Prayers of the Church - 10/22


My prayers for the church

Father in Heaven, we thank you for the great mystery of our adoption as your sons and daughters in Christ. Thank you for your son, Jesus Christ, the firstborn of many, who has purchased and secured our adoption and inheritance with His holy and precious blood. We know and confess how sinful we have been, and so we praise you that we may bring our prayers before you this morning as your children, confident in Christ's work and your promise of redemption.

Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer

We praise you for the wonderful gift of fellowship. Thank you for bringing us together here as members of your body. We ask that you would use this church, that we would bear fruit and be used a your ambassadors to our community and our world. We pray for our Pastor Russ, and his family, that you would continue to strengthen his preaching, and strengthen our church through his preaching. We pray you would bind us together as a church body, that we might edify one another.

Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer

We praise you that we are able to gather freely and openly to worship you this morning. Thank you for the freedoms and blessings we enjoy here in America. We ask that you would make us good stewards of all that we have received and that we would not forget our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world who suffer under persecution. Grant that they would remain faithful in the face of oppression and boldly proclaim the truth of your Gospel. We pray for our national, state and local leaders, that you would preserve the freedoms we enjoy by granting them wisdom and protecting them from corruption.

Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer

We pray for our loved ones who are sick or in need of your care. We ask that you would heal and comfort them. Mold and shape all of us through any difficulties and inspire in us confidence in your promise that all things will work together for our good. We silently bring before you now all those in need......

Into Your hands, we commend all for whom we pray, trusting in Your mercy, through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who taught us to pray:

Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those we trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

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