Morning prayer · 6 April

Fill us today

A simple stone water jar filled right to the brim, overflowing gently onto the table in one continuous ribbon.

Lord, remember everyone who calls you Father. Look with a Father’s love on all your children. Meet the particular need of each one, and ease each one’s particular sorrow. Help us keep growing and keep working as Christians, and be made complete, until we grow up fully in Christ Jesus. Lord Jesus, you’re a great pillar, and all fullness lives in you. You began your work by filling the water jars to the brim. You filled Peter’s boat with fish until it started to sink. You filled the house where your people met with your Holy Spirit. You fill heaven, and you’ll fill all things. So fill us today with all the fullness of God, and make your people joyful and strong, full of grace and of heaven. Amen.

of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:19 (BSB)

Adapted from Charles Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Prayers (1905), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.