This week, until 27 December, you can purchase Prayers for All Seasons (book 1) from Kevin Mayhew Ltd at a 10 per cent discount, using the code ALLSEASONS10 when ordering the title from the company’s website. With the book normally retailing at £27.99, that’s a saving of £2.80. Just type the code into the relevant box at the online checkout between the dates given.
Here, meanwhile, is the second of the prayers I’ll be posting this week from the book, to run alongside this promotion.
ADVENT PETITION
Father God,
we praise you once more for this season of Advent,
for its mood of expectation,
its message of hope,
its call to prepare ourselves,
its spirit of confidence and trust.
God made flesh,
hear our prayer.
We praise you for the way you have spoken,
in the fulfilment of ancient prophecies,
in promises yet to be realised,
and in the living presence of Christ
made known through his Holy Spirit.
God made flesh,
hear our prayer.
Touch our lives again at this time,
as we remember the coming of Jesus,
as we anticipate his coming again,
and as we strive to serve him better here and now.
God made flesh,
hear our prayer.
Grant that through this season
we shall be renewed in hope and strengthened in faith,
trusting more completely in the future you hold.
May our confidence be deepened
in your eternal love and purpose,
despite all that seems to work against it.
And may we be ready to welcome Christ,
in the assurance that as he came so he shall come again.
God made flesh,
hear our prayer.
For we ask it in the name of Christ.
Amen.