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. ⁠

How do breath prayers help you?

Share a breath prayer you’ve written.

Breath Prayers Based on Mark 14
The Plot to Kill Jesus

IN: Jesus,
OUT: Stop our scheming

IN: Jesus,
OUT: Reveal all that is hidden

IN: Jesus, deliver us
OUT: from evil and corruption

IN: Jesus, remove the violence
OUT: from our hearts, our mouths, our hands

IN: Jesus, I betray you
OUT: Jesus, I deny you

IN: Jesus,
OUT: Awaken me

IN: Jesus,
OUT: help me do what I can

IN: Jesus, I follow
OUT: Jesus, I’m yours

Breath Prayers Based on Mark 15
The Passion of the Christ

IN: Glory to you, O Christ
OUT: a willing sacrifice

IN: Glory to you, O Christ
OUT: a victim of injustice

IN: Glory to you, O Christ
OUT: flogged and mocked

IN: Glory to you, O Christ
OUT: beaten and humiliated

IN: Glory to you, O Christ
OUT: crowned with thorns

IN: Glory to you, O Christ
OUT: taunted and forsaken

IN: Glory to you, O Christ
OUT: crucified

IN: Glory to you, O Christ
OUT: laid in a tomb

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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 Matthew 14-15 © 2020 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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