Prayers of Church & Community, Nov. 10, 2024
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Holy God, Eternal Light, to whom belong all the nations of the world … in whose hand is the ebb and flow of all events … the relentless march of time … the glory and the sorrow … the loss and the gain … with love, O God, thou carest for the earth … with wrath, O God, thou judgeth our folly and our failure.
Be with us this day, O God, … in this little moment of time, when we open our minds to the word of Christ, our hearts to his love, our souls to his future …
Deliver us, we pray, from fear, revive our faith … by your Holy Spirit, refresh our weary souls and refine our ambitions … whatever our sorrows may be, O God, whatever our hopes are, help us, we pray, to be centered in Christ all the more, lest the tides of the moment sweep us into the deeps of grief, or onto the heights of joy … that in our grief, we would not lose sight of Christ, O God … and in our joy, to still hear his words of benediction … save us, we pray, from digging our own graves of sorrow, or climbing our own mountains of joy.
Bless our church, we pray, and all houses of prayer.
Bless our homes and our communities, our schools and where we work.
Bless Imre’s wife, Miletta … and her family in Hungary … be with all those we love and all for whom we care.
Bless our government, and see us through the days of transition and challenge …
Bless our neighbor-nations, O God, Canada and Mexico, and all the democratic nations of the world … may freedom’s light shine bright, may peace be sought, and arms laid down … by your grace, O God, save us from our worst instincts … by your love enhance our best intentions.
That in the end, dear God, we may stand before you without shame … having served you in faithfulness and peace … having sought and received the grace of your forgiveness … having fulfilled our duties to Christ our LORD, and by his love, O God, having fulfilled our duties to one another.
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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