Walking in love

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...

Transcript: Come Holy Spirit, help me to become aware of the things that I think I need to happen today. in order for me to be at peace, to be content with today. Speak to me even now as I sit in silence and tell me what they are. Help me to let go. of the things that are outside of my control.. Help me to be wise about the things that I choose to tether my peace and my contentment to. Help me to...

From 1 John 3:18 Transcript: Come holy spirit, I ask that you would Help me today to have love. That is not in word only. But expresses itself, an action. And this true love, has its source in you. Let me love, not in word only. But in deed, and in truth. Renew my mind. and my heart. that I have a vision. of what it would look like, to love the people that I will encounter today. And help me to ac...

From Galatians 5-6. Transcript: Come Holy spirit. I ask that you would. shine the light of faith into Chris's heart and mind. May he know that you cannot be mocked. May he know that he and every other person will reap what they sow. May he be aware of the great. Distinction between... sowing to please his flesh and sowing to please the Spirit. Help him to let go of sowing to the flesh. by your gra...

Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Help me to recognize the voice of Jesus. Like he talks about in John 10. Help me with that simple, fundamental, ability. There are many voices in the world. Many of them eloquent and persuasive and passionate. Many of them that have the words from Holy Scripture in their mouths. Help me to. be able to recognize. which ones. in which ones, Jesus is speaking. in which...

Transcript: Come Holy Spirit. I ask that you would give Terri the love of silence. Help her to. come to enjoy. Spending time alone with you. And may she have experiences, where she's able to hear your voice. Experiences that she treasures. May she notice. as she's able to observe her own feelings more clearly. How her thoughts are clearer. May silence become... this special place for her or she me...

Further reading: - Aquinas on peace (or Peter Kreefts summary) - the rare jewel of Christian contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs Transcript: Come Holy Spirit, help me to become aware of the things that I think I need to happen today. in order for me to be at peace, to be content with today. Speak to me even now as I sit in silence and tell me what they are. Help me to let go. of the things that are...