Holy Spirit, breath of God, Pentecost fire …
We give thanks for this day of Pentecost reminder …
When you paid your people an extraordinary visit …
And created the church of Jesus Christ …
We pray now, O Holy Spirit, for the church of Jesus Christ, the church you created on Pentecost Day, a church scattered far and wide across the earth, in teeming cities and tiny towns … a church of soaring steeples and thatched roofs … churches, large and churches small; churches old and churches new … your people, O Holy Spirit – to lift up the name of Jesus and hold high the cross on which He died for the sins of the world.
Help your church, O Holy Spirit, to be faithful to Christ all the more.
Fill us anew, we pray, with your breath and anoint us with Pentecost fire.
Help your church, O Holy Spirit,
To boldly go where no one has gone before …
To be venturesome and brave …
Experimental and exciting …
With Christ leading the way.
O Holy Spirit, we are laying the foundation and beginning the work of calling a pastor …
Prepare us, we pray, for a new day:
Fill us with the fragrance and favor of Jesus Christ.
Give us, we pray, a good voice …
A Pentecost voice …
Vibrant with the sounds of love …
A joyful noise to attract a curious world …
O Holy Spirit, work some miracle in our hearts today … some thought, some idea, that can spell the difference between the hour we got here and when we leave for home and work…
Especially, we pray for those harassed by difficulty … souls burdened by distress and sorrow … afflicted with life’s pains and bewilderments …
Give to them, we pray, O Holy Spirit, a vision of blue sky and bright sun, though the clouds be dark and heavy … and take us all gently by the hand; lead us through our dark valleys and bring us to the better day.
Let us leave here, O Spirit of the Living God, with a greater measure of faith, hope and love … a clearer sense of Christ and his purpose, and through him, our purpose, too, and a deeper commitment to honoring your work in our midst!
O Spirit of God, confirm our faith and strengthen our resolve to serve Jesus Christ.
In whose name we pray, saying together, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven …
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