This document contains prayers for morning worship including: 1) A passage from Psalms and John introducing prayer. 2) The reading of Psalm 137. 3) A short reading from John about living water flowing from believers. 4) A thought on how the words of Jesus could bring hope to the anger in Psalm 137. 5) A closing prayer asking God to draw the worshipper to him in fullness of love.

1. August 27, 2014
Morning
Prayers

2. Introduction
Let the words of my mouth, and the
meditation of my heart, be always acceptable
in thy sight, O LORD, my strength and my
redeemer. (Ps. 19:14)
The hour comes, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit
and in truth: for the Father seeks such to
worship him. (John 4:23)
If you are praying with another person – read responsively
where appropriate.

3. The Psalm – Psalm 137
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
1
By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and there we wept
when we remembered Zion.
2
On the willows there
we hung up our harps.
3
For there our captors
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4
How could we sing the LORD’s song
in a foreign land?
5
If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand wither!
6
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy.
7
Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites
the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down!
Down to its foundations!”
8
O daughter Babylon, you devastator!
Happy shall they be who pay you back
what you have done to us!
9
Happy shall they be who take your little ones
and dash them against the rock!
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia

4. Short Reading and Meditation
On the last day of the festival,
the great day, while Jesus was
standing there, he cried out,
"Let anyone who is thirsty
come to me, 38and let the one
who believes in me drink. As
the scripture has said, 'Out of
the believer's heart shall flow
rivers of living water.'" 39Now
he said this about the Spirit,
which believers in him were to
receive; for as yet there was no
Spirit, because Jesus was not
yet glorified.
Thought for Today
Imagine what it would be like
if you were the author of
Psalm 137, but had these
words of Jesus in your heart
also…38 and let the one who
believes in me drink. As the
scripture has said, 'Out of the
believer's heart shall flow
rivers of living water.'“
Certainly the anger and the
fury would still be there, but
so also would be the hope.
John 7:37-39

5. Prayer
Pray Silently or Aloud for Others and Yourself
Lord, because you have made me, I owe you the whole of my
love; because you have redeemed me, I owe you the whole of
myself; because you have promised so much, I owe you my
whole being. Moreover, I owe you as much more love than
myself as you are greater than I, for whom you gave yourself
and to whom you promised yourself. I pray you, Lord, make
me taste by love what I taste by knowledge; let me know by
love what I know by understanding. I owe you more than my
whole self, but I have no more, and by myself I cannot render
the whole of it to you. Draw me to you, Lord, in the fullness of
your love. I am wholly yours by creation; make me all yours,
too, in love.
(Anselm 1033-1109)