Sacred Meditations

In His ministry Jesus healed many with frail and diseased bodies and by His cross and resurrection He has brought life and immortality to light. We pray Him to grant us healing through His Word and Sacraments and raise us up on the Last Day. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily …

By His cross and resurrection, Jesus has disarmed the forces of sin, death, and the devil. We pray Him to grant us confidence in His victory over the powers and principalities. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 or Treasury of Daily Prayer.)

With Jesus’ Parable of the Sower, the text of the hymn “Almighty God, Your Word Is Cast” provides the perfect prayer. (Hymn text from Lutheran Service Book #577.) Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 or Treasury of Daily Prayer.)

God reveals His great love by forgiving sinners. We pray that He would forgive us our extensive debt of sin, so that, like the woman who anointed His Son and washed His feet, we may love much because we have been forgiven much. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found …

Jesus revealed Himself as the coming Savior by healing the infirm, raising the dead, and proclaiming Good News to the poor. We pray Him to grant us to hold His Word sacred, gladly hearing and learning it, that we may be healed in body and soul. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” …

We are not worthy to have Jesus, our healer and giver of life, come under our roof. We pray Him graciously to speak His Word to us that we may be healed of our sins and trust Him as our source of true life. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary …

Our Lord Jesus Christ made Himself known in the breaking of bread (Luke 24:13-35). We pray that He would open our eyes to behold Him in all His redeeming work. Third Sunday of Easter, from The Book of Common Prayer.

Jesus Christ forgives sins and brings life and immortality to light through the Gospel. We pray Him to grant us His bountiful forgiveness, that we may also forgive those who sin against us. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 or Treasury of Daily …

God reveals His eternal reign through the person and ministry of His Son. We pray Him to grant us faith when are reviled and spurned for confessing our Savior. Source: “Sacred Meditations Collects” (Daily Lectionary found in Lutheran Service Book, pages 299-304 or Treasury of Daily Prayer.)

On the seventh day, God rested from His work of creation. We pray Him–by His Son’s incarnation, death on the cross, rest in the tomb and glorious resurrection–to grant us true rest in hearing His Word that we may receive His eternal rest of healing and forgiveness. Source: “Sacred Meditations …