For the Week Before Easter

"May we make you our passover Lamb, Saviour of mankind. Close for us the dark, sad days of sin's bondage. May we constantly remember your wonderful love and sacrifice for us, in dying that we might be forgiven. And may our hearts ever keep their passover in gratitude and devotion. Amen."

January 26

"Our loving God, we your humble children thank you for your forgiveness and your love. Conscious of our own weakness and failure, we prize the more your great sacrifice and grace. May we tell the story of your grace to those who are hopeless without you, and thus save them and those dear to them, for Christ's sake. Amen."

November 18

"We thank you, our heavenly Father, that the very sins of our hearts which you despise are capable of your loving forgiveness, if we truly repent. We thank you that you see in us a development which transforms wicked inclination into righteous purpose. Destroy, we pray you, the selfishness in us which tempts us to deceive. For Christ's sake. Amen."

November 6

"Our blessed Master, we pray that none of us may allow the evil inclinations and tendencies of our own hearts to get the better of us. May we overcome them by loving deeds and self-forgetfulness. If some one wrong us today, help us to return his evil deed by a kindness to him. Amen."

November 3

"Dear loving Father, we thank you that you have so freely and wonderfully forgiven us. Who of us is worthy of serving you or of following in your footsteps? Yet you have freely and fully forgiven us, and restored unto us the joy of the Lord. Help us to live for others, and to bear another's burden day by day. Amen."

September 20

"O holy Lord, you who are pure and true, may we gain that vision of you which may prompt us to follow you with constant and unvarying fidelity. Forgive us for our disobedience. May we obey you day by day and moment by moment until your laws are the very habit of our our daily lives. For Jesus' sake. Amen."

September 19

"Most loving and merciful God, we thank you for your great goodness. We praise you that you forgive those who do wrong. May we know that your penalties are just and sure. Save us, we pray you, from the sins that bring suffering and sorrow upon others. And this we ask in Jesus' name. Amen."

July 23

"Our blessed Lord, may no desire to be great surpass our inclination to be forgiving. May we learn your spirit so that we may fulfill the law of God in your way. May we forgive as you have forgiven us, and may we do and teach your commands daily. Amen."

July 21

"Our loving and merciful Father, may your gentleness make us truly great, and may your greatness make us truly humble. In your companionship may we grow like unto you, and become kind, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven us. Amen."

July 20

"Our Father in heaven, we are grateful that you are a forgiving God - that you have so freely forgiven and restored your children. May we have the godly sorrow for sin that works repentance, and may our inward affection toward you be aglow. In Christ's name. Amen."

July 15

"O Master of the winds and waves, sleep in our bark on every troubled sea; and may the calm of your presence and power quell our fears and increase our faith. Speak to our hearts when tossed by doubts and anxieties, and may we be at peace. Amen."

July 3

"As you have borne with us, O God, and freely and constantly forgiven us, may we forbear and forgive one another. May a charitable mind attend us at all times. May we reserve our estimate of others until we know all teh facts adn then withhold unnecessary judgment. May we see the good where others see evil. For Jesus' sake. Amen."

June 14

"Gracious Lord and Master, grant that we may take the place of the humblest of your servants and break the alabaster box of love upon your feet. May we never glory in our external surroundings, but rejoice that you have given to us your mercy and forgiveness in view of our many failures and sins. Amen."

June 8

"Most merciful God, our Father, may we heed your voice calling us to repentance. May neither sacrifice nor religious ceremony take the place of sorrow for sin. May our sorrow lead us farther than sorrow for sin: that we may turn from sin. Be merciful to us, O God, even as you have forgiven our sins. For Christ's sake. Amen."

May 19

"O you who hears prayer and answers in love and forgiveness, may we never lose the blessed association of your friendship through idle reason or criticism. Save us from merely seeing and hearing, but may we be among those who lead the helpless and suffering to you that they may rise and walk. Amen."

May13

"May we learn to remember, our loving Father, that you have not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us as we deserve. As forgiven children may we forgive as we have been forgiven, and ever be plenteous in mercy. In Christ's name. Amen."

May 5

"Help us, most loving Father, to forgive others as you forgive us. May we forget the wrong others have dove us, and remember no longer life's stings and thrusts. May grace and glory entwine our hearts, that we may forgive others and glorify you. Amen."

April 26

"O you who are our mighty Deliverer, deliver us, we pray you from ourselves and the sins of our own hearts. As you made of David a man after your own heart, give to us forgiveness and saving grace that we may be able to break out in joyful song and gratitude for what you have done for us. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen."

April 18

"Teach us, dear Father, the blessedness of forgiveness. May we forgive not because we are compelled to forgive, but because we desire to forgive, gaining your Spirit and showing your life and love in this very forcible way. The harder is it, the more may we fight to overcome. In Christ's mane. Amen."

April 16

"O God, our Father in heaven, when we relize how much you have forgiven us, we wonder that we can ever hold an unforgiving spirit toward those wh have wronged us. May we always, when we pray the Lord's Prayer, remember the clause of forgiveness. For Christ's sake. Amen."