Breath Prayers Based on Luke 15-16

Posted on July 30, 2020 by revlisad

Breath Prayers based on Luke 15:1-7
The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Silently pray the phrase after IN on your breath in. Then silently pray the phrase after OUT on your breath out. Take your time. Breathe deeply. Choose one, a few, or all of them as is most helpful to you. ⁠

IN: Jesus, I’m listening
OUT:

IN: Heal my grumbling, Jesus
OUT:

IN: Good Shepherd
OUT: Find me

IN: Good Shepherd
OUT: Find ____________

IN: Good Shepherd
OUT: Carry me

IN: Good Shepherd
OUT: Carry ____________

IN: Let us rejoice
OUT:

Breath Prayers based on Luke 16:19-31
The Rich Man and Lazarus the Beggar

Inspired by the Rich Man
IN: Help me see
OUT: And share my blessings

IN: Grant me
OUT: A glad and generous heart

IN: Reveal who I
OUT: Can help today

IN:
OUT: Help me help

IN:
OUT: Save me from me

IN:
OUT: Have mercy on me

Inspired by Lazarus the Beggar
IN:
OUT: Satisfy my hunger

IN: Heal me
OUT: Help me

IN: You are with me
OUT: I am not forgotten

Inspired by the conversation with Abraham
IN: My choices
OUT: Ripple through eternity

IN: Help me share your truth
OUT: While there’s time

IN: Lead me to
OUT: a faithful end

_______________

For the next few months, I’m reading a chapter from the Gospels each day. This is part of the Summer in the Scriptures reading plan sponsored by the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. Click Here for the reading plan.

You’re most welcome to read along and to join the Facebook discussion group, Summer in the Scriptures. You don’t need to be a Methodist or attend a Methodist church. All are welcome and all means all.

As part of the Facebook group, I’ve been supplying prayers based on the day’s reading. Feel free to post your prayers and observations based on the readings here or there as well.

May the grace of the Gospels, the challenge, and the call, inspire us to great faith and great good works in Jesus’ name. – Lisa <

Breath Prayers based on Luke 15-16 © 2020 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Find us and Flood us (2 Corinthians 4)

Posted on August 11, 2017 by revlisad

Based on 2 Corinthians 4:7-15

The power is from you, Glorious One
An extraordinary power to persevere
and to speak

It comes to my mortality
to my frail clay
to my dust
You hold me and wash me and form me
that I may carry your power as it carries me

O the glory of your grace
Grace extending more and more
more and more to me and more and more through me to others
Your Spirit of faith and life flowing, flooding…

Find us, glorious one
Find us all for we are your treasure
Find us and raise us from the earth
that we may dance at your throne
that we may sing and shout our thanksgiving
to the honor and glory of your name forever
Amen!

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Sermon Recording: God’s Grace, Seeking and Meeting

Posted on February 10, 2016 by revlisad

Message: God’s Grace, Seeking and Meeting (message 1 of 3)
Scriptures: Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; Luke 15:4-10; Romans 5:8
Offered 1/24/16, at Trinity United Methodist Church, Sarasota FL

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Romans 3:23
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Luke 15:4-10
Parable of the Lost Sheep
4 Jesus said, “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? 5 When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. 6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

The Parable of the Lost Coin
8 “Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? 9 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Romans 5:8
God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.

Christ Who Sees the Little and the Lost
from The Awkward Season: Prayers for Lent by Pamela C. Hawkins
O Christ who sees the little and the lost:
the child,
the lamb,
the lost coin.
Widen my eyes with your compassion;
clear my vision with your justice;
soften my gaze with your tears for all who need my prayers today.
Amen.

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