Prayers

~ Opening Prayer ~

“Your grace and mercy Lord, your grace and mercy have brought me through. Lord, if it was not for you, I would not be alive right now.” I just want to thank you for your grace and mercy has kept me.

“When all hope was gone and it seemed like there was no way out, your grace and mercy said, ‘I love You with an everlasting love.’ Yes Jehovah Shammah, You were right there to deliver. You are the only one that cares and understands. You looked beyond my faults and saw my needs.

“Oh Lord, your grace and mercy has brought me through. I don’t know what I would have done without You. Without You I would not have made it. Oh Lord, when I was broken and tossed aside, You were there. God, your grace and mercy brought me through.

“Oh yes, when the doctor could not help me, your grace and mercy Lord was sufficient for me. I could not have made it without you. Yes Lord, your grace and mercy brought me through. When I was weak, Oh Lord, You gave me strength.

“When no one understood my pain, You were the only one that could understand. Lord, your grace and mercy kept me. Oh yes, it was your mercy. It was your mercy Lord that brought me through.

“When no one seemed to understand, You understood me. Your grace and mercy Lord has kept me alive. Oh yes, if it was not for You Lord, being on my side, where would I be? Mercy Lord, your mercy lifted me up.

“When my heart was broken, torn, and tossed aside, when my love was betrayed and the pain became unbearable, when I became mentally exhausted, all enthusiasm was gone, everything seemed hopeless.

“When there were scars on my heart and my soul became weak, Lord You gave me strength and healed my broken heart.

“When I felt I lost my self-worth and all hope was gone, Lord your grace and mercy kept me, when no one seemed to understand and the pain lingered on.

“Can you truly say, ‘I can love again?’ Oh yes, Lord You said your grace is sufficient for thee, and your strength is made perfect in my weakness.

“Lord, can I love again?”

~ A Prayer ~
~ For Our Marriages and Families ~

Heavenly Father we come humbly before you with nothing in our hands we bring but simple to the cross we come believing that you are able to see us through.

Oh Lord, we want to thank you for your grace and mercy and your loving kindness. You grace and mercy will bring us through. We are living this moment because of you.

Oh Jesus, morning-by-morning new mercies we have seen. All we have needed your hands have provided. Great is thy faithfulness unto us O Lord.

I pray you bless marriages especially those that seem hopeless and those that are in retreat and those that are good. Keep them in the palm of your hand and let no harm come nigh there dwellings.

We come to you believing that you are able to keep our marriages and our families together. For your word said whom you put together let no man put asunder.

Lord we ask that you guide us and protect us. Give us wisdom, knowledge and understanding, most of all love and trust in our relationships. Teach us to depend upon you for guidance and direction. Let no harm come nigh our dwelling. Bless us in everything we do and say. Let the word of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight Oh Lord.

Help us to grow our children in Godly fear that when they grow old they will never depart from it.

For those who are engaged help them to get the right counseling so that their relationships will be founded on you.

And for our young sons and daughters help them to marry the right partners and let their marriages be prosperous and fruitful.

Lord we dedicate our children to you. We ask that their lives will be directed by you. In their walking and their talking teach them to acknowledge you as Lord and Savior. Bless their going out and their coming in through your Name and mercy sake.

Lord we thank you for your grace and mercy sake.

Thank you for your grace and mercy sake, for your grace and mercy can bring us through. We are living this moment because of you. We want to thank you and praise you too, your grace and mercy brought us through.

A song to keep your heart in tune with God:

For us to get rid of some of the hurt and the pain and the disappointment in our hearts we have to allow the Lord to empty us, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness and anything that would clog the heart of man.

We must ask Jesus to:

Empty me Lord my heart is broken.
My heart is broken Lord.
There are scars on my heart
that this world gave to me.
Empty me. My soul is weary.
My is soul is weary Lord.
There are things inside only you can see:
From all the heart aches,
the troubles and the sorrows.
From all the tears that these eyes have seem.
From all terror and all this memory.
Lord all I am asking for you to empty me.
All I am asking for you to empty me Lord.
Empty me. My heart is broken,
my heart is broken Lord.
There are scars on my heart
that this world gave to me
Empty me. My soul is weary,
my soul is weary Lord
There are things inside only you can see.
If there is someone that I hurt on my journey.
And there are some things
I do that was not of you.
Search me thoroughly and make me holy
All I am asking for you to empty me Lord
Empty me Lord. My heart is broken.
My heart is broken Lord.
There are scars on my heart
that this world gave to me.
Empty me. My soul is weary.
My is soul is weary Lord.
There are things inside only you can see.
Oh Yes, Lord there’s things inside only you can see.
(Author Unknown)