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Short prayers for when you are asked to pray aloud.

A prayer for a Bible study

“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak … as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4. The picture: El Greco, Pentecost, about 1600, Museo del Prado.

Prayer 1 of 5About 30 seconds aloud

Lord, thank you for the passage we read and for each person who came tonight. Let what we learned stay with us past the door. Keep safe those who asked for prayer, and bring us back together next week. “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). Amen.

From Closing Prayers for a Church Meeting: Committees, Small Groups and the Grace

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El Greco, Pentecost, in a gilt frame on the wall: the apostles and Mary under the dove, a flame over each head
“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak … as the Spirit gave them utterance.”Acts 2:4 · El Greco, Pentecost, about 1600, Museo del Prado

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