10 Prayers from Historical past to Pray for Your Beloved Ones

1. A Prayer for Beloved Ones

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, at all times in each prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with pleasure, due to your partnership within the gospel from the primary day till now. And I’m positive of this, that he who started work in you’ll deliver it to completion on the day of Jesus Christ. It’s proper for me to really feel this fashion about you all, as a result of I maintain you in my coronary heart, for you might be all partakers with me of grace, each in my imprisonment and within the protection and affirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the love of Christ Jesus. And it’s my prayer that your love might abound an increasing number of, with information and all discernment, so that you could be approve what is great, and so be pure and innocent for the day of Christ, stuffed with the fruit of righteousness that comes by Jesus Christ, to the glory and reward of God.
—Paul the apostle, Philippians 1:3–11

2. A Prayer for Household and Mates

Have mercy, oh Lord, on all these whom you’ve gotten related to us within the bonds of friendship and household. Grant that they, with us, could also be so completely conformed to your holy will that, being cleansed from all sin, we could also be discovered worthy, by the inspiration of your love, to take part collectively within the blessedness of your heavenly kingdom by Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
—Previous Gallican Ceremony

3. A Prayer of Dedication for Kids

To you, oh Lord, I provide my first and final kids. That is my firstborn, and that is my final baby. To you, each have been consecrated by regulation, and they’re choices to you. So sanctify them in your service. Amen.
—Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335–ca. 395), quoting Emmelia of Caesarea (d. 375)

4. A Prayer for Marriage

Oh everlasting and gracious Father, you’ve gotten set marriage aside as a holy thriller, a illustration of the union of Christ together with his church. Please let the Holy Spirit information me in my life as a partner that it could not change into a sin to me, and don’t let the liberties that you’ve righteously given by the holy Jesus change into an event of licentiousness for my very own weak point and sensuality. Please forgive all these irregularities and overly sensual purposes which will, in some extent or different, upset my spirit or hinder my maturity as a Christian. Let me in all experiences and circumstances be severe about my service for you. Let me be affectionate and loving to my partner, a information and good instance for my household, and in all quietness, sobriety, prudence, and peace, a follower of these holy {couples} who’ve served you with godliness and testimony.

Please let the blessings of the everlasting God, the blessings of the appropriate hand and of the left, be upon the physique and soul of your servant, my partner, and let these blessings stay there till we have now come to the tip of a holy and glad life. Please grant that each of us might stay perpetually within the embrace of the holy and everlasting Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)

5. A Prayer for the Conversion of a Father

Oh Lord, together with your gracious and merciful eye, look upon the contrition of my coronary heart. In accordance with your sure promise, stick with me as I acknowledge you to be the maker and defender of all creation. Trigger a spring of water to stand up inside me; give phrases to me as I open my mouth and a thoughts so set on you, the chief cornerstone, in order that your unworthy servant could also be enabled to evangelise to my father, as I ought to, the thriller of your plan of redemption, and take away him by your energy from the futile lies of depraved demons in order that I could ship him to you, his God and Lord, who doesn’t want the demise of us sinners however waits for us to show again and repent in order that you may be glorified forever. Amen.
—John of Damascus (ca. 675–749)

6. A Prayer for College students

Ineffable Creator, who, from the riches of your knowledge, designed three courses of angels and positioned them above the heavens in an exquisite order and distributed the elements of the universe in essentially the most elegant method, you who’re the true supply of sunshine and knowledge, deign to shed upon my understanding a ray of your gentle to take away from me the double darkness of my delivery, the darkness of each sin and ignorance.

You, who make the tongues of kids communicate eloquently and who infuse my lips with the grace of your blessing, give me a eager thoughts for understanding, a capability to retain information, a way and facility for studying, the subtlety of interpretation, and an ample capability for communication. Direct the start, oversee the progress, and convey the duty to completion, you who’re really God and man, who lives and reigns perpetually and ever. Amen.
—Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)

7. A Prayer for the Folks of God

Expensive Lord, keep in mind this metropolis the place your folks dwell and each different metropolis and nation together with your trustworthy followers in them. Oh Lord, keep in mind all who sail and those that journey by land, those that are sick or who’re near demise, and those that are captives in want of freedom. Bear in mind, oh Lord, those that show good fruit, those that domesticate the soil of your holy church and don’t neglect the poor. Grant that, in unity of voice and coronary heart, we might glorify and reward your nice and majestic identify—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—each now and forevermore. Amen.
—The Liturgy of Saint Chrysostom

Grant that, in unity of voice and coronary heart, we might glorify and reward your nice and majestic identify—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—each now and forevermore.

8. A Prayer for Household, Mates, and the Persecuted Church

I don’t wish to pray for myself solely however for all folks, as you’ve gotten taught me. Shine the sunshine of your gospel over the entire coronary heart. Ship those that are persecuted for righteousness’s sake from the palms of those that hate them. Let the spirit of persecution be rooted out from the nations. When will the time come, Lord, that the liberty to worship you and the ability of your gospel will probably be asserted and vindicated by the rulers of this world? When will or not it’s that the governments of this earth will advance true religion with all their assets?

Preserve your gospel in its energy and glory. Let the ministry of your phrase be accompanied by a demonstrable energy of your Spirit in order that the church on earth can be enlarged day by day. Achieve this that the information of you and of holiness would improve and abound amongst all folks.

Look down in mercy on my expensive relations and associates. Bless my dad and mom, siblings, and household with all of the items they want based on your windfall and beauty. Present your like to those that love me and allow me to forgive any who’ve damage me. Allow them to repent of their sins, oh Lord, and partake of your forgiveness.
—Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

9. A Prayer for Mates and Others Who Are Expensive to Us

We ask you to bless folks in every single place, well-known or unknown, wealthy or poor, in order that they’d all faithfully serve you and revel in no matter you establish they want. We particularly ask that you’d prepare stability and peace within the affairs of this world by your windfall. We ask this in order that your church can joyfully serve you in all quietness.

We go away all we have now with you, particularly our associates and those that are expensive to us. We want that after we are lifeless and gone that they’d equally raise their souls to you. Train those that come after us to reward, love, and obey you. And if we wake within the morning, might we reward you once more with joyful lips, nonetheless providing ourselves to you as a extra acceptable sacrifice by Jesus in whose phrases we beg you to listen to us.
—John Wesley (1703–1791)

10. A Prayer for the Church

We ask that you just ship the Holy Spirit as a holy providing to the holy church. As we assemble, give to all of the saints the fullness of the Holy Spirit for the affirmation of true religion in order that we might reward and glorify you thru your Son, Jesus Christ, by whom glory and honor to the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit in your holy church are yours now and perpetually! Amen.
—Hippolytus of Rome (ca. 170–ca. 235)

This text is customized from Cloud of Witnesses: A Treasury of Prayers and Petitions by the Ages edited by Jonathan W. Arnold and Zachariah M. Carter.

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