Eternal God, we lift our thoughts toward you, so that we might turn our attention to our world … to see the world as you do … with compassion and mercy … hope and love … and holy sadness.
Sadness for the sin of the world …
Our ceaseless greed and our endless wars …
Religious pride and spiritual pomp …
So many misplaced priorities and skewed values …
We flinch, O LORD, at such things …
We’d like to believe that it’s the other person who sins,
But it’s us, too, O LORD.
We are sinners as well.
We need your Word, though it sometimes hurts.
We will listen to you Word, as it calls us,
Convict us, we pray, to seek the truth, to seek Christ, to seek justice and peace.
Challenge us, and
Encourage us to live out of the love of Christ, to live for the love of Christ, and to share the love of Christ … that his glory might be our glory, his truth our truth, and his ways, our ways.
We pray for the Holy Spirit.
Your indwelling mercy …
To transform us according to your Word … that more of Christ might live within us, through us, and to the world …
Help us connect what we do here, LORD.
With Monday and Tuesday.
Help us link our faith to our work, and our work to your faith.
Help us, we pray, to love our faith,
To live our faith,
And to share our faith.
Help us, we pray, to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world …
To make a difference in the ways of the world …
That folks could look at us and see an alternative.
Something better and brighter …
That the world could see in us the very light of Christ!
Bless the ministries of Covenant, O God …
May we be an instrument of your peace …
And may your love reach out to many through our work and our worship.
Use us, we pray.
Save us, we pray.
So that we can glorify you, make disciples, and meet the needs of our community in an ever-changing world.
In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, saying, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done …
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