THIS HOLY GROUND PRAYER WALL
A Sanctuary of Prayer
"Prayers are tools, but with this clarification:
prayers are not tools for doing or getting, but for being and becoming."
—Eugene Peterson
"
So we are drawn into prayer
not by obligation
or by need or by desire,
but by divine Love.
God seeking. God waiting.
God wooing.
God pursuing.
This emphasis upon the loving heart of God
seeking us out is, of course, drawing from
a long and deep biblical tradition about prayer."
- Richard Foster
Here on THIS HOLY GROUNDʻs Prayer Wall
you will find a safe place to pray
and have prayed prayers of
---Petition
---Intercession
---Praise
---Thanksgiving
---Lament
---Blessing
---Encouragement
Welcome to a community of prayer where
your relationship with God is nurtured in Grace
you can voice what matters to you, because it matters to God
you are not alone: here others are willing to listen, to pray, to "stand in the gap" with you and for you
Welcome, in the peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We hope that you will share your prayers
and pray with our family of God!
Here on THIS HOLY GROUNDʻs Prayer Wall
all are welcome to:
Offer your prayer within the format provided (phone is not required)
Have your prayer posted with your name, anonymously, or not at all
Choose to be notified when someone has prayed your prayer.
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Remove your prayer at any time following the link in the email
Share that your request has been answered
Let others know you are praying and click “I prayed for this”
Lord, hear our prayers!
“You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m
challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your
God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that."
- JESUS (Matthew 5:43-47 MSG)
You may add your prayer request to our prayer wall using the form below. Once your prayer request is received, we will share it according to your instructions. Feel free to submit as many prayer requests as you like!
Laura
Please, let us pray this prayer of Augustine:
Late have I loved You, O beauty so ancient and so new.
Late have I loved You! You were within me while I have gone outside to see You. Unlovely myself, I rushed towards all those lovely things You had made. And Always You were with me, and I was not with You.
All these beauties kept me far from You – although they would not have existed at all unless they had their being in You.
You called,
You cried,
You shattered my deafness.
You sparkled,
You blazed,
You drove away my blindness.
You shed your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.
I tasted and now I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and now I burn with longing for Your peace.
Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions
Received: September 20, 2021
This Holy Ground
O God who loves us Home, in every moment, every day, making every breath eternal –
“I pause now to become more aware of Your presence in the stillness of this moment. Grant me epiphanies of the ordinary today – glimpses of Your presence in the places I go, the people I meet, the routine things I do. Teach me to perceive and receive Your presence in all things.”
– Pete Greig, Dirty Glory
- Breathe in us a fragrance, a taste, a sense, an undeniable knowing, of the New Thing You are doing all around us in every moment in unexpected ways, and people, and places. Give us eyes to see. Give us ears to hear. Let Your Kingdom come.
Received: September 19, 2021
Laura
Lord, we know the importance of doing for others.
Teach us the importance of being for others
that we might take time to fast and pray and dwell with You
in order to see more clearly how Your light illuminates
the faces we struggle alongside for justice
A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
Received: September 18, 2021
This Holy Ground
Bless What Eludes my Grasp
Lord, so many things skitter through my mind,
and I give chase to gather them
and hold them up in a bunch to You,
but they go this way and that
while I go that way and this…
So gather me up instead
and bless what eludes my grasp but not Yours:
trees and bees, fireflies and butterflies,
roses and barbeques, and people…
Lord, the people . . . bless the people:
birthday people,
giving birth people,
being born people;
conformed people,
dying people;
hostaged people,
banged up people,
held down people;
leader people,
lonely people,
limping people;
hungry people,
surfeited people,
indifferent people;
first world people,
second world people,
third world people;
one world people,
Your people,
all people.
Bless them Lord.
Bless what eludes my grasp, but not Yours.
Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace
Received: September 15, 2021
Laura
Please pray with me a bit from Psalm 71
Since my youth, God, you have taught me,
and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.
Even when I am old and gray,
do not forsake me, my God,
till I declare your power to the next generation,
your mighty acts to all who are to come.
Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens,
you who have done great things.
Who is like you, God?
Though you have made me see troubles,
many and bitter,
you will restore my life again;
from the depths of the earth
you will again bring me up.
You will increase my honor
and comfort me once more.
Psalm 71: 17-21
Received: September 15, 2021
This Holy Ground
O God our protector;
by whose mercy the world turns safely into darkness
and returns again to light:
we give into Your hands our unfinished tasks,
our unsolved problems,
and our unfulfilled hopes;
for You alone are our sure defense.
Prayer at end of day, Celtic Daily Prayer Book Two
Received: September 13, 2021
Laura
Lord, High and Holy, Meek and Lowly,
Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision,
where I live in the depths but see Thee in the heights;
hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Thy glory.
Let me learn by paradox
that the way down is the way up,
that to be low is to be high,
that the broken heart is the healed heart,
that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit,
that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,
that to have nothing is to possess all,
that to bear the cross is the wear the crown,
that to give is to receive,
that the valley is the place of vision.
Lord, in the daytime stars
can be seen from the deepest wells,
and the deeper wells
the brighter Thy stars shine;
Let me find Thy light in my darkness,
Thy life in my death,
Thy joy in my sorrow,
Thy grace in my sin,
Thy riches in my poverty,
Thy glory in my valley.
The Valley of Vision, prayers from the Puritan Movement
Received: September 11, 2021
This Holy Ground
Almighty God, thank You for the cloud of witnesses who have gone before us. Surround us with living saints who
remind us of the sort of people we are trying to become. Give us eyes to see You alive in each other; give us ears to hear Your hope proclaimed in the lives of Your saints among us.
Oh Father, help us behold and fix our gaze upon Jesus, as You transform us in His likeness. When we fall short of who we want to be, catch us in the arms of Your grace. In Your mercy, let us feel the warmth of Your love as we soak in the Light of Your delight as You renew us on the Way.
We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen.
Inspired by Common Prayer, A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, p. 371
Received: September 11, 2021
Laura
Late have I loved You, O beauty so ancient and so new.
Late Have I loved You! You were within me while I have gone outside to see You. Unlovely myself, I rushed towards all those lovely things You had made. And Always You were with me, and I was not with You.
All these beauties kept me far from You – although they would not have existed at all unless they had their being in You.
You called,
You cried,
You shattered my deafness.
You sparkled,
You blazed,
You drove away my blindness.
You shed your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.
I tasted and now I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and now I burn with longing for Your peace.
Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions
Received: September 10, 2021
This Holy Ground
My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though
I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
“The Merton Prayer” from Thoughts in Solitude
Received: September 9, 2021
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You may add your prayer request to our prayer wall using the form below. Once your prayer request is received, we will share it according to your instructions. Feel free to submit as many prayer requests as you like!
Laura
Please, let us pray this prayer of Augustine:
Late have I loved You, O beauty so ancient and so new.
Late have I loved You! You were within me while I have gone outside to see You. Unlovely myself, I rushed towards all those lovely things You had made. And Always You were with me, and I was not with You.
All these beauties kept me far from You – although they would not have existed at all unless they had their being in You.
You called,
You cried,
You shattered my deafness.
You sparkled,
You blazed,
You drove away my blindness.
You shed your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.
I tasted and now I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and now I burn with longing for Your peace.
Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions
Received: September 20, 2021
This Holy Ground
O God who loves us Home, in every moment, every day, making every breath eternal –
“I pause now to become more aware of Your presence in the stillness of this moment. Grant me epiphanies of the ordinary today – glimpses of Your presence in the places I go, the people I meet, the routine things I do. Teach me to perceive and receive Your presence in all things.”
– Pete Greig, Dirty Glory
- Breathe in us a fragrance, a taste, a sense, an undeniable knowing, of the New Thing You are doing all around us in every moment in unexpected ways, and people, and places. Give us eyes to see. Give us ears to hear. Let Your Kingdom come.
Received: September 19, 2021
Laura
Lord, we know the importance of doing for others.
Teach us the importance of being for others
that we might take time to fast and pray and dwell with You
in order to see more clearly how Your light illuminates
the faces we struggle alongside for justice
A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
Received: September 18, 2021
This Holy Ground
Bless What Eludes my Grasp
Lord, so many things skitter through my mind,
and I give chase to gather them
and hold them up in a bunch to You,
but they go this way and that
while I go that way and this…
So gather me up instead
and bless what eludes my grasp but not Yours:
trees and bees, fireflies and butterflies,
roses and barbeques, and people…
Lord, the people . . . bless the people:
birthday people,
giving birth people,
being born people;
conformed people,
dying people;
hostaged people,
banged up people,
held down people;
leader people,
lonely people,
limping people;
hungry people,
surfeited people,
indifferent people;
first world people,
second world people,
third world people;
one world people,
Your people,
all people.
Bless them Lord.
Bless what eludes my grasp, but not Yours.
Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace
Received: September 15, 2021
Laura
Please pray with me a bit from Psalm 71
Since my youth, God, you have taught me,
and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.
Even when I am old and gray,
do not forsake me, my God,
till I declare your power to the next generation,
your mighty acts to all who are to come.
Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens,
you who have done great things.
Who is like you, God?
Though you have made me see troubles,
many and bitter,
you will restore my life again;
from the depths of the earth
you will again bring me up.
You will increase my honor
and comfort me once more.
Psalm 71: 17-21
Received: September 15, 2021
This Holy Ground
O God our protector;
by whose mercy the world turns safely into darkness
and returns again to light:
we give into Your hands our unfinished tasks,
our unsolved problems,
and our unfulfilled hopes;
for You alone are our sure defense.
Prayer at end of day, Celtic Daily Prayer Book Two
Received: September 13, 2021
Laura
Lord, High and Holy, Meek and Lowly,
Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision,
where I live in the depths but see Thee in the heights;
hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Thy glory.
Let me learn by paradox
that the way down is the way up,
that to be low is to be high,
that the broken heart is the healed heart,
that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit,
that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,
that to have nothing is to possess all,
that to bear the cross is the wear the crown,
that to give is to receive,
that the valley is the place of vision.
Lord, in the daytime stars
can be seen from the deepest wells,
and the deeper wells
the brighter Thy stars shine;
Let me find Thy light in my darkness,
Thy life in my death,
Thy joy in my sorrow,
Thy grace in my sin,
Thy riches in my poverty,
Thy glory in my valley.
The Valley of Vision, prayers from the Puritan Movement
Received: September 11, 2021
This Holy Ground
Almighty God, thank You for the cloud of witnesses who have gone before us. Surround us with living saints who
remind us of the sort of people we are trying to become. Give us eyes to see You alive in each other; give us ears to hear Your hope proclaimed in the lives of Your saints among us.
Oh Father, help us behold and fix our gaze upon Jesus, as You transform us in His likeness. When we fall short of who we want to be, catch us in the arms of Your grace. In Your mercy, let us feel the warmth of Your love as we soak in the Light of Your delight as You renew us on the Way.
We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen.
Inspired by Common Prayer, A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, p. 371
Received: September 11, 2021
Laura
Late have I loved You, O beauty so ancient and so new.
Late Have I loved You! You were within me while I have gone outside to see You. Unlovely myself, I rushed towards all those lovely things You had made. And Always You were with me, and I was not with You.
All these beauties kept me far from You – although they would not have existed at all unless they had their being in You.
You called,
You cried,
You shattered my deafness.
You sparkled,
You blazed,
You drove away my blindness.
You shed your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.
I tasted and now I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and now I burn with longing for Your peace.
Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions
Received: September 10, 2021
This Holy Ground
My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though
I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
“The Merton Prayer” from Thoughts in Solitude
Received: September 9, 2021
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Here, on THIS HOLY GROUND, our prayer wall is...
- a sacred space where all are welcome to share their prayer requests
- a holy (distinct/set apart) place to pray with and for others
- a wilderness place of waiting, seeking, listening, and worshipping the Lord
- a safe refuge for restoration in Christ for the flourishing of souls
Here in this place God meets with us and kindles the consuming fire of eternal friendship.