Author: mgreen

  • A Collect for Sustenance

    A Collect for Sustenance

    Our Father in heaven, who watches over us all with love and care, give to us all we need to sustain us, that we would grow ever more in trust of you and have strength enough to fulfil the works that you have prepared for us to do, through Christ our Lord, who reigns with…

  • A Collect for Increasing Faith in Jesus

    A Collect for Increasing Faith in Jesus

    Rabbi Jesus, our teacher and Lord, increase our faith and trust in you and your words, that we might be able to perform the works of God and rest secure in your promises for this life and the next, through you who reigns over all things with the Father and Holy Spirit in glory forever…

  • A Collect to Seek What Lasts

    A Collect to Seek What Lasts

    Indwelling Spirit, our counselor and source of true wisdom, incline our hearts towards what ultimately matters and will satisfy, that we not waste our energy of things that perish but find the food that leads to eternal life, through Christ Jesus our Lord who reigns with you and the Father in glory forever and ever.…

  • A Collect for a Mature Love for Christ

    A Collect for a Mature Love for Christ

    Blessed Jesus, who still works miracles in the world, teach us to understand when we seek you for your gifts and when we seek you for yourself, that our love for you would be mature and pure, seeking not merely ourselves, but the relationship that you desire, through you who lives and reigns with the…

  • A Collect for Deliverance

    A Collect for Deliverance

    Lord God, you who raise up kings and cast down nations, deliver us from our troubles, that we would rejoice in your goodness and salvation and would live to praise you another day in peace and safety because of your love, through Christ our redeemer who reigns with you and the Holy Spirit over all…

  • A Collect to Care for the Poor

    A Collect to Care for the Poor

    God of compassion, who gives refuge to those whose need is great, draw our hearts to care for the poor, that we would see them as you do: beloved children who deserve to be seen, known, and cared for and members of the body of humankind and potentially of your church, through Christ our Savior,…

  • A Collect to be Saved from Our Foolishness

    A Collect to be Saved from Our Foolishness

    Holy God, in whom there is no hint of darkness, save us from our own foolishness, that with you we might turn from our corruption and sins and instead fulfill the good that you have prepared for us to do in loving you and those you place around us, through Christ Jesus our Lord who…

  • A Collect to Be Transformed

    A Collect to Be Transformed

    Almighty God, who can accomplish far more than we understand, work within our hearts, that we would be transformed by your presence, your power, and your love and become more than we even have capacity to imagine before seeing your goodness with our own eyes, through Christ Jesus our redeemer, who reigns with you and…

  • A Collect to Know the Love of Christ

    A Collect to Know the Love of Christ

    Holy Spirit of Christ, who abides within our very being, grant us understanding to know the greatness of the love of Christ, that we may be filled with that love and saturated entirely with it, made secure in the firm belief that God will never let us go, through Christ our Lord, who reigns with…

  • A Collect to be Rooted in God’s Love

    A Collect to be Rooted in God’s Love

    God of love and all goodness, in whom we live and move and have our being, ground our hearts in your love, that we would be secure in our connection to you and rooted in your goodness, able to bear all that passes knowing that we are never disconnected from you, through Christ Jesus your…