3
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O Lord, strengthen our faith in Christ that we may increasingly
be among the truly blessed, that we may increasingly be those
who do no iniquity and are undefiled because they walk in Your ways,
w.
O Lord, as revealed in Your law. For blessed are those, O Lord, who keep
Your testimonies and who seek You with the whole heart.
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Psalm 119:33-37
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May Your kingdom come in our individual hearts and lives, O Lord. Teach us,
O Lord, the way of Your statutes, that we may keep it to the end. Give us
understanding, that we may keep Your law and observe it with our whole
heart.
Make us walk in the path of Your commandments, for we delight in it. Incline
our hearts to Your testimonies, and not to covetousness. Turn away our
eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive in us Your way.
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Psalm 119:97-104
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Teach us to love Your law, O Lord. Make it our meditation all the day. May
Your words become sweet to our taste, sweeter than honey to our mouth.
Through Your commandments, make us wiser than our enemies.
Through Your testimonies, give us more understanding than all our teachers.
Through Your precepts, enable us to understand more than the ancients.
Restrain our feet from every evil way that we may keep Your word and not
depart from Your judgments. Give us understanding through Your precepts that
we may learn to hate every false way.
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Psalm 119:127-128
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come into our lives as individuals. Write Your law
upon our hearts such that we love Your commandments more than gold, yes,
than fine gold.
May we increasingly come to consider all Your precepts concerning all
things to be right, and may we hate every false way.
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Psalm 119:133,135
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come to us as individuals. Direct our steps by Your
word, and let no iniquity have dominion over us. Make Your face shine upon
Your servants, and teach us Your statutes.
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Psalm 143:8,10
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We pray for the coming of Your kingdom, O Lord, for the establishment of
Your rule in our hearts and lives. Cause us to hear Your lovingkindness in
the morning, for in You do we trust. Cause us to know the way in which we
should walk,
for we lift up our soul to You. Teach us to do Your will, for You are our
God and Your Spirit is good. Lead us in the land of uprightness.
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Proverbs 2:20-21
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O Lord, may we walk in the way of goodness and keep to the paths of
righteousness. For the upright will dwell in the land, and the blameless will
remain in it. But the wicked will be cut off, and the unfaithful will be
uprooted.
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Proverbs 3:5-6
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O Lord, enable us to trust in You with all our heart, and to lean not on our
own understanding. Enable us, O Lord, to acknowledge You in all our ways,
and we pray that You will direct our paths.
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Proverbs 3:7-8
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come to each of us as individuals. May we not be
wise in our own eyes, O Lord. May we instead trust in You, our Lord, and
depart from evil. For this will be health to our flesh, and strength to our
bones.
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Proverbs 3:32-34
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O Lord. may we be upright, for the perverse person is an abomination to
You, O Lord, but Your secret counsel is with the upright. May we be just, O
Lord, for Your curse is on the house of the wicked, but You bless the home of
the just.
May we be humble, O Lord, for You scorn the scornful but give grace to the
humble.
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Proverbs 4:14-15
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O Lord, may we not enter the path of the wicked, nor walk in the way of evil.
May we avoid it and not travel on it. May we turn away from it and pass on.
on.
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Proverbs 4:18-19
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O Lord, enable us to walk in the path of the just, for the path of the just
is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day,
byt the way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them
stumble.
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Proverbs 4:25-27
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O Lord, may we obey You on earth as the angels obey You in heaven. May our
eyes look straight ahead, and our eyelids right before us. May we ponder the
path of our feet, and may all our ways be established.
May we not turn to the right or to the left; may we remove our foot from
evil.
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Proverbs 10:27-29
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O Lord, may your kingdom come into our lives as individuals. For a respectful
fear of You, O Lord, prolongs days, but the years of the wicked will be
shortened. For the hope of the righteous will be fulfilled in gladness,
but the expectation of the wicked will perish. For Your way, O Lord, leads
to strength for the upright, but destruction will come to the workers of
iniquity.
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Jeremiah 7:23
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Enable us, O Lord, to obey Your voice because You are our God and we are Your
people. Enable us to walk in all the ways that You have commanded us,
that it may be well with us.
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Hosea 10:12
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come to us as individual Christians. Enables us, O
Lord, to sow the seed of righteousness in our hearts and to reap the harvest
st of merciful conduct. Enable us, O Lord, to break up that ground
which has lain fallow within our hearts, for it is time for us to seek You,
O Lord, till You come to us and rain upon us the ability to live righteously
as a shower from heaven.
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Micah 4:5
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O Lord, may Your kingdom be realized in our individual lives. The people of
the nations, O Lord, walk each in the name of his god, but may we, O Lord,
walk in Your name forever and ever.
For You and You alone, O Lord, are the living and true God.
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Matthew 5:20
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come. May our personal righteousness be genuine and
sincere and not the superficial and hypocritical righteousness that
characterized so many of the Pharisees. May we keep the spirit of Your law as
well as its letter. May we not allow the traditions of men either to nullify
Your commands or to add to them legalistic burdens for ourselves and
others to bear.
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Matthew 16:24-25
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come to us as individuals. May we deny our own
selfish desires in life and take up the crosses which You have sovereignly sent
us. May we follow the example of faithful obedience and submission to Your
will
which we find in the life of Jesus. May we not try to fulfill our lives
through selfish pursuits and thus lose our lives. May we instead, O Lord,
lose our lives in Your faithful service and thus find them.
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Matthew 21:1-3
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O Lord, may we be of service to You, even as that colt of a donkey which
Jesus rode into Jerusalem in His Triumphal Entry was of service to Him.
Jesus used that untrained and immature colt in the work of Your kingdom.
Even so, O Lord, use us, and honor us with the words, "The Lord has need of
them."
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Mark 3:35
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O Lord, enable us to obey Your revealed will. For Jesus said, "Whoever does
the will of God is My brother and My sister and My mother."
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Mark 9:24
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come to us as individuals. We pray, as the man
prayed who brought his demon possessed son to Jesus for healing,
"We believe; help our unbelief!"
Work in us today through Your Holy Spirit and Your inspired word to
strengthen and confirm our faith.
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Luke 12:43
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O Lord, enable us as individuals to be good stewards of all that You have
entrusted to us while Jesus, who is our Master, is on His long journey to
Your right hand in heaven. When Jesus comes to hold us to account,
either through His Holy Spirit at the time of our death or in His glorified
physical body when He returns to earth at the end of this age, may He find
us serving Him faithfully. For blessed is the servant whom his master finds
so doing
when he comes.
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Acts 20:32
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We pray that You will use Your word,Your revealed will, in our lives, for
Your word is an instrument of Your grace that is able to build us up and to
give us an inheritance among those who are sanctified.
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Acts 20:32
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Through the ministry of Your word of grace, the Scriptures, we pray that You
will build us up in our faith in Christ and give us an inheritance among
those who are sanctified.
For Your word builds us up in holiness and comfort through faith unto
salvation.
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Romans 5:3-5
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O Lord, may Your righteous rule be realized in our lives as individuals.
Enable us to glory in our tribulations, knowing that You use our tribulations
to produce perseverance, and perseverance, character, and character, hope.
And we know, O Lord, that the hope which You have given to us will not
disappoint us, because an assurance of Your love for us has been poured out in
our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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Romans 12:1
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May Your kingdom come into our lives as individuals. Enable us to present our
bodies to You as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to You, which is
our reasonable service.
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Romans 12:2
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come to us as individuals. May Your righteous rule
be established in our individual lives.
May we not be conformed to this world, but rather may we be transformed by
the renewing of our minds, that we may prove through our own life experience
that Your revealed will, O Lord, is good and acceptable and perfect.
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Ephesians 4:4-6; John 17:20-21; Jer 32:39
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We pray for all who believe in Christ, that they may all be one. Because
there is one body and one Spirit and one hope that belongs to our call, one
Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all,
give to all Christians to be of one heart and one way.
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Ephesians 4:12-15
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Sanctify us, increase our faith and its fruits in our lives. Enable us to
fulfill the law of love through works of service in the church. Enable us to
build one another up by speaking the truth in love.
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Philippians 3:10; John 11:25
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We pray that You will increase our faith in Him who is the Resurrection and
the Life that we might increasingly know Him and the power of His resurrection
even as we experience the fellowship of His suffering in the trials
of this life.
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Colossians 2:6-7
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O Lord, even as we have received Christ Jesus the Lord by looking to Him in
faith, enable us so to walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and
established in the faith and abounding in thanksgiving.
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Colossians 3:1-2
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Give us spiritual life, O Lord. Raise us up with Christ, and enable us to
seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand
of God. Enable us to set your minds on things above and not on things on
earth.
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Colossians 3:12-13
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We also pray for the coming of Your kingdom, O Lord, in our individual lives.
Enable us, O Lord, as Your elect, holy and beloved, to put on tender
mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering,
bearing with one another and forgiving one another, even as Christ forgave
us.
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Colossians 3:14
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Lord, enable each of us to put on and wear as a garment that love which is
the bond of perfection, the bond which binds everything together in perfect
harmony.
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Colossians 4:5-6
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Enable us to walk in wisdom toward those who are outside the faith. Enable
us to redeem the time, for the days are evil. May our speech always be with
grace, seasoned with salt, that we may know how we ought to answer in
every conversation.
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1 Thessalonians 2:12
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We pray that we might walk worthy of You, O God; that we might walk worthy
of You who are calling us into Your own kingdom and glory.
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1 Thessalonians 3:12-13
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O Lord, we pray for the coming of Your kingdom in our individual hearts and
lives. Make us each to increase and abound in love to one another and to all
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and thus, O Lord, confirm that we are indeed among those whose hearts You
will establish blameless in holiness before You at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ with all His saints.
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1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
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Enable us, O Lord, to rejoice always, to pray without ceasing, and in every
thing to give thanks; for we know that this is the way You would have us to
live in Christ Jesus.
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2 Timothy 2:3-4
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O Lord, we pray for the coming of Your kingdom in our individual lives.
Enable us to endure hardship as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. May we conduct
ourselves as those engaged in warfare and not entangle ourselves
with the affairs of this life, that we may please him who enlisted us as
soldiers.
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2 Timothy 2:15
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O Lord, enable us to be workers whom you approve, workers who do not need
to be ashamed, workers who can rightly, accurately, correctly handle the
word of truth.
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Titus 2:14
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We pray for the coming of Your kingdom into our individual lives. We pray
that Jesus will redeem us from every lawless deed and purify us for Himself
as His own special people, zealous for good works.
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Hebrews 8:10
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come into our lives as individuals. O Lord, put
Your laws in our minds such that we not only hear them read but also remember
them and understand them and apply them to the life we are living.
Also, O Lord, write Your laws upon our heart such that living in a way which
pleases You becomes our deepest desire and aspiration in life.
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Hebrews 12:28-29
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come into each of our lives, for Yours is a kingdom
which cannot be shaken. Let us have grace, O God, by which we may serve
You acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for You, our God, are a
consuming fire.
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Hebrews 13:20-21
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We pray that You, the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal
covenant, will equip us with everything good that we may do Your will,
working in us that which is pleasing in Your sight, through Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 13:21
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O Lord, may Your kingdom come in our individual lives. Make us complete, O
Lord, in every good work to do Your will, working in us what is well pleasing
in Your sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.
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