Weekly Breath Prayers: October 2026

Every Sunday, we begin our worship services with a simple breath prayer from Milford First's lay leader to guide us through the week. Below are this month’s breath prayers along with weekly reflections from Deb Johnson. We hope these prayers are meaningful tools for your spiritual life and journey!

Sunday, October 4, 2026

"Holy Spirit, join me in this pause."

What busy lives we lead! Phone calls, emails, texts, appointments and schedules

push us into a flurry of daily activity. Often, we allow that outside noise to catch

us up in a swirl of busyness that causes us to lose sight of who we are and what

is important to our inner selves. Sometimes it is simply exhausting! But the

amazing news is there is a quick and easy solution...PAUSE! Just pause!

Do you imagine our Father gets exhausted hearing us come to Him in prayer like

we do our daily lives? Do we jump right in rattling off our concerns and

supplications without properly pausing? How much more powerful might our

prayers be if we paused first? Perhaps the outcome might be far better for our

inner selves

This week, before you utter one request...one prayer...one "Dear God"...lift up

this breath prayer...and then truly pause...allow Spirit to enter your heart, clear

your head from the noise, ease your soul of the burdens you bear...before you

even utter anther word.

Sunday, October 11, 2026

"In You, I am known. Among your people, I belong."

This week's breath prayer is a prayer to move closer to our real selves, the inner

self that God made purposely and uniquely beautiful. We live in a world where

perception is everything...we are told how to dress, wear our hair, live our lives

...to fit in with the general population. We walk into rooms and often pretend to

be someone we think others expect us to be. While that may work in the

moment, it often leaves us feeling empty on the inside. But...

This week we hope to return to the beautiful soul God intended us to

be...unapologetically authentic. That is going to take serious prayer for the

courage to step out as our real selves. Being authentic means being

vulnerable enough to expose who we are and trusting we will be accepted as we

are. With the Lord walking beside us, we can do just that.

Not only do we have the Holy Three encouraging us on, we have the beauty of

this community here to support our efforts. When we love and accept each other

as we are within these walls, we will gain the strength to do the same outside of

these walls. May we carry that light out into the world!