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On May 13th -May 23rd 2021
Join the global wave of prayer calling Christians to pray between Ascension and Pentecost for people to come to know the love and peace of Jesus.

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How to use this Prayer Padlet
Each day there is a passage from the Bible, prayers, pictures, and you tube clips for your personal reflection; it's like a digital noticeboard,
You can look across and scroll down on a phone, or on a laptop each coloum has a gray tab on its right side and that will help you see the content. Click on the boxes, to see each segment more clearly
Hope you enjoy this new  format for meditation and prayer.
Easter Blessings
Jane

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"I will pray daily" - Thy Kingdom Come 2021

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We often feel helpless. There is so much change we want to see; in ourselves, in our families and amongst our friends and in the world.
Prayer begins when we come to the only one who can help. He will never leave us helpless.
He staked his life on helping us.
What is it you need?

From Thy Kingdom Come Prayer Journal  2017

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God is a friend of silence. His language is to 'Be still, and know that l am God.'
He requires us to be silent... to discover him.
In the silence of the heart  God speaks.

Eileen and Katherine Egan

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Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them
were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Acts 2: 2-4

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Holy God, we praise you for all that you are.
We thank you for the love we witness through the ebb and flow of cosmic rhythms. We thank you for the grace that you show to us as individuals.

Give to us courage to enact a way of life to which you have called us.  Give us boldness to be holy people, called to serve the world.

May we be kingdom people who always dare to live and speak out, motivated by our faith in God.
Amen

The Revd Carla Quenet
From the Methodist Way of Life

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Wherever you are on the earth, you wish to perceive the mystery that lies at the heart of your heart: do you sense within you, even fleetingly, the silent longing for a prescence?

This simple longing, this simple desire for God, is already the beginning of faith.

From No Greater Love,  Sources of Taize,
Bother Roger

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A fire burning in the human heart, a light in the darkness, he loves you as if you were his sole concern.  He has given his life for you.  That is his secret.

Brother Roger from Taize

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The One we do not know is in our midst. More accessible for some, more hidden for others...
with astonishment each of us might hear him say, 'Why be afraid? I, Jesus, am here; I am the Christ. I loved you first... in you l have set
my joy'.

Brother Roger from Taize

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As soon as Jesus was baptised, he went up out of the water.  At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.
Matthew 3: 16

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Your kingdom come (James & Jessop). Lyric video.

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Psalm 91 (On Eagles' Wings) - Taryn Harbridge

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Everlasting Arms | Lou Fellingham | National Methodist Choir of Great Britain | Virtual Church Choir

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Free Flowing Spirit
gather my loved ones

travel with them

dance with them

lift their spirits

that they may
find their strength

their confidence

their freedom

in you
the ground of their being

Elizabeth Baxter
from Fire and Bread (Iona)

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Thankyou for the  peace and comfort that God's Holy Spirit brings, reflect that God wants you to know peace, not only at Pentecost but always.

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Spirit of the living God
fall afresh on me;
Spirit of the living God
fall afresh on me;
break me, melt me,
mould me, fill me;
Spirit of the living God
fall afresh on me.
Daniel Iverson

Are the words of the song comforting or challenging for you?

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Come Holy Spirit,
come fire of love,
warm the earth with your touch,
cleanse the polluted waters of creation,
restore balance,
bring healing,
pour out energy,
lighten skies
darkened by our sin.

Come Holy Spirit,
come renewed of life,
nourish the potential in us all.
In our work and in our leisure
waken us to fresh opportunities.
In our families and community life
nature and inspire our creativity
in all things.

Come Holy Spirit,
come wind of God,
whisper your tender words of healing
in the ears of the sick,
breathe your spirit of comfort
around those who mourn,
stir hearts hardened by despair
to new life and hope.

Drive us out of our pious ghettos
to glimpse new ways to witness,
new ways to use our wealth,
new ways to work for peace,
new ways of being the people
you call us to be.

Come Holy Spirit
Renew the whole creation.
Amen

By Kate Mcllhagga
From The Green Heart of the Snowdrop

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And so, Lord
somewhere in the distance we meet
Is it eternity
or some future time
Is there a nowness  about it
a separation
and beyond
an otherness
but
togetherness
walking hand in hand
across
the
sands
of
time

And surely I am with you always,
to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:20

Meditation by Liz Babbs from her book
The Celtic Heart

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I enter your silence

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I follow you Jesus

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I give thanks

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I pray for

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I celebrate...

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What are your gifts and talents?
Or what is your personal passion?
If you followed it, who might catch a spark from you?

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Your kingdom come (James & Jessop). Lyric video.

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Creator God
You invite us to share in weaving the cloth of creation,
setting the loom to hold us in the tension of your love,
taking the threads and colours that we offer,
Each strand important to your design.
We bring our broken threads of pain and anxiety,
knots of fear, prejudice, sorrow and regret,
the faded colours of broken dreams and promises,
we bring them to you to fashion
and, in the rythm of the weaver's shuttle,
through the warp and weft of humanity,
you weave the bright colours and textures of our love and laughter,
joy and hope, into a beautiful, vibrant cloth of love and justice to clothe the world.     Amen

Stella Bristow' s book Sensing God

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We Seek Your Kingdom (Official Video) | Noel Robinson, Lou Fellingham, Andy Flannagan, Donna Akodu

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Untitled - Pentecost 2003
From the Methodist Modern Art Collection
Oil on canvas c Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes

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We walk together,
you and I,
talking sometimes,
often in an awesome silence.
Wandering and wondering with you,
Holy Spirit,
unrestrained as the wild winds,
ever-moving as the tides.
Fire of passion.
Still small voice.

Frances Hawley
from Fire and Bread (Iona)

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Focus on your breathing for a minute or two. And then as you breathe in, ask the Holy Spirit to fill you;  imagine the 'breath of God' filling you as your breath goes in. As you breathe  out, ask God to take away the things troubling you.
This prayer uses the fruits of the Spirit, perhaps use it as a prayer to say sorry to God as you replace negative feelings with positive Fruits of his love.

Breathe in:  love
Breathe out:  hate

Breathe in:  joy
Breathe out:  worries

Breathe in:  peace
Breathe out:  stress

Breathe in:  patience
Breathe out:  impatience

Breathe in:  kindness
Breathe out:  pettiness

Breathe in:  goodness
Breathe out: anger

Breathe in:  faithfulness
Beathe out:  selfishness

Breathe in:  gentleness
Breathe out:  hardness

Breathe in:  self-control
Breathe out:  recklessness

From
Sue Wallace's book Multi-Sensory Prayer

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I am sorry

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I adore you

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we give you thanks and praise.
For the love that welcomes the unlikely,
for the love that pardons the unworthy,
for the love that knows no limit,
we give you thanks and praise.

In the love that inspires our worship,
in the love of which we would learn more,
in the love we share in our caring,
we give you thanks and praise.

As your love in us serves our neighbour,
as your love tells it's story through us,
as your love calls us your people,
we give you thanks and praise.
Amen

The Revd Dr Jonathon Hustler,
Secretary of the Conference
From a Methodist Way of Life

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I offer to you

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You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light.
2 Samuel 22:29

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Think about how your faith is like a flame.
Does it burn as brightly as it used to?
Does it need re-igniting after all we have been through?
Imagine lighting the candle.
Offer a prayer of thanks for the way God has helped you shine a light of his love through your words or actions.

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Praise God for the light of salvation in your life and then thank God for the light of your friends and fellow followers and their flames which stand alongside yours.

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I praise you Jesus

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'Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'
Matthew 28: 19-20

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We pray for our community and wider world, that others might know the healing power of God's Holy Spirit.
We pray for energy to carry the flame of God's love into our community.

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I ask for your help

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I do this in your Name

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What is Thy Kingdom Come and how can you take part?