Category: Daily Prayer

  On this first Friday morning of the new month, let us raise our eyes and drink deeply of God’s new day. O Lord your glory is revealed in the morning. From the first glint of light on the pink-tinged hydrangea to the gentle whisper of the rising breeze as it stirs the stately bamboo. The...

A reading from the Prophet Isaiah 25 ‘To whom will you compare me?   Or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:   who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one   and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great...

How to Have a Good Day Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears...

Good morning, good Cornerstone friends. Are you sparkling, even if it is dull weather and rain today? Welcome to a new month. I hope you are not too jaded to join us in our prayers this morning. The Lord, the mighty God has spoken and called the world from the rising of the sun to its...

Our Gospel reading this morning reminded us of the importance of hospitality, of welcoming strangers. Jesus says that in so doing, we welcome God. At present, we are not able to welcome strangers to our church in the way we have been used to. So it is left to us as individuals to consider how best...

Welcome to our prayer time this evening. We begin our time together with a hymn from the Taizé Community, ‘Bless the Lord, my soul.’ Click the link below / in the written version of the prayers; you should be able to skip the adverts, and press ‘esc’ at the end to return to the rest of...

Good morning, Cornerstone Christians! Let us greet the day in prayer. Thank you, Lord, for protection through the night and the splendid morning light. The beauty all around I see, crafted from glory as if just for me. Here’s a poem to celebrate the day: Have you caught the sunrise in CMK? Have you splashed in...

A reading from Psalm 133 1 How good and pleasant it is   when God’s people live together in unity! … 3 It is as if the dew of Hermon   were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing,   even life for evermore. Psalm 133: 1 & 3 NIV® We pray for unity in your Church...

Smashed Rainbows The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34: 17–18 NIV® The Psalms have been valued throughout the history of the Church. Martin Luther said, ‘in the Psalms we look...

Good morning, Cornerstone friends. I hope you are all ready for a hot summer day after our time of reflection. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel who has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty Saviour born of the house of his servant David. Through...

A reading from the First Epistle of John 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And...

A reading from the Book of Revelation A new heaven and a new earth 1 Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from...

Refugee Week This is Refugee Week. If you visit the website (https://refugeeweek.org.uk/) you will find a number of ideas for positive action. One is to imagine how the world would be if displaced people were truly welcome and their gifts and talents celebrated. At the close of the day let us imagine what our Church, our...

Good morning, friends. God is good? All the time. Let us pause to acknowledge God`s watchful, care and mercy as we slept… Prayer God of all, we come to you just as we are – happy, sad, busy, bored, lonely, or fed up with people. We thank you that you welcome us just as we are...

An Attitude of Adjustment He changes times and seasons; … He gives wisdom…. Daniel 2: 21 NIV® Realise that tough times won’t last for ever. As surely as God created Spring to follow Winter. He changes times and seasons. He gives wisdom. The season of adversity you’re in will end, and when it does, you’ll glean...