Sacred Meditations

God’s Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. We pray that He would keep us steadfast in His Word. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 or Treasury of Daily Prayer.)

Jesus Christ came not to be served but to serve and to give His life as the ransom for us. We pray that He would forgive our pride and preserve us from hypocrisy, that we may humbly love Him and our neighbors. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in …

Jesus the Christ sits at the right hand of the Father and all enemies are under His feet. We pray that He would grant us the comfort, peace, and joy of His resurrection, that we may love Him and our neighbors. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran …

Our gracious God invites us to the wedding feast of His Son and His bride, the Church. We pray Him to make us worthy to receive His kingdom and rejoice in the foretaste of His banquet as we gather at His table. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in …

Only by God’s gift we can offer Him true and laudable service. So we pray that our gracious God may grant us to run without stumbling toward His heavenly promises. Collect for Proper 26 (the Sunday closest to November 2), from The Book of Common Prayer.

Our heavenly Father warns us against rejecting His Son and His authority over heaven and earth. We pray Him to preserve us from rejecting Jesus that we may receive His kingdom and bear the fruits that He produces in us. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service …

Jesus revealed His gracious kingdom by riding into Jerusalem, cleansing the temple and cursing the fig tree. We pray that He would unite us to Him, the true Vine and cleanse us from our sin, that we may rejoice when He comes to us in His Word and Sacraments. Source: …

God has knit together His elect people into one communion in the mystical body of His Son Jesus Christ. We pray that He would give us grace to follow His blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those unspeakable joys of His eternal kingdom. …

As Jesus healed the two blind men, we pray our heavenly Father to heal our spiritual blindness and give us the eyes of faith. We ask Him to rescue us from our pride and lead us to be both humble and lovely. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in …

The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard teaches us that we live, and work, in God’s kingdom only by grace. Here we pray our Lord to preserve us from pride and grumbling, and grant us gratitude. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 …