Jesus prayer on prayer beads

Here is another version of the Jesus prayer that you can pray on the Anglican prayer beads. It includes the Apostle’s Creed, the Lord’s prayer, the Trisagion, the Jesus prayer, the Fatima prayer, and finishes with the Glory Be.

On the Cross

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
Amen.

The Invitatory

Matthew 6:9-13 KJV

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom,
the power and the glory are yours
now and for ever. Amen.

The Cruciforms

Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

The Weeks

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. Have mercy on us, sinners.

End cruciform

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins,
Save us from the fires of hell.
Lead all souls to heaven,
Especially those in most need of Your mercy.

End Invitatory

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
a world without end. Amen.

The Cross

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Amen

Learn the Lord’s Prayer

One prayer I think is important to learn is the Lord’s Prayer. This is the prayer Jesus taught His disciples after they asked Him how they should pray.

This prayer covers all our basic needs in life. It starts by honouring God, then asks for His will, provision, forgiveness and protection. It finishes with declaring that all power belongs to Him always.

The first one is a more modern version. The second is an older version that many people know. It is the one I learned as a child.

Modern version

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever.
Amen.

Traditional version

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

I actually typed the prayer out and laminated it. I put it in my Bible as a bookmark and prayed it several times a day to learn it. Now I start every day with it.

Prayer for your evangelism efforts

I have learned over the years that prayer always precedes evangelism. Prayer helps us to be prepared and in a right place with God. It also lets us to know who we should share our faith with and when is the right time.

At times I have tried to boldly share my faith with someone at the wrong time and they were just not open to listening. Where at other times when I am more in tune with the Holy Spirit after praying, it just flows and the person has been open.

Below is a prayer I pray regularly. It helps me to be in a right place with God and more open to the Holy Spirits promptings.

Prayer

Dear God,
I pray that You will use me to reach others for Christ. Please help me to be effective in sharing my faith. Please help me to know whom to talk to and I pray that You will give me the right words to say when the time comes. I pray for all my family, friends and neighbours. I pray that the Holy Spirit will draw them to Jesus and make them aware of their need for salvation. Please use me to lead them to Christ. I also pray Lord that when people come to You that You will help me to teach them about You and how to follow You each day. I pray that I will help make disciples.
I ask this in Jesus’, Amen.

Comforted to comfort others

“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.” ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭1:3-4‬ ‭NLT‬‬

God comforts us in our times of suffering and distress. The Bible tells us over and over again that He is the source of all comfort. We see that God comforts us to restore us, but He also comforts us so we can comfort others too. I have found that when we are healed of some pain or trauma, in time we can help others going through the same thing. We pass on the help God has given us. We allow God to recycle our pain for the good of others.

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for all of Your help and comfort over the years. I pray that I can comfort others too. Use me to bring Your peace and comfort to others when they are in need. Amen.

Making prayer beads

What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

In the last year or so I have started making prayer beads. In the examples above I have learned to make three types.

  1. The Anglican or Christian Rosary has 33 beads. One this you can prayer the Jesus prayer or the Come Lord Jesus prayer. It has an Invitatory bead, four Cruciform beads and 28 smaller weeks beads.
  2. The one decade rosary has 11 beads – an Our Father bead and 10 Hail Mary’s. This is small enough to be easily carried in your pocket.
  3. The traditional Rosary is the longer one that is used by Catholics to pray the Marian Rosary or the Divine Mercy.

I have mainly making them for my own enjoyment and to learn a new skill. I have given away quite a few of them as gifts to be a blessing.

I have really enjoyed this new skill.