Walking in love

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. I want to choose love more fully in my life. And I know that I cannot without your help. Jesus said, "Apart from me, you can do nothing." So Jesus, I ask, your help. I ask your help, letting go of the barriers to love. Help me to more fully choose love today. Help me let go of my fear. I fear of sadness. Help me let go of pride. So I can choose love. Help me, to ackn...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. I ask. that out of your great goodness, you would make known to me and take out of my heart every kind and form and degree of pride, whether it be from evil spirits or my own corrupt nature Awaken in me, the deepest depth, and truth of that humility which can make me capable of your light and Holy Spirit Amen

Come, Holy Spirit, we ask that you would give us docile spirits. interested and ready to hear every word from you, desiring to be led by you patiently and gently, seeking to do your will and wanting to be sensitive in attentive to your leading. We ask you for this docility. Help us to let go of willfulness, help us to be open to the idea that we might be wrong, help us to be open to the idea that...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. I ask that you would renew my mind. open my eyes, bring me to a deeper awareness of the opportunities for love today. As I go throughout my day, help my mind and my heart, to return to this thought as a bird returns to its nest. I want to walk in love today. I wanted to grow in love today. Help me to see in the circumstances I find myself in for the day. Where the op...

Transcript: Jesus, you say that your Father has hidden... the things that are most true and most beautiful about this world. From the wise and the learned. But he has revealed them to little children. I ask for grace. to become like a little child. Help me to be.. open to whatever you are wanting to show me. Help me to be open to that truth and that beauty and that wisdom that is beyond human purs...

Source: Jacques Philippe’s book “Nine days to strengthen your faith”. If you like this, you might also be interested in his book “in the school of the Holy Spirit” Transcript: Holy Spirit, you who are light, you who are the consoler... come and guide my prayer today. Come, fill me with your soft presence. Awaken my heart to God's love. Make trust and faith grow in me. Amen.

Inspired by Jesus’ words in the sermon on the mount “First take the log out of your own eye” Transcript: Come Holy Spirit, Help me to engage with honesty and courage. with my own faults and failures. I Think of what you said in the Sermon on the Mount. How can you say to your brother or sister? "Let me take this back out of your eye. and you have a log in your own. First, take the log out of your...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit.. I ask you for the. Creative imagination. to take these big theological ideas, these beautiful ideas… Every person being made in the image of God. of Jesus, in some mysterious way, being in. Every person we meet, especially those who are poor and weak…the unity of the Global Church, one church. I ask for the creative imagination and your guidance. to say, what is the...

This was inspired by sections in a book by Jacques Philippe called “Called to Life”, specifically sections about hearing from God through the Bible and the section about lectio Divina at the end. Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. I want you to make these words of Scripture real to me. I come to you with a desire to be changed. To be fed and refreshed, strengthened by the life and power that is in the...

Ignatius has so much rich teaching and prayers. I think I originally found this one via Timothy Gallagher, though I re-found it through Jess Ray, who has beautiful song version of this prayer called “Suscipe” Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my entire will, all that I have and possess. You have given all of it to me. And to you....

This is an example of one way of praying the Lord’s Prayer, using each request as a jumping off point to explore and express related desires. It has been rightly said that all prayer is contained in the Lord’s Prayer. Transcript: Father, I want everyone to. Know you and enjoy you. To see and experience your goodness, and treasure you. I want your way of doing things to triumph in the world, on Ear...

I found this prayer in Appendix I of “In The School of the Holy Spirit” by Jacques Philippe Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Help my imagination to be... quiet. Help me to close my eyes. to everything other than you. To shut my ears, to all of the noise of the world. Help me to withdraw. to the sanctuary of my baptized soul. Which is your temple. Holy Spirit. Soul of my soul. I adore you. Enlighten...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Give me grace. to resist. The enemy at the very beginning of the temptations. I ask. for power from you to be bold and decisive and rejecting temptation. Quick to reject it. Help me to do diametrically the opposite.. of what the enemy. proposes. Help me to see the truth that. If I give the enemy a little ground, it becomes so much harder to resist. That to give him....

Prayer for maturity in consolation and desolation (Ignatius rule 11) Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. When I am in consolation. Help me to focus on humbling myself. And lowering myself as much as I can. Thinking about how when I was in time of desolation. How little I was able to do. without your grace and consolation. I'm thinking about. in future seasons at Desolation, how. How little I'll be able...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. I ask that you would help Logan to become more aware of whatever special inspirations of grace you have for him. help him to notice your voice Help him to know you as his guide. his counselor. I pray that you would give him grace to respond. to your direction, with trust, to do what you ask Him to do, to abandon himself to you, that he might receive even more grace t...

This prayer is inspired by a passage on page 28 of a book called “The Sound of Life’s Unspeakable Beauty” by Martin Schleske. Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit, you are welcome in my heart and in my life. I desire your presence. Help me to become aware of. Any part of me that is not welcoming you. May I not be mixed: part of me welcoming you and part of me shunning you. Help me to become aware so that...

Transcript: Come, holy spirit, I ask that you would help me to let go of selfish reasons for doing things: leaving a conversation when it's no longer interesting to me.. Being part of something, if there's something in it for me. Doing something because it's convenient for me. So much of my life is still mired in that, in the way I think and my habits, But sometimes by your grace, I do something f...

Inspired by Frank Laubach and his book “Prayer - the mightiest force in the world” Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. I want to be a conduit of your love today. May my eyes look with love. May I see the inherent goodness and dignity. of every person. May I see. the sorrows that they are carrying, the wounds that they have. and be kindled with compassion and gentleness for them. May my ears, listen wit...

Transcript: Come Holy Spirit I come to you in surrender thinking about how many times my thoughts and heart have been. shipwrecked on mystery and paradox. and how my dualistic, rational mind. just struggles and cannot understand. those things, cannot understand You, first of all. Life, death. suffering. Grace. Forgiveness, love. So I come to you acknowledging these things are beyond me. I let go o...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Help me to hear how what you are saying to me. You know I have. so many thoughts. Feelings in my heart. Things around me and within me that are distracting. In your grace I ask that you would help me to let go. To be able to hear you. I want to hear what you're saying to me. I know that many times I have.. ignored what you have been saying. And my ears. have become d...

Come Holy Spirit, Help me to see and believe in my heart of hearts that indulgence in my own desires can never bring me the kind of deep peace and contentment that I long for. Help me to see the truth of that. And to see it as a dead end. And abandon it as a strategy. To help me to see the pattern. of becoming excited about some new shiny thing. Something that I desire and indulging in it. Experie...

Transcript: Come Holy Spirit. I surrender. to the love that you have for me in this moment. Help me to surrender. I yield to the love that you have for me in this moment. Help me to yield. I accept.. that in this moment, I am precious to you. and you have great love for me. Help me to accept that. I release. anything that would block me.. From accepting that you love me in this moment. help me to...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit I pray for miles. I pray that you would. Fill him with hope. that you. are working in the lives of many, many people are around the world.. That you are. mending their souls. that you are kindling in them. The holy love of you.. That you are transforming them into the kind of people who whose lives are centered around Agape love. And more and more they love you with t...

Transcript: Come Holy Spirit, kindle in us compassion and love for others. Empathy. so that we might remember those who are imprisoned as if we ourselves were in prison. And that we might remember all people who are mistreated. as if we ourselves, were experiencing their suffering. Help us to pray. and to work. And to live. In this way, where we consider ourselves and experience ourselves to be co...

Transcript: Come Holy Spirit,I want to be a more compassionate person. I ask that by your grace. You would fill me with compassion. Help me to be. slow to speak. Slow to get angry. Quick to listen. Quick to affirm. and encourage. Kindle in me. Tenderness. Gentleness. Empathy for the people around me. Help me to grow in my awareness of their needs and their emotions. Help me to keep always in mind...