Noontime Prayer

Psalm

Read an appropriate psalm, out loud if possible. I suggest one of the following psalms:

Reading

Find an appropriate Bible passage, then read it—out loud, if possible—and think about how it relates to you. I suggest the following:

Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
—Romans 5:5

For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
—2 Corinthians 4:6

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
—2 Corinthians 5:17-18

Prayer

Pray thanksgivings and petitions; asking God for your specific needs as you see them and giving thanks for specific things in your life. You can pray one gargantuan prayer, or a series of small prayers. You can pray the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father), or you can use it as an outline for a prayer of your own.

Address God with praises: “Our Father, who art…”
Submit to God’s will: “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done…”
Ask for your specific physical needs: “Give us this day our daily bread…”
Ask for forgiveness: “Forgive us our debts…”
To the degree that you yourself are willing to forgive others…: “As we forgive our debtors…”
Ask for help with temptations: “Lead us not into temptation…”
And preservation from evil: “Deliver us from evil…”

Collect

End by praying this or a similar prayer:

Blessed Savior, at this hour you hung upon the cross, stretching out your loving arms: Grant that all the peoples of the earth may look to you and be saved; for your mercies’ sake. AMEN.

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