Opening Prayers by Title/Topic

Here’s a list of some of the opening prayers or prayers of invocation on this blog.  To see a list of opening prayers based on specific scripture texts, see these other Prayer Indexes.

Prayer Index: Old Testament
Prayer Index: New Testament


Opening Prayers

A Chorus of Praise
A Drop of Water
A Haven
A New Song
A Word of Peace: Mark 4:35-41
Abba, Father, Mother, Creator
Abundant Water
Advent 4 Invocation
Advent: Draw Close, Lord Jesus Christ 
Advent Gathering Prayer
Advent prayer of approach
Advent Prayer: Light of the World, Come
Advent Prayer: We Journey with You
Advent: We are an impatient people
All-knowing God, you know us better than we know ourselves
All Things New (New Year) 
A Prayer for Easter Sunday
Ascension Day prayer
Ascension Day Prayer
Ash Wednesday Opening
Ash Wednesday Opening Prayer
Ash Wednesday Prayer
Baptism of Jesus
Be Still
Blessed are You, Lord our God (Psalm 66)
Bless us, we pray
Bread of Heaven
Bread of Heaven
Breaking into the darkness (Epiphany) 
Bring life to dry bones (Ezekiel 37)
Call all the laborers (Matthew 20)
Called from busy-ness
Christmas Prayer: Joy to the World!
Come
Come, Holy Spirit (Lenten litany)
Come, Lord
Come now, Holy Spirit (Psalm 67)
Come to us now…faithful disciples
Convinced of many things, trusting few
Cornerstone (Ephesians 2) 
Centering Prayer: Be Silent, Be Still
Centering Prayer: Be Still
Centering Prayer: Help us to be still 
Centering Prayer: In the Stillness
Centering Prayer: Silence
Centering Prayer: Take from me....
Come Holy Spirit (New Year)
Come to us now
Creating God, we praise you
Drawing Closer
Easter: New Creation
Easter Opening Prayer
Easter Prayer: Witness
Easter 3: You show us your hands…open our eyes
Emmanuel
Emmaus Road Prayer
Enlighten our hearts
Epiphany Prayer: About the light 
Epiphany Prayer: The light which guides us
Eternal God, our Potter
Eternal God, Alpha and Omega (Revelation 21: 1-6)
Ever-calling God (Jeremiah 31)
Even here, the Spirit will pour forth
Faith, Hope and Love (I Corinthians 13:1-13)
Faithful God, you draw near to us
Father, Lord of heaven and earth
Feed Us Now
Fill Us
Freedom (National celebration)
From deep within
Gathering Prayer
Give Us Our Daily Bread 
Glad in the house of the Lord
God before time began
God, companion and guide
God, Father of the poor (Matthew 25)
God in our midst (Luke 4: 14-21)
God of all power
God of fire (Exodus 3)
God of healing and wholeness (Psalm 30)
God of heaven and earth
God of hope, we come to you (Isaiah 11)
God of majesty and might (Psalm 104)
God of our fathers and mothers (Genesis 28)
God of our hearts (Jeremiah 31)
God of power and might
God of small seeds and mighty plants (Mark 4)
God of storms and rainbows
God of surprising generosity (Advent)
God of the Past, Present and Future
God of the resurrection
God of the salt, God of the fire (Mark 9:49-50)
God of the still, small voice
God of unfailing love (Psalm 62)
God of wind and fire (Pentecost prayer)
God of wonder and glory
God, our guide and protector (Psalm 107)
God the creator, we come in awe of you
God, we praise you (Psalm 105) 
God, you are speaking to me!
God, you know our hearts (Lent)
God, you reign (Psalm 93)
God, Your majesty and glory surround us here (Psalm 146)
Good Friday Opening Prayer
Good Friday Prayer Litany 
Good Friday: Your Presence in the Darkness
God's Love (Psalm 36)
Grace to the Humble
Gracious and eternal God
Gracious God, hear our songs (Psalm 147)
Gracious Light-Bearer
Graduation: Opening Prayer
Graduation: Opening Prayer
Great is our Lord, the King! (Psalm 98)
Great Laughing God
Happy are we when we walk in Your ways
Happy are we who dwell in Your house (Psalm 84)
He comes now, as living Lord
Heal Us, O Lord
Healing God, when dismay is our daily companion
Hear us now, O God
Heavenly Father, we trust in you
Here and now
Holiness
Holy, creating, creative God
Holy God of Advent (Psalm 126)
Holy God of wind and fire (1 Kings 19)
Holy God, you call us out of our dark places (Psalm 130)
Holy Humour Sunday: Opening prayer
Holy Humour Sunday: Call to worship, opening prayer
Holy One, You have promised to be with us
Hospitable God, you invite us to a banquet 
Host and Shepherd (Psalm 23)
How lovely is Your dwelling place (Psalm 84)
Illumine our hearts (Ephesians 1: 15-23)
In humility and repentance (Luke 18)
In love,You open wide the doors
In the beauty of this moment
Into your presence we come
In the midst of the storm (1 Kings 19)
Invocation for Mother’s Day
Invocation for September 11
Invocation: Transfiguration
Invocation for Ash Wednesday
In times of transition
Jesus, come and save us
King of all the earth (Psalm 103)
King of all the earth, Creator of the Universe (Psalm 51)
King of all the earth (Psalm 113)
Laughter Sunday: Call to Worship, Opening Prayer
Lenten invocation
Let all the people praise our God (Psalm 22)
Let your kindly light shine (Epiphany)
Liberating God, we worship you (Exodus 14)
Life-giving God, we gather in your presence
Light of Christ, awaken us this hour
Lord God of heaven and earth…holy is your name
Lord, I praise you (Lamentations 3)
Lord Jesus, come soon
Lord of love and light (Advent invocation)
Lord of resurrection surprises
Lord of the church, you call a broken people
Lord our God, where is there another…
Loving God, whose touch can heal…
Loving, living God, be among us now
Make Your ways known to us (Psalm 25)
Maker of heaven and earth
May your light shine (Christmas Eve)
May your light shine on your people today
Memorial Day: Remembering
Missing the mark
Move us, joyful God (Advent)
No God Like You
No longer servants, but friends
November 11 Invocation
O God, we gather in Your presence (Psalm 81)
O God, we trust in you (Psalm 25)
O God, you are our God (Psalm 63)
O Holy God (Isaiah 6:1-8)
O Lord, be gracious to us (Psalm 85) 
O Lord, our God, we come to You (Psalm 130)
O Lord, You are the God of our salvation (Psalm 79)
O risen Christ, on the road to Emmaus
O Still Speaking God
O that you would tear open the heavens (Advent)
On the Lenten Journey
On this Easter morning
One in Christ (Ephesians 4:1-16)
Only with Your help
Opening prayer: Advent 1
Opening prayer: Christmas Eve
Opening prayer for Ascension
Opening Prayer for Easter
Opening Prayer for Palm Sunday
Opening prayer for Pentecost
Opening Prayer for Thanksgiving
Opening prayer for Thanksgiving Day
Opening prayer for Transfiguration Sunday
Opening Prayer for Trinity Sunday
Opening Prayer: Psalm Sunday
Opening prayer: Psalm 23
Opening prayer: Reformation Sunday 
Our eyes on the wrong things (Psalm 123)
Our hearts are blessed (Psalm 32)
Out of the darkness of grief and despair (Easter)
Palm Sunday Opening Prayer
Palm Sunday Opening Prayer
Palm Sunday Prayer
Pentecost Prayer: Come, Holy Spirit
Planted Vines
Plant us in the soil of your grace (John 15)
Pour Out Your Spirit
Pour Out Your Spirit Upon Us
Power in Weakness (1 Corinthians)
Praise and Adoration (1 Samuel 2 - Hannah's prayer)
Prayer for Christmas Eve
Prayer for the Night
Praise to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (Colossians 1)
Prayer of Adoration: You Are
Prayer of Adoration to the Triune God
Prayer of Approach: Almighty God
Prayer of Approach: Hebrews
Prayer of Approach: Simple Gifts
Prayer of Approach: We Welcome You
Prayer of Invocation: Psalm 8
Prayer of Approach: Psalm 113
Prayer of praise (Psalm 1)
Prayer of praise (Easter morning)
Prayer of praise and trust (Psalm 138)
Prayer of Thankfulness and Trust (Psalm 84)
Prayer of the Day: Reformation Sunday
Presence and Absence
Psalm 8 Invocation
Quench our thirst
Remembrance Day: Remembering
Reveal Yourself
Running the Race
Salt and Light
Seeing God’s face
Seeing God in creation
Seekers and Followers
Seeking God
Send Your Spirit
Shepherding God (Isaiah 40)
Show us Your dazzling glory (Transfiguration)
Showing Hospitality
Signs of the covenant (Lent)
Sing to God a new song (Psalm 96)
Slow us down, God
Source of Every Blessing
Speak to us all
Speak to us, Giver of Life (Revelation 21)
Surprise Us
Taking up our cross 
Teach us Your ways (Psalm 122, Isaiah 2:1-5)
Thanksgiving Litany of Praise (Psalm 97)
The eyes of all look to you in hope
The Face of Love
The King is Coming (Palm Sunday)
The Hands of the Potter
The One in whom we have placed our hope (Psalm 78)
The same, yesterday, today and forever
The sound of sheer silence (1 Kings 19)
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me (Isaiah 61)
The Wind of Your Spirit (Ezekiel 37)
There is a richness here
There is none like you, Lord (Psalm 96)
Three is the magic number
They risked it all: Mark 5:21-43
Thirsty Hearts
To the Wellspring
To You alone our praise we bring
To You, O Lord, we lift up our souls (Psalm 25)
True and living bread
Transfiguration: You are God's chosen Son
True bread from heaven (John 6)
Trusting what we cannot see
Two Masters
Under the shelter of your wings (Isaiah 40)
Unfailing love
Unity
Unveiled beauty (Philippians 2)
Wake us up (Advent)
Was it You?
We acknowledge you as creator and liberator (Exodus 20)
We bring our stories to this place
We come as we are
We come in response to your call
We come into your presence
We come into your presence with thanksgiving (Psalm 138)
We come to be your people, O God (All Saints)
We come today (Psalm 119)
We come to worship (Psalm 85)
We extol you, O God our King (Psalm 145)
We gather in your name to worship you
We gather with expectation
We gather today seeking fullness
We gather together in the beauty of the morning (Easter)
We give you thanks and praise
We have heard of your grace, Shaper of the stars (Epiphany)
We hunger for power, and you feed us…
We praise You, O God (Easter)
We praise you, O God, with words of thanksgiving
We stand in awe
We worship You…creator and Liberator (Exodus 20)
We worship You with joyful noise 
What eye has not seen... (1 Corinthians 2)
What mighty acts of praise belong to You, O God
What we need
Who is there like You, in heaven or earth (Psalm 145)
With and Through the Spirit
With open arms you welcome all
You are the first and the last (Isaiah 44)
You call us out of our dark places (John 11)
You call to us from the wild places (Isaiah 40)
You call us to hospitality
You continue your promise from generation to generation
You draw us near to your heart 
You have called us and made a place for us (Genesis 12)
You have done marvelous things (Psalm 98)
You know each of us by name 
You, O God, illumine our world
You, O Lord, are more wonderful…
You speak to us in parables
You welcome us
You welcome us as your children
Your Church Gathers
Your extravagant love has called us together
Your faithful love never ends (Psalm 89)
Your power fills the universe
Your Word is a lamp to our feet (Psalm 119)
Your Word, Jesus Christ (Matthew 23)