Contemplative Prayer Stations

This contemplative prayer station uses a floor plan of a house (your heart) to visual walk people through specific prayer topics.
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Directions for Leadership: Set up in a secluded area with a few chairs and pillows around a floor plan taped of on the ground. Label the floor plan with the Labels provided below and place the directions around the room so people can walk in and pick them up.
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INSTRUCTIONS
On the floor is a “floor plan” of your heart. At this time mentally walk through the floor plan and prayerfully examine your heart and the “rooms” within.
Think about the ways you interact with God, or how you ignore God in each room. God asks us to love him with ALL of our heart. Stand in the room you are struggling with the most and invite God to enter there.
This week, every time you enter the room in your physical home that you struggle the most with in your heart, let it be a reminder of this conversation with God.

*Special Note: If you are letting God through the “front door” for the first time, we would ask that you find the station with the prayer ministers and share that with them so that they may support you.

The Bedroom
(Intimate Relationships)

Closet
(The Secrets Only God knows)

Family Room
(Children, Parents, Siblings etc.)

Office / Den
(Details such as Finances, School, Work, and Entertainment)

Kitchen/ Dining Room
(Attitudes and Serving Others)
Living Room
(Most Public Room – Is What You Show People You or a Facade)

Take Me

Welcome to this heart of mine
I’ve buried under prideful vines
Grown to hide the mess I’ve made
Inside of me

Come decorate, Lord
Open up the creaking door
And walk upon the dusty floor
Scrape away the guilty stains
Until no sin or shame remain

Spread Your love upon the walls
And occupy the empty halls
Until the man I am has faded
No more doors are barricaded

Come inside this heart of mine
It’s not my own
Make it home
Come and take this heart
and make it
All Your own
Welcome home

Take a seat, pull up a chair
Forgive me for the disrepair
And the souvenirs from floor to ceiling
Gathered on my search for meaning
Every closet’s filled with clutter
Messes yet to be discovered

I’m overwhelmed, I understand
I can’t make this place
all that You can
I took the space that You placed in me
Redecorated in shades of greed

And I made sure
every door stayed locked
Every window blocked,
and still You knocked

Take me, make me
All You want me to be
That’s all I’m asking, all I’m asking