Inspired by Frank Laubach and his book “Prayer - the mightiest force in the world”

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Come, Holy Spirit. I want to be a conduit of your love today.

May my eyes look with love. May I see the inherent goodness and dignity. of every person.

May I see. the sorrows that they are carrying, the wounds that they have. and be kindled with compassion and gentleness for them.

May my ears, listen with love today, to hear what people are really saying. what they're really asking for. Help me to be attentive to their needs.

If they say something good to me, help me to trust it. and not... deny it, but to accept it, with humility. If they say something, critical of me, again, help me to accept it with humility.

Help me to be open to feedback. Help me to grow in awareness. Help me to trust that they... care about me.

May my tongue. speak with love today. May I say things that are true. May I say nothing that is false. May I speak with grace and gentleness. Speaking when love calls for it and being silent, when love calls for it.

May my hands be conduits of love. May I do nothing. In any kind of violent way today with my hands.. may I be gentle, caring. May your love flow through my hands to anyone that I touch. and bring comfort, healing, and warmth. Amen.

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Come Holy Spirit

I come to you in surrender thinking about how many times my thoughts and heart have been. shipwrecked on mystery and paradox.

and how my dualistic, rational mind. just struggles and cannot understand. those things, cannot understand You, first of all.

Life, death. suffering. Grace. Forgiveness, love.

So I come to you acknowledging these things are beyond me. I let go of the desire to try to understand them in a way that completely encircles them and explains them and makes them something that I have power over.

And instead, I come, I surrender to you, saying, I cannot. understand them. I desire to understand them in whatever way, you would have me understand them..

And I. open my hands, and I am ready to receive.

O Lord, My heart is not lifted up. My eyes are not raised too high. I do not occupy myself with things too great, too marvelous for me, but I have calmed and quieted myself like a weaned child. like a weaned child. Like his mother is my soul within me. (Psalm 131)

Amen

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Come, Holy Spirit.

Help me to hear how what you are saying to me. You know I have. so many thoughts. Feelings in my heart. Things around me and within me that are distracting.

In your grace I ask that you would help me to let go. To be able to hear you. I want to hear what you're saying to me.

I know that many times I have.. ignored what you have been saying. And my ears. have become dull. I believe that in your grace you can help me to hear you.

Help me to hear what you're saying.

Amen.

Come Holy Spirit,

Help me to see and believe in my heart of hearts that indulgence in my own desires can never bring me the kind of deep peace and contentment that I long for.

Help me to see the truth of that. And to see it as a dead end. And abandon it as a strategy.

To help me to see the pattern. of becoming excited about some new shiny thing. Something that I desire and indulging in it. Experiencing some kind of brief pleasure or a contentment. before it just melts away into a deeper thirst.

And I feel the poison of indulging my own desires. That makes me feel even further away. from the true peace in the true contentment that I long for.

help me to see that pattern and recognize it the very start when the desire is kindling in me. Help me to bring instead. My thirst and my desires to you. help me to grow and prayer and the capacity to hold those desires. In your presence, lift them up to you. Surrender to you.

Help me to see the beauty and the possibility of. surrendering those desires to you, trusting you. Hoping in you. And that trust and hope expressing itself in love. And loving obedience to you. and loving and humble service to others.

help me to see the possibilities and the promise. of that kind of life in a way that draws me toward it. to choose it more and more for myself. Help me to.. pay attention to other people's stories who have lived that way, and their testimony about how.. It leads to incredible richness. intimacy with you.

It leads to a deep satisfaction and peace and contentment. and help me to also. just pay attention to the beautiful effects that their lives have had in other people. The legacies they have.

help all of that enthrall my heart and my mind, so that more and more. I choose and I want to choose that kind of life for myself. In your mercy and in your grace. help me in this. Amen.

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Come Holy Spirit. I surrender. to the love that you have for me in this moment. Help me to surrender.

I yield to the love that you have for me in this moment. Help me to yield.

I accept.. that in this moment, I am precious to you. and you have great love for me. Help me to accept that.

I release. anything that would block me.. From accepting that you love me in this moment. help me to release those things.

I let go of anything that. I am holding on to that is getting in the way of being with you, of receiving the love that you have from me in this moment.

help me to let go of those things things. I rest in the love that you have for me in this moment. Help me to rest in it.

Amen.

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Come, Holy Spirit I pray for miles. I pray that you would. Fill him with hope. that you. are working in the lives of many, many people are around the world..

That you are. mending their souls. that you are kindling in them. The holy love of you.. That you are transforming them into the kind of people who whose lives are centered around Agape love. And more and more they love you with their whole heart, soul, strength, and mind. and they love their neighbor as themselves.

I pray that you would fill his mind. with this image. of your love. flowing through all these people. to the world. And that it would kindle in him hope. that you are not distant, but you are near.

That he is not the only one who mourns when he sees evil in the world. And that to him. the opportunity is also extended. Your love can flow through him. that your goodness is something that he can know and experience. and trust.

And that he can be part of this group of people. Amen.

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Come Holy Spirit, kindle in us compassion and love for others. Empathy. so that we might remember those who are imprisoned as if we ourselves were in prison.

And that we might remember all people who are mistreated. as if we ourselves, were experiencing their suffering.

Help us to pray. and to work. And to live. In this way, where we consider ourselves and experience ourselves to be connected to others. Especially others who are suffering.

Help us to. cling to them in love. not to ignore. their pain, and not to focus only on. our own experience, our own desires.

Broadenour hearts, Holy Spirit. Kindle in us true. love and affection. Amen.

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Come Holy Spirit,I want to be a more compassionate person.

I ask that by your grace. You would fill me with compassion. Help me to be. slow to speak. Slow to get angry. Quick to listen. Quick to affirm. and encourage.

Kindle in me. Tenderness. Gentleness. Empathy for the people around me. Help me to grow in my awareness of their needs and their emotions.

Help me to keep always in mind that. They likely have. some kind of wounds that they're carrying . And deep desires. that have. have been left unfulfilled, in significant ways.

Help me to be compassionate to the difficulties of their lives. Amen.

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Come Holy Spirit, help me to become aware of the things that I think I need to happen today. in order for me to be at peace, to be content with today.

Speak to me even now as I sit in silence and tell me what they are. Help me to let go. of the things that are outside of my control..

Help me to be wise about the things that I choose to tether my peace and my contentment to. Help me to hold all of them with an open hand. or just preemptively to let go of them.

Help me to grow in my trust, and my capacity to release those things to you. By your grace, help me to get. Eventually, all the way down to the only thing that I need today to be at peace. and to be content. Is your presence. Is the trust. that you are with me. That everything that comes my way. is. within your loving plan for me. Whether it's a joyful thing or a sorrowful thing.

Holy Spirit, that is a hard place to get to. I ask for your help. to grow day by day, in that direction. to have that be my perspective on the day, my attitude for the day, the way that I evaluate whether it's going well.

And the way that I experience peace and contentment in my soul. is more and more. anchored in you and less and less anchored in my feelings and circumstances. I believe it's possible to grow in that direction. I believe that you are eager to help me do that.

Thank you. Amen.

From 1 John 3:18

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Come holy spirit, I ask that you would Help me today to have love. That is not in word only. But expresses itself, an action. And this true love, has its source in you.

Let me love, not in word only. But in deed, and in truth. Renew my mind. and my heart. that I have a vision. of what it would look like, to love the people that I will encounter today. And help me to actually do it. By your grace and by your power. Help me to live it out and not let it stay in my mind, or in my heart.

I am willing. I am willing to be a vessel of your love. I'm willing for my mind to be renewed by you. I'm willing for my heart to be refreshed and purified by you. I am willing for every part of me to become an instrument of love through which you flow. Amen.