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Christianity - Protestantism - Methodist Prayers

The Beauty of This Path:

For me, the beauty of the Methodist path is its focus on individual responsibility for the "betterment" of society. This path takes its name from the "rule and method" that govern the lives of its followers. The goal of these rules and methods is to actively "help us to retune our lives to the silent music of God's beckoning presence." It is the best possible karma to "see and meet many people" and to remember that "in them" we always are "meeting" God. Karmically, seeing God in all others creates true greatness.

Prayer Index: Christianity - Protestantism - Methodist Prayers

Opening Prayer
Prayer of Penitence
Prayer of the Morning
Closing Prayer

Hymn: Eternal Father, Strong to Save
Hymn: For the Beauty of the Earth

Opening Prayer

O Lord, open our lips and we shall praise your name.
Send out your light and truth to be my guide;
let them lead me to your holy hill, to your dwelling place.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be for ever. Amen.

Prayer of Penitence

Lord of all life, I use thousands of words each day yet so few of them are about you. Forgive me. I see and meet many people but forget that in them I could be meeting you. I busy myself in so much rushed activity that I blank out the silence within. Forgive me. Help me to retune our lives to the silent music of your beckoning presence. Amen.

Prayer of the Morning

Blessed are you, Lord our God, Giver of life, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. At the opening of this day you call us out of darkness into your marvelous light. Blessed are you for ever and ever. Amen.

Closing Prayer

Lord our God, as with all creation, we offer you the life of this new day, give us grace to love and serve you to the praise of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Hymn: Eternal Father, Strong to Save (William Whiting)

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who biddest the mighty ocean deep,
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard,
And hushed their raging at Thy Word,
Who walked on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood,
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Trinity of love and power!
Our family shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect us wheresoever we go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee!
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

Hymn: For the Beauty of the Earth (Francis Pierpoint)

For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth,
Over and around us lies,
Lord of all, to thee we raise,
This our grateful hymn of praise.

For the beauty of each hour,
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flower,
Sun and moon and stars of light,
Lord of all, to thee we raise,
This our grateful hymn of praise.

For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth, and friends above,
Pleasures pure and undefiled,
Lord of all, to thee we raise,
This our grateful hymn of praise.

For each perfect gift of thine,
To our race so freely given,
Graces human and divine,
Flowers of earth and buds of heaven,
Lord of all, to thee we raise,
This our grateful hymn of praise.

For thy Church which evermore,
Lifteth holy hands above,
Offering up on every shore,
Her pure sacrifice of love,
Lord of all, to thee we raise,
This our grateful hymn of praise.