Prayer

Within our parish there are different kinds of prayer meetings, places to pray and places to leave your prayer requests. 

On our YouTube channel : https://www.YouTube.com/c/ParishofRayleigh
Monday: Morning prayer led by various people
Friday: BCP Morning prayer (more traditional wording) led by Revd. Tracy Nutter
Subscribe to the YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTC7tLAnxLjrDSGNm8y4geA?sub_confirmation=1 
You can also get notifications on Facebook via our pages  https://www.facebook.com/HTRayleigh  and https://www.facebook.com/StMsRayleigh 

By telephone link: Dial: 0333 0110 945 and when prompted: enter Room number: 18613997# enter Guest PIN: 5126 #
or from a smart phone just click here:  

Wednesdays 9-9:30 for thanksgiving and requests

House of Prayer : Meets Wednesdays 11:15 in the Yew Tree Room Holy Trinity- this is prayer for our town and community

Prayer for Renewal
In 2023 we will be focusing on the theme of renewal, throughout our services. We would encourage you to come a little earlier each week to pray together for the service to come, the week ahead and for opportunities to engage with our community. We will meet in the Yew Tree Room at the Parish Centre 9:10am each Sunday. 

Special prayer meetings
Notice of these will be announced in both churches, written on the new sheet which can be sent to your email address,  and will be on this website. 

Prayer for our fellowship
Father God
We thank you for our churches, Holy Trinity and St Michael’s, here in the Parish of Rayleigh.
Guide us by your Holy Spirit in our worship and praise to you. Help us to follow your teachings through your word, and to grow together as your church family, in the knowledge of your love for us, and so love you more.
Help us to trust you, to follow Jesus and in prayerful response dedicate ourselves to live our lives to serve you.
May we be sensitive to the needs of others, and respond with loving care and support, reaching out to one another, our church family and our local community.
Let our churches be spaces of welcome to promote your peace and healing.
May Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, in our lives, and in our church.
In Jesus’ Name we pray
Amen

Prayer chain
Is a group of people willing to pray confidently. So if anyone would appreciate prayer about a situation or person, please contact Ian Gale via our Contact page.

Holy Trinity Church open Monday to Friday 10-12:30, Saturday 10-12noon
A quiet space. Those wishing to light a candle, place a prayer request in the box provided or use printed prayers on the cards may do so in the Alen chapel. Please take the prayer cards home with you. All prayer requests are collected frequently and prayed for.
There are people sitting in the church who would love to pray with you if you prefer. 

Prayer for our worries
Heavenly Father
Hold me close today. My fears are great and my worries many. You told us to put our burdens upon you and you would give us rest.
So I lift my fears and worries to you and place them at the foot of the cross where you died for me.
Take away the darkness I see and reveal your light. Shine brightly Jesus. Let me rest in you.
Amen

Awaken us, Lord.

Fill our dry bones with the breath of your Holy Spirit.

Heavenly Father, we have turned from you and gone our own way.  Please forgive us and help us to truly change.  Help us to understand that it is by grace that we have been saved, through faith in your dear son, Jesus Christ who, to cleanse us from our sins took our place, sacrificed himself, died  for us on the cross and now is risen.

Fill us with your Holy Spirit, that we may grow in trust and faith, and the knowledge of you and your great love for us; that in response with thanks and praise we may die to ourselves, so that it is not we who live, but you who live in us.  Let your kingdom come!  Amen

For our wedding
Heavenly Father
As we plan and arrange our wedding day at Holy Trinity Church, help us not to focus so much on the checklist of items to be done but on the reason for the day, our commitment to each other with you Lord being a part of our union together. Please bless us as we start this new chapter in our lives.
Amen

For our way ahead
Heavenly Father
Which way should we turn? What path should we take?
We give our future to you, for you know what is best. Help us to walk in it. Shut the doors firmly. Open wide the right road for us.
Thank you that you hear us when we cry to you. Help us to hear from you. Keep us close.
Amen

Thy Kingdom Come - Liturgy

Let it break out like blisters
on the skin of this city.
Let it cut to the heart
like cardiac surgery.
Let it create more column inches
than Idols and Big Brother.
Let it turn more heads in public
than Brooklyn Beckham's mother.

Let it blow in like a hurricane,
like a river, like a fire.
Let it spread like a virus,
like a rumour, like a war.
Like the raising of a curtain,
like the roll of a drum,
let it come to us:
let your kingdom come.

Let its landing be more welcomed
than the Dalai Lama's jet.
Let it touch more homes and households
than the rise of credit debt.
Let it be prized as a possession
like a ball signed by Babe Ruth.
Let it take more liberties with hate
than the tabloids take with truth.

Let it hit the road more readily
than Eddie Stobart's trucks.
Let it show up in more suburbs
than Blockbuster and Starbucks.
Let it overturn more social norms
than Marge and Homer's Bart.
Let it be driven to more victories
than Tiger Woods' golf cart.

Let it blow in like a hurricane,
like a river, like a fire.
Let it spread like a virus,
like a rumour, like a war.
Like the raising of a curtain,
like the roll of a drum,
let it come to us:
let your kingdom come.

Let it sing a softer love song
than Chris de Burgh's red lady.
Let it blast out through more ghettoes
than Eminem's Slim Shady.
Let it win more public plaudits
than the acting of Tom Cruise.
Let it hold out hope for longer
than Disney's theme-park queues.

Let it pack more power potential
than a phone box with Clark Kent in.
Let it set more captives free
than a breakout at San Quentin.
Let it flow into as many lives
as water fluoridation.
Let it soak the soil more deeply
than Chernobyl's radiation.

Let it blow in like a hurricane,
like a river, like a fire.
Let it spread like a virus,
like a rumour, like a war.
Like the raising of a curtain,
like the roll of a drum,
let it come to us:
let your kingdom come.