Good Friday Prayer – Thank You, Jesus Christ!
Giving Thanks On Good Friday
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Greetings on this Good Friday morning. As we celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, let us give thanks for the grace that has been bestowed upon us.
Even as we were sinners, His love was shown to us and the ultimate sacrifice made. So as you mourn the death of Christ on the cross, I leave you with the following prayers to bless your day.
Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Matthew 27:46 – And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
A Good Friday Prayer
Heavenly Father, on this Good Friday, we come before you with grateful hearts, remembering the ultimate sacrifice that your son Jesus Christ made for us on the cross. We are humbled by the depth of his love and the extent to which he was willing to suffer on our behalf.
We thank You, gracious God, for Your great redemption plan, through which we are called Your offspring and by which we understand there’s a forgiveness incomprehensible, a love inexhaustible and a life unimaginable, in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lord Jesus, how can we thank You for the great love You have for us. How can we ever repay You for the price You paid on the cross.
How can we, Lord, ever forget the great sacrifice of You, laying down Your life that we may live and have life to the fullest. And how great is Your saving Grace that made us one with the Father, in reconciliation and in life eternal.
Carrying Our Sins
Through the crowns of thorns and scourging, and through the cross, You carried our sins. We pray to remember to carry our cross and heed Your call to follow You. And, through sorrow, pain and torment of the world, only remember Your journey of laying down Your life for us.
May we rejoice to know that through our suffering, we have Your compassion and love. And, in Your perfect timing, You will set us free from all danger, evil and illness. We pray and meditate on the seven last words of Yours before You gave Your life for the world.
Isaiah 53:5 – But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds, we are healed.
Luke 23:26 – And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
Coming To Jesus In Repentance
Lord Jesus, on this Good Friday, we come to You in repentance and reconciliation and forgiveness. Through the power of the cross You have redeemed us. So, we seek Your pardon for the times we have failed You in sin, living a life of self contentment and very much of the world.
Help us, in our journey of faith, to follow Your simple, humble, loving and caring way of life and receive Your grace in this world and in the world to come.
Luke 23:43 “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Lord, we pray that by our faith and by our ways, and in our great love for You, that we may find favor and forever in You abide.
Through Your Holy Spirit, lead us we ask, that we may do all things pleasing in Your sight. Help us Lord, to always stay in Your presence and light.
Lord, we see Your great care, love and compassion revealed in Your words to Your mother at the cross. May we, in our lives, be filled in this same care, compassion and love, as we are called to love and serve our fellow people.
Help us to not see separation. Help us Lord to not define others by color and status. Instead may we love all, in selflessness and goodness and avoid all evil.
John 19:26-27 He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!”
Why Have You Forsaken Me?
O gracious Lord and Savior, at times we cry out for help and at times we feel forsaken. Help us to remember the way You were forsaken by mankind.
May we not dwell on our sufferings but leave them at Your feet, trusting that You know what’s best for us. May daily fervent prayer be our armor in conquering our times of fear and trouble.
Matthew 27:46 Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
We pray, Lord, to thirst for goodness and righteousness, and we thirst for Your living waters that may never run dry in us. May we thirst to be filled, through Your Holy Spirit, with wisdom, discernment and prudence, in a world of folly. We pray that we always quench our thirst in Your blessed name and Your great love.
John 19:28 “I thirst.”
Good Friday: It is Finished
O Lord, Jesus Christ, who finished the work that you were sent to do, enable us, through your Holy Spirit, to be faithful to our call.
Grant us strength to bear our crosses and endure our sufferings, even unto death. Enable us to live and love so faithfully that we also become good news to the world, as Your witnesses.
1 Peter 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds, you have been healed.
John 19:30 – When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Father, into whose hands your beloved Son Jesus Christ commended His spirit. Grant that we, too, may follow His example in all of our lives.
And, at the moment of our death, entrust our lives into Your faithful hands of love, that we may be brought in Grace into eternal life.
We thank You for this great mystery of the cross. We pray, in the blessed name of Jesus, who gave His life and love. Amen!
Luke 23:46 “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”
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