Prayers of the Church - 6/26


Its my last week leading my church in prayer

We praise and worship you this morning, our Heavenly Father, for you alone are worthy of our praise. The wonders of creation, too numerous to name, were formed by your Word. You speak, and all the universe stands ready to obey your command. You sustain it in an intricate beauty and balance, as a reflection of your own perfection, order, steadfastness and beauty. We praise you this morning for your greatest work - that you took on flesh to suffer as an atonement for our sins. We praise you that you have chosen and called us, and quickened our hearts to be able to worship you today. We anxiously await the day when you will call us home to Heaven, that we might worship and enjoy you fully and forever.
Lord, in Your mercy, Hear our prayer.

We thank you for Reformation Lutheran Church, that you have given us this place to gather to worship you and to be reminded of the great work of salvation you have done in our lives. We thank you for the gift of fellowship and for all the saints that you gather here at our church. Help us to serve one another in Christian love, that we might always be ready to welcome new saints to this church and that we would glorify you in our unity here. We pray for our pastor, Russ, that you would continue to grow his faith and knowledge of you, and that you would use him to accurately and faithfully preach your Word to us.
Lord, in Your mercy, Hear our prayer.

We thank you that we are free to worship you, without any threat of persecution or consequence. We know that many of our brothers in Christ throughout the earth do not share such liberty. Help us to cherish our ability to worship you, and help us to use all of the gifts you have provided us to aid your Church throughout the earth. Comfort all of our brothers in Christ who suffer for the sake of your Gospel.
Lord, in Your mercy, Hear our prayer.

We pray for those who do not know you. We pray for the people who live in the community around this church. Help us to be a clear voice, proclaiming the truth of your Gospel. We ask that you would use the ministries of this church to lead those who do not yet know you to saving faith in your finished work on the Cross. We pray also for those in other countries far away from us. We pray that you would use our missionaries to reach them with the truth of your Gospel, and we pray that you would raise up missionaries from this congregation to carry your Great Commission to all the ends of the earth.
Lord, in Your mercy, Hear our prayer.

There are many things going on in our lives and the lives of our friends and families that we want to bring before you. Settle our hearts with the comforting knowledge of your Providence and help us to trust that you hear all of our prayers. We silently lift up our prayers now........

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.

Posted: Sun - June 26, 2005 at 08:00 AM | | | | | | |

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