Category: Collects

Heavenly Father, who cares well for your children, we thank you for sending us your spirit to be with us. May we listen for your help and guidance and trust in your presence always. This we ask in the name of your beloved son, Jesus, who reigns with you and the Holy Spirit in glory…

Lord Jesus, who taught us how to live, incline our hearts to love you more and more, that in loving you, we would naturally and with joy fulfill what you ask of us, through you who lives forever in glory with the Father and Holy Spirit in heaven. Amen. “If you love me, you will…

Great teacher, who abides with us still through your Holy Spirit, work in us and through us, that we might continue your works of love and wisdom in the world, bringing about the good that you desire for all people, through you who abides in great joy with the Father in heaven forever. Amen. ‘Very…

Loving Father, who dwells in your people through the Holy Spirit, draw us to hear the words you speak in our hearts, that we would not act merely in our own interests and plans but speak what you would have us speak and do what you would have us do to be a blessing to…

Almighty God, who created us out of an overflow of your great love, we thank you for revealing yourself in your son. May we know you and your character more and more as we look to Jesus’s life and words and come to love you as you love us, through your beloved son who lives…

Son of the Most High, who has opened to us the gates of heaven, may we look to you for our salvation and our life, that we would receive from your hand what is truly good and be welcomed into the presence of the Father in joy, through you who lives and reigns with the…

Lord Jesus, who is preparing a new home for us, come quickly, that we might be with you in both body and spirit and that all might be made right in our troubled world, through you who intercedes for us always before the Father’s throne in the Holy Spirit in glory. Amen. ‘And if I…

Prince of peace, who desires that all might know your presence and comfort, strengthen our trust in you and your love and goodness, that we might be ever more able to lay down our anxieties and worries and rest in your care for us, through you who is preparing a place for us in the…

Lord Jesus, who is the way to the Father, show us where we have sought to save ourselves from all that troubles us, that we could set aside our futile attempts to reach paradise and trust in you to provide, through you who opened the way to heaven where you reign with the Father and…

Suffering servant, who bore our sins willingly, keep us from returning hurt for hurt and inflicting our pain on others, but help us trust in the Father’s justice and goodness, breaking the cycle of suffering, through you who showed us the way to the Father and now reigns in glory in the Holy Spirit forever…