Prayers of Church & Community, August 11, 2024
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Your love, dear God, is our salvation.
Your kindness is the anchor of our soul.
Your mercy is a guiding light
in every lonely darkened night.
We are yours … O God.
Your hand is upon us.
Christ in our hearts.
Christ in our dreams.
Christ all along the way.
We pray for ourselves, dear God, that we might embrace more of Christ, live more intentionally, and be ever so kind to one another.
We pray for health of mind and body,
we pray for the courage to speak up … in the face of ignorance and bigotry … and we pray for patience, and the wisdom, to hold our tongue, and be quiet.
we pray for peace of mind …
we pray for confidence in your faithfulness,
When we have done all that we can, O God, remind us of the great truth of faith:
you will complete the work that remains,
and call into being - that which is still to come.
We pray for those who lead … for the United Nations … women and men of vision, who see the better day - a world where children are fed, women honored, a world where everyone can sit in the shade of their own fig tree and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Bless Westminster, we pray, in its quest for the future … bless all who come here to worship … all who join with us via YouTube … bless our neighborhoods, our schools and libraries … bless the banker and the broker, the shop keeper and the postal clerk, the truck driver and the warehouse worker; the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker … bless the community organizer and the social worker … bless the fire fighter and the police officer … bless, we pray, the story teller and the actor, those in front of the camera, and those behind it … those who dance and sing and lift our spirits … we lift them up to you, O LORD, and hold them in our prayers.
In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ who taught us to pray, saying:
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 debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
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