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For Guidance

O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices; that in your light we may see light, and in your straight path we may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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A Collect for Guidance

Thursday — Morning Prayer

Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Provenance

Attrib. c.440, att. Fox 1913

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A morning collect drawing on Paul's words to the Athenians in Acts 17, asking that the Spirit keep us aware of God's presence through the day's ordinary work. Its earliest prayer-book appearance is the Canadian Family Prayers, though a 1913 devotional anthology attributed it to "an ancient collect, A.D. 440" – a claim no surviving manuscript source confirms.