19^th January 2017

Prayer: Learning Discipleship

A prayer for use after reflecting on John1:29-42 and Matt. 4: 12-23.

 

Lord you know my present circumstances,

my role and vocation in life.

As a full-time carer, student or retired person ……….

living in a fast-moving world, I want to follow you.

I want to discern what it means

to be your disciple in the 21^st century

and to follow you through 2017.

 

I lay my plans, ambitions or vocation before you.

Like the disciples who heard your call

make me ready to let go of the

nets and boats in my life,

the securities and distracting pre-occupations

that crowd in on me.

Make me open to your special call

to change my priorities.

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In the year ahead, I want to be your

un-distracted learner so that my thinking

and everyday life-style choices, more accurately

reflect your presence in my life.

Amid a time of complicated rapid change,

help me to follow you more clearly

so that I know what to embrace with gratitude

and what to resist with courage.

 

Above all, change wrong attitudes so that my understanding

of other people grows and matures.

By the Holy Spirit make me your partner and associate

in being a ‘fisher of people.’

Open doors of opportunity to serve others

and to share the difference you have made in my life

so that other people may be drawn to you and into your

eternal kingdom now and for ever. AMEN

Rev. E. A. Curnow