Prayer for Today – June 1

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

June 1, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

What is it within us, Lord, that causes us to perpetuate the sins of the past? What is it in our make-up that pushes us to categorize and divide our human family? Is it some residue of Cain’s jealousy of and viciousness against his brother that is embedded in us? As the prophet Nathan pierced the veil covering King David’s crime, pierce our own complacency, we pray, that we who remain silent at the sight of injustice will know we are also guilty in your eyes. Forgive our blundering selfishness.

O Lord, hear us, help us, heal us.    

Another prophet once said that “Riot is the language of the unheard.” Unstop our ears and our hearts, we pray, that we might detect the cries of the oppressed; for only in listening will we behold your road to redemption. The new questions will be hard and the answers equally disturbing, for much is required of us. Will I reach out to dialogue with those whose skin color is different from my own? Will I help lay open the inequities that exist in our community? Will I take the risk to personally work alongside those who are oppressed? Through your mercy, may we answer rightly.

O Lord, hear us, help us, heal us.

As beings of your creation, you behold each of us as your very own child. We appear as wondrous trees standing alone; but underneath, we are as gnarled roots, knotted tightly within the soil of your sacred love. Only with roots entwined, held together by your living grace, will we grow straight and tall, thriving as community. And by that same grace, we pray you would receive these praises and these pleas for assistance from our Church Street family:

  • A happy couple celebrate their recent engagement
  • Head wound surgery went smoothly; pray for clear path report
  • Gratitude for the long life of a faithful member & for her Christian example
  • Thankful for prayers: a co-worker who suffered a stroke has been released from rehab and has returned home to his family
  • Family celebrate their son who suffered a tragic accident is now home from the hospital & will recover—please continue praying
  • Healing of our nation’s racial divisions and unjust practices
  • Safety of policemen & women who serve to protect our communities
  • Three anxiously awaiting medical test results, that news will be promising
  • Lift up parents grieving the death of their 24-yr-old son; solace for his siblings
  • Two members who are struggling with depression

O Lord, hear us, help us, heal us.

This day, may all our prayers be acceptable and rise to heaven, joining all those petitions from around the globe in the name of our Savior, who taught us to pray:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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Prayer for Today – May 29

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 29, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Wind of Heaven, we wait today with your disciples in the comforting stillness of that upper room. In our own timidity, we are not prepared for that gushing wind that rips open the windows and overturns our neatly arranged accessories. We are astonished to hear ourselves speaking in unknown tongues, and yet we understand each other perfectly! If it takes such a whirring display to teach us the language of love and community, then let your strong winds blow, O Lord, let them blow!

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Flame of Newness, neither are we prepared for the fingers of flame that circled closely, then rested upon us. These melt away our distractions and call us to witness your unrestrained power at hand. Set fire to our hearts that have long grown cold and indifferent, we pray. When we tremble with fear, ignite us with your glowing new challenges. And may all our false aims and self-centeredness perish in the rubble of your refining grace. If it takes a mystifying blaze to purify our spirits, then release your flame of newness, O Lord, release your flame of newness.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.

You appear in our midst, O God, on the wings of a dove, a harbinger of your redeeming peace. You arrive at the perfect moment, knowing already the challenges we face and the toll this current pandemic has taken. You come to feed hearts hungering for your presence. Make that presence known to each suffering soul, and especially to those of our Church Street family who offer their own concerns:

  • Grateful for prayers – an elderly father is released from the hospital
  • Gratitude: for the ministry of Rev. Chuck Starks and his family
  • Thankful that a sister will be able to recover from her stroke
  • One offers thanksgiving that a vacation has been scheduled
  • Healing mercies for a member: surgery today to cleanse a head wound
  • Prayers for a member having nerve ablation today, for healing of great pain
  • Courage & strength: member very ill with diabetes now in isolation unit
  • Safe delivery of a member’s baby, peace for the waiting family
  • Two women who are recovering at home, for decreasing pain and healing
  • Prayers for one who is depressed, that he may be able to overcome it
  • Healing mercies for five persons newly diagnosed with Covid-19
  • Continued prayers for a neighbor suffering from brain cancer and his family

Lift us all on your white wings of hope, we pray, and carry us to that healing place.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.

You come to us, O Holy One, as the power of the roaring wind, as a spark that ignites, and as a dove whose soaring movements cannot be traced. And you come, not just at Pentecost, but every time we open our hearts to your inspiration. Grant that we might become bold enough to share with the world the marvels of our Great Sustainer, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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Prayer for Today – May 28

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 28, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Weaver of Hope, you have fashioned a multi-colored treasure for us throughout the years. The sky-blue love of friends and family, the golden faithfulness of those who root for us, who wait to hear from us, the emerald accolades that come our way, the coral assurance that we are loved as we are, and the plum promise of a new beginning each and every day. All these are as ribbons woven together into a vivid blanket of blessing. Cover us with that blanket, Lord, especially when the chill of depression fills the night air. And we will remember all that we have received from you and will know that it is more than sufficient.

In your grace, O Lord, hear our prayer.    

O Love Without Equal, at times during this gray interlude of isolation, our thoughts turn to those who are not as fortunate as ourselves. And it is well that our souls recognize the somber side of life in this realm. We hear of those who are hurting in their private lives. Let us not overlook those whose loved ones have died, those saddened by family pressures, those whose diseases cannot be cured, those whose burdens cannot be borne alone. We lift up to you light all those who may be despairing this day, especially these whose names we whisper in the silence . . . May each know your tender mercy and feel their hearts strangely warmed.

In your grace, O Lord, hear our prayer. 

O Hidden Source of Calm, your Son once asked the blind man a simple question: “What do you want me to do for you?” We believe the same question is asked of us in our age; therefore, we boldly make our requests known to you, especially these which are voiced by our members of our Church Street family:

  • Grateful for prayers – a house closing went smoothly
  • Gratitude: public servants who help the unemployed navigate the system
  • After 3 bleak months, a businesswoman is thankful her work is increasing
  • Thankful for prayers: a sister with cancer has received some promising news
  • Family grateful for the days spent with a father and grandfather before his died
  • Praises: a grandson’s ACL and meniscus surgery went well, prayers for recovery
  • Courage and strength for a member with diabetes now in a therapy unit
  • Peace and comfort for a loving son and his family burying his father today
  • Healing prayers: a father injured in a fall and a young man with a brain bleed
  • Five members who valiantly continue their cancer treatments
  • Beloved relative who remains in ICU, isolated from her family
  • Continued prayers for a sister recovering from a stroke
  • Family & friends mourning the loss of a wonderful mother

As you are ever ready to hear us, attend to the needs of your people, O God, and we will ever tell of your constancy.

In your grace, O Lord, hear our prayer.

You have not left us comfortless, for we have your Holy Spirit and your abiding care; so we commit ourselves anew to you, relying upon Christ as our own Example and our Redeemer:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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Prayer for Today – May 27

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 27, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

Bidden or unbidden, the Lord is with us. Soundless Seeker, are you sitting on the nearby bench or rustling among the leaves overhead? Are you kneeling at the bedside when I pray, or humming with me in the flower bed? You never miss an opportunity to woo us – for where we are, there you also want to be. In this interim, as we discover more about ourselves and our own spirit longings, may we discover you as well. For in truth, they are one in the same.

O Love Never Ending, hear our prayer.    

Consoling Counselor, be with those who weep this day: those in the grip of illness, in the web of depression, those in the valley of confusion, neglect, loneliness, hunger, or death. You hear every cry, O Lord, so answer the pleas of your children. And it is true you also gave us ears to detect the sobbing of suffering souls among us. Fine-tune our hearing, we pray, that we might become the Compassionate Christ knocking on the door of the despondent ones and binding their open wounds. Yes, it requires courage to cross those thresholds, but you will supply it.

O Love Never Ending, hear our prayer.

How fortunate we are that you loved us and sought us even before we first drew breath! Fill our lungs with your spirit wind, we pray, that we might sing of your goodness and glory. And in your mercy, breathe on us this day and revive us, as we offer the praises and the concerns of your people at Church Street:

  • Newlyweds celebrate purchasing their first home in Alabama
  • Gratitude for the life of a wonderful Christian mother who died on Saturday
  • Gratitude and guidance for young couple settling in Knox after a long absence
  • One is thankful for a short vacation to restore her family’s spirits
  • Praises: following surgery, a friend will require neither chemo nor radiation
  • Prayers for a mother having medical tests this afternoon – that all goes well
  • Healing prayers for a father injured in a fall over the weekend
  • Relief of pain for a member recovering from foot surgery
  • Son (29) suffering brain bleed and serious complications after a fall; that he might receive the best of treatment; peace for his family
  • Blessings for a mother suffering a malignancy, strength for her family
  • Strength for a caregiver, that she does not overextend herself
  • Full recovery for a sister who suffered a stroke over the weekend
  • Solace for those who are isolated from loved ones and families who grieve

O Love Never Ending, hear our prayer.

You are age to age the same, O Eternal One, so into your hands, we commend our past, our present, and our future, knowing we will still dwell with you when all time is blended together in love:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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Prayer for Today – May 26

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BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 26, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

“Hail the Day that sees him rise!” Let the trumpets sound! Our Risen Lord deserves our songs of praise! So sing we during this interval when we celebrate our Ascended Savior. O God, we offer praise for your Beloved Son who now rules with you in Paradise. We pray his song might become a drumbeat keeping time in our thoughts, a wind of change sweeping through our spirits, a loving tune that would make its home in our souls. Refine us, that we might become worthy instruments of your intent.

Hear us, Good Lord.    

Ever-Loving One, we indeed have sorrows: our movements are restricted, our older loved ones are isolated and lonely, our work has changed or disappeared altogether, and we are unable to worship with friends. It is difficult to set aside these setbacks, but we pray you would wipe away all our thoughts colored with negativity this day. The wise man has told us that if in all our ways we acknowledge you, then you will direct our path. You have directed us thus far, O Holy One, so why should we question your presence when the road becomes furrowed?

Hear us, Good Lord.

In so many ways you have blessed us, O Cherished One, so listen as we acknowledge the gifts you have laid at our feet in recent days: . . .

How marvelous is your name in all the earth! Also receive, we pray, these personal thanksgivings and concerns that are on the hearts of our church family:

  • A thankful family celebrates the birth of a new baby
  • One is grateful for prayers: safe travel during bereavement and family visits
  • Thanksgiving for help received in solving a legal matter
  • One is grateful for a personal gift beyond compare
  • Continued prayers for a son recovering from surgery
  • Healing for a dear friend with cancer and a mother with leukemia
  • Strength for a widow and her daughters who help her move to a new home
  • Full recovery for a sister who suffered a stroke over the weekend
  • Strength, guidance, and grace for one who is caregiver for an ill friend
  • Protection from illness of a son and daughter-in-law in NC
  • Safety for a daughter moving across the country today

We know you will touch us with your tender mercy and will remain at our side. For that assurance, and for the ways you heal us, we are humbled.

Hear us, Good Lord.

With the turmoil across the globe and the uncertainty of our health and economy, we worry about the date and time of your return, O Christ. But you told us that such matters are not our concern. So help us to lay aside our questions and timetables, and place our lives in your hands, knowing the ascension was full of promise. We WILL see Jesus again, and on that day, our uncertainty will turn into joy. Until then, let us faithfully watch and wait, all the while offering the words our Savior taught us:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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Prayer for Today – May 25

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 25, 2020: Memorial Day

Pastor Jan

 

O One Who Calls Us Anew, help us to remember that our lives are ephemeral, and the number of our days does not really matter. What does matter is the quality of how we live each one of them. For this reason, you offer us a new beginning every morning – a clean slate on which to record the ways you have blessed us and how, in turn, we have endeavored to be a blessing to others.

Hear us, O Lord, for your mercy is great.    

Author of Peace, today we recall the freedoms of the nation in which we live. How easy it is to take them for granted, to accept them as our special birthright. Forgive us, we pray, when we forget the uniformed and civilian brothers and sisters who were caught up in battles not of their own making, and how their own lives were scarred forever by the travesties of war. Thousands upon thousands lost their lives, along with their vanished dreams of earthly happiness. Forgive us when we forget our existence today is made possible only by your grace and by those who bore the bitter struggles of yesterday. Help us in our own time to create a world where peace is the norm, not the exception, and that it is ever laced with justice and love.

Hear us, O Lord, for your mercy is great.

All-Knowing One, we are aware that there are many throughout our own world whose days are filled with strife and piercing fear. We cannot know the depth of their pain, but you know. Watch over each one, we pray, and fashion for the suffering ones a place of comfort. And also accept these individual prayers which come from the hearts of our Church Street family:

  • Gratitude from a member who recovers from a successful heart procedure
  • Praises: a husband & wife, attacked with a machete, are both stable and face a long recovery, but send deep gratitude for prayers for them
  • Member is grateful for those praying for her Friday — surgery went well
  • A father has been released from the hospital – thank you for prayers
  • A son’s surgery was successful – parents are relieved and grateful
  • Healing for a father grieving his broken marriage – for renewal & hope
  • A Christian couple who cannot find an accepting church in their county
  • Solace for one who suffers periods of panic & anxiety
  • Healing mercies for a mother bearing great pain
  • Prayers for our bishop & cabinet as they make church reopening decisions
  • Hold together a family supporting a beloved mother with deep health issues
  • Continued improvement in a mother’s struggle with leukemia

We feel your movement in our days and we pray you would hold our gaze steady. May we never lose sight of you, though you are walking just a few steps ahead.

Hear us, O Lord, for your mercy is great.

We commend ourselves into your loving care this day, offering the prayer that reflects our dependence upon and our trust in Christ, our Forever Friend:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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Prayer for Today – May 22

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 22, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Silent One, you lightly wrap us around with tenderness. From the pink gauze of sun’s dawning, to the quiet reverie of verdant valleys in the distance, you speak to us. “Come, behold my glories,” you say. From the flushed row of roses to the mist that hangs over the edge of the garden, you offer us treasures that are ours for the taking. We praise you, O Creator, clothed in holiness. You come to us in quiet kindness and leave us marveling in the shimmering stillness.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O One Who Walks With Us, in the hours to come, may we follow the teaching of the apostle of long ago. May the peace of Christ rule in our hearts this day, and may we be clothed with compassion and kindness. Keep us, Good Lord, from malice, slander, and abusive words. Wrap us around with your humility, gentleness, and patience. And above all, may the forgiveness of Christ overflow in us, that we might stretch out a gracious hand to those who may harm us in any way.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Holy is the time you spend with us, O Patient One. Drape us with the serenity of your Son, that we may wait calmly for your guidance and for your answers to the pleas of our hearts. You ever hear us, so with confidence we raise these prayers to you:

  • Prayers appreciated: a heart procedure on Thursday was successful
  • One is grateful for an upcoming birthday and for all the blessings he has received
  • Gratitude: an ill member continues to inspire others with his faith, courage, and optimism
  • Thanksgiving for a sister who is recovering well following surgery
  • A son whose father died on Tuesday & stepmother died Thursday – may he & his family feel the Lord’s presence and comfort
  • Pray for a faithful member having foot surgery today, that all goes well
  • Traveling mercies for grieving sister & daughter flying to a funeral today
  • Guidance for one who cares for his wife who has memory loss
  • A mother who is dealing with leukemia & her family who care for her
  • For our loved ones who are plagued with depression & loneliness
  • Peace & healing for elderly father hospitalized with heart condition
  • Healing & help for a mother who cares for a dear friend with pleurisy

Thank you, O Lord, for blanketing us with your love, particularly during these weeks of separation from dear ones. May we learn the lessons you have sprinkled throughout this interval, for we know you are ever working on our behalf, regardless of our circumstance. And all these petitions we gladly lift to you, for you are our Beginning and our End, Father of the Son who taught us to pray:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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New Prayer Schedule

Beginning tomorrow, we will send out a new prayer each Monday through Friday and will take a short break on Saturdays and Sundays. We hope you’ll join Church Street for worship on Sundays at 10 am on our YouTube channel!

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Prayer for Today – May 21

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 21, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Ageless One, you sent us Jesus who told stories of everyday living. He spoke of money, taxes, greed, forgiveness, loving, sharing, sadness and lostness. As those who listened intently so long ago, so may we listen to those timeless simple stories that never grow stale and never fail to prick our souls.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

And as we listen, we are discovering day by day just what Jesus asks of us. He calls us to live the life that he lived, and it is not easy. Give us courage, we pray, to say “yes” to that One Who Calls this day and each day. We know it will be a struggle to keep our pledge; but when we err, shake us up, turn us around, and point us toward that narrow path, the path of love that leads to Christ.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

We feel you ever so near, O Healing One, and we believe you alone are sustaining us in this era of challenge. Deliver us, we pray, especially in the evening hours when the lights grow dim, that we might remain witnesses to your enduring love. And as you invited us to do so, we again lay our concerns and thanksgivings before you, knowing that you are already moving within us to bring about a new thing:

  • A member’s depression is improving, grateful for continued prayers
  • Grieving husband is grateful for all who are praying on his behalf
  • Young member is thankful that a summer wedding date has been set
  • One appreciates the extra efforts of church staff in providing worship and other ways to keep us connected
  • Thank you for praying: one injured in a bodily attack is now stable
  • An elderly cousin infected with Covid-19
  • Son removed from ventilator, died yesterday; please pray for his family as they travel for his services
  • Healing for a younger sister whose whole life has been a struggle
  • Pray for decreased pain, increased energy for a mother fighting leukemia, for God’s guidance for her & her family as they care for her
  • One who suffers from anxiety & depression amid this pandemic
  • Peace & healing for elderly father hospitalized with heart condition
  • Pray for a son who undergoes surgery today
  • Prayers for a member who has a pacemaker implanted today
  • Healing & help for a mother who cares for a dear friend with pleurisy

We thank you, Loving One, for receiving these prayers of our hearts. In whatever way you think best, attend to our pleas.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

God of Salvation who sent your Son to seek and to save, pour out your courage upon us this day, that we might serve you faithfully all our days. And at the last, may you find us still breathing those words taught us by Jesus himself:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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New Prayer Schedule

Beginning Saturday, we will send out a new prayer each Monday through Friday and will take a short break on Saturdays and Sundays. We hope you’ll join Church Street for worship on Sundays at 10 am on our YouTube channel!

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Prayer for Today – May 20

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 20, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

We receive this day the majestic declaration from the psalmist:

“O Lord, how beautiful is your name in all the earth! When I consider your heavens and the work of your hands, what is humankind that you are mindful of us? Yet you have made us a little lower than the angels and crowned us with glory and honor.” Thanks be to you, O Resplendent One, for your generosity is unequalled and your kindness is without compare.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

In spite of your trust in us, Faithful Lord, we must confess that we have not lived up to your confidence. We have been beguiled by the ways of the world and have spoken harshly and critically, piercing the hearts of others. We have been obstinate when the situation called for leniency. We have held back funds for our own amusement, forgetting those who have so little. Forgive us, we pray, for these times we have strayed and also for the sins we lay before you . . .

But let us be confident once again, for with gentleness you speak to us; with graciousness you cleanse us; with joy you embrace us.  Thanks be to God!

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Friend To All In Need, you never promised us an easy life and we recall how Jesus’ own days were rife with abuse and agony. Earthly struggles will remain until all hearts turn to your gracious plan. Till then, watch over all who are weary in mind, body, and spirit. And offer your grace to each of these members of our church family who offer these prayers today:

  • Gratitude: a family in NYC has remained safe from contracting the virus
  • Thanksgiving: Beacon of Hope and Benevolence Ministries who feed the hungry, lift up the poor, provide rent, utility, and medical assistance every week
  • A friend on disability is elated for a generous gift of fresh vegetables and fruit
  • One is thankful and relieved that his medical condition was easily corrected
  • Strength and guidance for a sister whose adult son is on a ventilator
  • Healing for a younger sister whose whole life has been a struggle
  • A member saddened by the recent death of his grandmother
  • Pray for a great niece who is pregnant & has Covid-19
  • Healing for a relative in ICU who continues to decline
  • Prayers for an elderly member who will have surgery on Thursday
  • Healing mercies for one undergoing chemo and dialysis treatments
  • A couple recovering in hospital from wounds inflicted by an attacker

We thank you that you have untied our burdens and are already at work, carrying us, soothing us, and making us whole.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Let us go forth into this new day, knowing that the Lord will direct our path and will hear us as we pray as one body:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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New Prayer Schedule

Beginning Saturday, we will send out a new prayer each Monday through Friday and will take a short break on Saturdays and Sundays. We hope you’ll join Church Street for worship on Sundays at 10 am on our YouTube channel!

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Prayer for Today – May 19

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Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 19, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Lord, you are in the midst of us and we are called by your name. We lean in closely to catch a glimpse of you in our midst. Do you come as the one with the rolling cart that holds all his soiled belongings in one heap? Do you appear as the one with the vacant stare peering from the nursing home window? Are you the hungry one in the grocery line clutching a few cans of beans and a SNAP food card? You wear many faces, O Holy One, so sharpen our vision, we pray, lest we fail to offer you help and homage along the way.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Living Voice, since our earliest days, we have been taught that we are called by your name that that you even wooed us in our infancy. As you created us to mature in body, your desire is that we also grow in wisdom and set aside our childish notions. Forgive us, we pray, when we hang onto foolish dreams of yesterday. We carry around old suitcases filled with grudges, youthful errors, blatant blunders, terrible mistakes, and thoughts of what-might-have-been. If we are truly called by your name of Love, help us grow in our forgiveness of others and indeed ourselves. For you call us forward, and those whom you call, you will strengthen and sustain.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O One Close By, you hear each utterance of gratitude that comes from our hearts and you also are aware of everything that causes us pain and anxiety. Thank you, Good Lord, for knowing us through and through, and for embracing us when we need to feel your closeness. In your own way, touch each in our church family, and especially these who offer their prayers this day:

  • Thankful for prayers: young boy of 8 with leukemia now allowed to leave St. Jude and return to his family for chemo treatments
  • Someone is thankful that she will have a temporary job to help with finances
  • Grateful for prayers: medical tests reflected no cause for concern
  • One offers praises that she is able to recapture part of her normal income
  • Family grateful for a week of respite following a nephew’s funeral
  • Pray for a member bearing ongoing pain following treatments, for healing
  • Increased strength & patience for a father recovering from serious surgeries
  • Prayers for a member who continues her move to a new home today
  • Continued prayers for those who are grieving loss of loved ones
  • Couple tragically injured in a criminal assault – both critical at Vanderbilt Hospital
  • Easing of pain for someone recovering from an accident
  • A member who steadfastly continues his lengthy cancer treatments
  • Elderly member hospitalized, that he will be released soon to return home

For the tender care with which you treat our innermost selves, we remain grateful.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Guide us, O God, by your Holy Spirit, that all our prayers and all our lives may reflect our belief in and our will to serve only you, through Christ our Lord, who taught us to pray:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 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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New Prayer Schedule

Beginning this Saturday, we will send out a new prayer each Monday through Friday and will take a short break on Saturdays and Sundays. We hope you’ll join Church Street for worship on Sundays at 10 am on our YouTube channel!

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