Liturgical Evening Prayer - Day 2

Evening prayers (online only) will be at 20:45 (check for your local time):
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Welcome to evening prayers

God is Jehovah Nissi, ‘the Lord is my banner’. We approach God tonight remembering he is our banner, a symbol of victory. It is the Lord who wins our battles. He leads and protects; we know the victory is won.

Together we pray

Calm me, O Lord, as You stilled the storm.
Still me, O Lord, keep me from harm.
Let all the tumult within me cease.
Enfold me, Lord, in Your peace.

Pause

Look over the day, asking God to bring clarity and understanding. Review the day through the lens of gratitude. Think of every detail for which you can be thankful; for the things that bring you joy, thank him. For the things that bring sadness or have been challenging, thank him that you had that opportunity to trust him.

Pause to pray

Together we pray

God, we thank you that you have won the victory over sin and death. You are the one who helps us live victorious lives and you have led and protected us today.

Now we have the opportunity to become aware of how we are feeling. Try to name that emotion and give it to the LORD.

Pause to pray

Together we pray

God thank you that you made us with the ability to feel a complex range of emotions. We praise you that we can feel many emotions but that they do not rule us and with your help, we can have godly responses regardless of how we feel.

Now choose a feature of today, maybe it’s a joy or it could be a burden or something that he has provoked in you due to the things we have been discussing today. Talk to the Lord about it.

Pause to pray

Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 (NIV)

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
     will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
     my God, in whom I trust.”

9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
     and you make the Most High your dwelling,

10 no harm will overtake you,
     no disaster will come near your tent.

11 For he will command his angels concerning you
     to guard you in all your ways;

12 they will lift you up in their hands,
     so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
     you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
     I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
     I will be with him in trouble,
     I will deliver him and honour him.

16 With long life I will satisfy him
     and show him my salvation.”

Finally, as we look towards tomorrow, consider what is coming up. Through the lens of hope, trust and expectation, offer up all you will do, trusting him to be involved and for his will to be done.

Pause to pray

Together we pray

May God shield me;
may God fill me;
may God keep me;
may God watch me;
may God bring me this night
to the nearness of His love.

The peace of the Father of joy,
the peace of the Christ of hope,
the peace of the Spirit of grace,
the peace of all peace
be mine this night.

Amen.

Acknowledgements: 

The opening prayer is taken from the Northumbria Community Wednesday Compline: https://www.northumbriacommunity.org/offices/wednesday-the-felgild-compline/

The final prayer is taken from the Northumbria Community Saturday Compline: https://www.northumbriacommunity.org/offices/saturday-the-patrick-compline/