Prayers for Meetings

School Board Meeting Prayer

Loving and Gracious God, you are indeed the giver of all good gifts and we thank you today for all your blessings, for the successful outcomes of our school events and for all our staff members, both the teaching and support members.

We ask that you bless them abundantly and we continue to seek your wisdom, guidance, courage and strength. Be with us in our deliberations and help us to be wise in the decisions we make for the good of all those who have placed their trust and confidence in our leadership.

Give us insight to lead with integrity that our decisions may reflect what is right and good. Keep us from short-sightedness and pettiness. Help us to make decisions that are for the good of all and guard us from blind self interest. Dear Lord, grant us the humility to always seek your will in all that we do and say.

All Glory be to you, loving God, now and always through Christ and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

Items of prayer
1. Thanks .. O give thanls to God, he is good ...
2. Gifts ... every good and perfect gift is from you
3. Wisdom, guidance ... by wisdom a house is built
4. Humility ... to seek God's will and to give you the glory
5. Power n Love n Self Control ... to serve
6. Protection Ps 121

Thank you Lord, you have prepared for us a banquet table of the words of truth and wisdom and understanding,  we pray Lord that you will also 

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
    and renew a right[b] spirit within me.
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to receive them with joy and delight. We pray your word and messages for us will not return to you empty but will accomplish that which it purposed and prosper in our lives, every part of it .. in speech, in conduct, in thought. Bind those 'little foxes' Lord, catch them for us Lord, like pride, fear, anxiety, so that they do not spoil our vineyards, spoil our session, our commitment, our plans - because our vineyards are in blossom.

Opening Prayer for Meeting

Lord, we are meeting today to conduct matters of business. Guide our hearts and our minds in the spirit of fairness, right thought and speech. Impart your supreme wisdom upon our activities so that our affairs may reach a successful conclusion. Thank you for being our source of guidance today. Amen!

Opening Prayer for Meeting

Heavenly Father, we come to you today asking for your guidance, wisdom, and support as we begin this meeting. Help us to engage in meaningful discussion; allow us to grow closer as a group and nurture the bonds of community. 

Fill us with your grace, Lord God, as we make decisions that might affect the students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends of Saint Louis University. And continue to remind us that all that we do here today, all that we accomplish, is for the pursuit of truth for the greater glory of You, and for the service of humanity. We ask these things in your name, Amen. 

Opening Prayer for Seminar

Let’s place ourselves in the presence of the Lord. (Pause for a few seconds)

Dear God, we offer everything to you during this seminar. May we ask for your blessing and divine providence that the activities set for this undertaking be successful and effective.

May we also retain the invaluable knowledge and learning experiences that we derive from this activity, for actual application when we leave this venue.

We pray that you bless all the committees in charge that they fulfill their tasks responsibly; that the objectives they have set may all be achieved.

Your generous blessing would mean the success of this seminar. We know that without it, we can do nothing.

May we be living witnesses of your genuine love, through the implementation of the knowledge acquired through this activity. Grant us your divine wisdom as we go about our daily task after this seminar.

This we ask in Jesus’ name, amen.

Opening Prayer 

Father, we give You thanks. We give You praise and glory. We give You honor. 
We also come humbly before You admitting our great need for You. Not simply 
a partial need, Lord, but a comprehensive, deep, constant, and daily need. Thank 
You that You give grace to the humble. And so we humble ourselves before You 
and ask that You would pour out Your grace in mighty measures today. 
Graciously speaking to us. Graciously touching our hearts. Graciously working 
in us to will and to do according to Your good pleasure. And graciously, 
transforming our lives to the image of Jesus Christ. By Your Holy Spirit, unfold 
Your Word and make it alive to us. And Lord, we confess that we can only live 
by every word that proceeds from Your mouth. So speak to us. We are ready to 
hear what you have to say. In Jesus’ name. Amen.