Prayer and Meditation on John 1:1-5

Prayer for the Christmas Season:  John 1:1-18

As we come to You at the beginning of this Advent

Season, O Lord God, we acknowledge that we do 

believe that Jesus of Nazareth is Your Only Begotten 

Son and is truly Lord and God of all Creation and 

One with You, the Father, and The Holy Spirit as 

One God and One Lord.

We believe that the Lord Jesus is the eternal Word and Wisdom of God and was with 

God and was God. You have never been without Your Only Begotten Son, O most 

High God, for You cannot be without Your Word and Your Wisdom.

We further confess and believe that all things in heaven and earth that are and were 

created are the works of Your eternal Word and Wisdom by the Holy Ghost and in 

Your Word and Wisdom all things consist and remain. There is nothing created that 

is not the work of Your hands, O Lord God, in wisdom and power.

O Lord God, all life comes from You in Your Word and Wisdom. This vast earth 

with its continents and seas are the works of Your hands and the life that we see all 

around us is sustained and beloved of You. You are also the life of the beings that 

we do not see that inhabit the heavens and the earth, the angels, the principalities 

and powers, for good and evil, are created by You and have their life from You.

All living things in heaven and in earth You have made in wisdom and power for 

the good and holy pleasure of Your will, which cannot change. You have made our 

Lord Jesus, Your eternal wisdom, to be unto us wisdom and righteousness and 

sanctification and redemption. We rejoice in You, O God, and believe in Jesus 

Christ Your Only Begotten Son and our Redeemer.

This light that shines in all that You have made--this light of Your Word and 

Wisdom--appears to all men. Our very life is the light that would show us the way 

if we were not blind and deaf to You and Your Wisdom. 

This light shines in the darkness of our minds and souls but we cannot see it for 

we are bound in sin and iniquity until You set us free by the mighty power of the 

Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord and by the power of the Holy Spirit calling us 

out of darkness into the light of Your grace and mercy.

We believe that Your Only Begotten Son, Jesus of Nazareth, was born of the 

Virgin Mary precisely because You prepared Him a body in which He could 

offer up Himself to You as a sacrifice for our sins.  His blood turns away Your
wrath from Your people so that You could show to us the abundance of Your
mercy and grace in putting away our sins, reconciling truth and grace, that You
might be just and the justifier of all who believe the Gospel. 

This is our only hope and trust, but it is a solid one, because You have promised 

and sworn that all those who believe the Gospel will be saved. We praise and 

love Your Holy Name, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Name in which we were 

baptized. In the Name of our Mediator and God, the Lord Jesus, Amen.