Prayers of Church & Community, September 8, 2024
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Holy God, Eternal Light,
Creator of the heavens and the earth.
Help us, we pray, with your Holy Spirit, to align our hearts with the heart of Christ, our minds to see the world he saves, our feet to walk in his pathways, our hands ready to bless the children of the world.
We are grieved, O God, by the school shootings in Georgia & Maryland …
LORD God Almighty, we pray for mercy … and we pray for courage …
The courage to create good laws on the sale of guns and ammunition … health care programs to assist families with troubled children … leaders who will help us face the causes of social violence, who will speak the truth to all of us …
In your mercy, dear God, do not forgive us … but trouble us all the more, stir the waters of conscience, reveal to us our sins of greed and power, that the death of children is not a fact of life, but a failure of our soul … trouble us, we pray, until we see our responsibility in all of this.
Holy God, in this place of rest and peace, we find find our true selves - daughters and sons of the Most High God, servants of Christ …
Thank you, dear God, for who we are, for the gifts of life you’ve so generously given …
Holy God, Eternal Light, remind us that our work here and now is connected to eternity … every earthly good deed adds to the glory and beauty of heaven … our words, our prayers added to the songs of angels and to the high praise of the saints.
Bless Westminster, we pray … bless our loved ones … bless us one and all, that we might leave here revived and restored, ready to face the week ahead, what e’re may come …
For you, O God, are at our side, your Spirit lives within us … your faithfulness endures to all generations … your steadfast love is our comfort …you are the Good Shepherd, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort us.
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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