Prayer for Today – May 3

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 3, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

“All we like sheep have gone astray,” attests the ancient prophet. As it was an apt description in his era, so does his assertion ring true in our own century. How closely we resemble the easily-rattled sheep. At the first sign of trouble, we waver, become confused, and feel our knees wobble. Often we wander aimlessly ahead, unmindful of the pitfalls that may exist. And when danger meets us on that lonely trail, we cry out for the Master to spring to our rescue. We know he is ever listening and his searching will not cease until we are returned to the fold, safe in his care. What wondrous love is this – so undeserved, yet freely bestowed?

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

This Sabbath, we celebrate that Good Shepherd who was wounded for our sakes, yet rose in splendor and majesty to become the Gate through which all must enter to receive his gift of eternal life. “Come,” he says, “take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden light.” He leads us beside sparkling streams, refreshes us with rest in his green fields, and restores our souls which we thought were lost forever.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Cleanse our thoughts and our intentions in this hour, we pray, as you are working to redeem us day by day. We know we will err again before nightfall, but in these moments, wash us with your purest water of grace; then we shall be fit to live in your wide pastures. And receive now these prayers and pleas offered by your flock, our brothers and sisters of Church Street:

  • Gratitude for prayers: a father in ICU has miraculously come through a 3rd surgery, has taken a few steps & has spoken with loved ones; please continue to pray for healing.
  • A husband offers gratitude for his 45th wedding anniversary today
  • A couple rejoices that they were able to see their young grandchildren for the first time in 2 months
  • Faithful member rejoices that the love of God has filled his heart in this time of isolation
  • Gratitude that a young professor tested negative for COVID-19, but other tests revealed a mild stroke: pray for wisdom for those making treatment plans
  • A mother with renal failure shows signs of improving; continued prayers are appreciated
  • Prayers today for all who join at graveside in celebrating the life of an adored mother
  • Safety for all who are returning to work
  • Touch the hearts of grieving friends making funeral plans for loved ones
  • Wisdom for hospital administrators & health-related offices as they open their facilities
  • A businessman and his family under great stress due to economic downturn
  • Prayers for a mother of teenagers who faces a dilemma; for her courage, wisdom and strength
  • A young adult son who remains in a coma
  • A young wife in Texas just diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer; for distraught family

This small effort of prayer we offer this day, knowing that our mere words break apart when we consider the depth of the Good Shepherd’s love; yet it is in his house of mercy we hope to dwell forever and ever:

Our father who are 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 2

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 2, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

You know we aren’t very good at waiting, but are comforted to feel you are waiting with us, O Patient One. We’ve become accustomed to our microwave, the remote control, instant messaging, the prompt reply. They have their place, of course, but you ask us that we are to live in the moment — neither obsessing about the past nor fast-forwarding to tomorrow. We know you live in kairos time, and a thousand years in your sight are a mere day to you; yet our linear human thinking makes it hard to be content with only the present awareness. We are a people pledged to live more closely with you, however, so show us how to use our moments wisely. And perhaps we will discover what a valuable treasure you offer, second by second.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Although we are often slow learners in our Christian walk, Good Teacher, you send us vivid hints throughout our days. When we are sated with nourishing meals, we encounter those who have no food. While we have energy to exercise and have avoided the virus, we learn of vulnerable ones who waste away from malnutrition and disease. Just when we are contemplating the purchase of a new family car, we pass by the man sentenced to limping every mile on foot. We look at our bank balance, knowing we can count on the monthly deposit, but we are told there are millions who have lost everything in recent months. What would we really have, O Lord, if you did not give it? Ours is certainly a world of inequities, but daily the question haunts us:  “Am I helping mitigate the situation, or am I perpetrating the disparity?”

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Thank you for giving us chance after chance to set things right, Dearest Friend. We trust that you never give up on us, and that you continue to welcome our prayers that come from our hearts, especially these we bring in this hour:

  • Gratitude for prayers: a father in ICU has miraculously come through a 3rd surgery, is responsive, and has spoken to his family; thanks be to God!
  • Thank you for praying: my relative’s mastectomy Friday was deemed a success with no lymph node involvement
  • An elderly mother has been released from the hospital after 14 days; family is grateful for all prayers
  • A mother with renal failure shows signs of improving; continued prayers are appreciated
  • Pleased that some are able to return to work; that all might remain safe
  • Grace and solace for a family whose mother died today
  • Lift up the grieving hearts of family members – a beloved brother died today
  • Wisdom for hospital administrators and health-related officials as they open their facilities
  • Please pray for a nephew whose small business is at risk
  • A businessman who is under great stress due to economic downturn
  • A son in need of work – no prospects for months, and he is frantic
  • Prayers for a mother of teenagers who faces a dilemma; for her courage and strength
  • A young wife in Texas just diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer; for distraught family

We are aware that these situations as already enveloped in your grace, Loving Lord. Work out your healing plan in whatever ways you deem best.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

As you understand our deep desire to be faithful, it is your love which helps us regain our footing each time we falter.  Hear now these words taught us so long ago by that One who guides each soul seeking to follow:

Our father who are 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 1

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 1, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart. Help us to abandon our outworn ways of thinking. Grant that we might face the future with eager anticipation, not with cowering trepidation.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart. Expand the horizons of our imagination, we pray, that we might awaken sleeping notions within ourselves, and instead dream of a new tomorrow. Who knows what is possible when we break down the barriers of fear?

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart. You have traveled with us, giving us food and shelter throughout this long journey. Along the way you have been transforming us into people of the gospel, people who strive to love tenderly, act justly, and walk humbly with our God.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart. You notice our tangled needs at every turn, O One Who Neither Slumbers Nor Sleeps. You are the God who counts our tears and hears our sighs. Gaze now upon all your children who hold out their graces and their worries to your open hand:

  • Thankful for all prayers lifted for a young father in ICU; surgery yesterday is counted as a success; please continue to lift him up and his family as well
  • Very grateful for your prayers: a mother in renal failure is improving each day
  • Celebrating a (nurse) daughter’s recovery from COVID-19 and who is working again
  • Giving thanks for all our amazing healthcare workers & first responders
  • Pray for all staff and residents in Athens Life Care facility where virus is rampant
  • Wisdom for all decision-makers reopening hospitals and businesses; safety for all
  • A family in turmoil – for grace, understanding, and forgiveness to take place
  • Please pray for my cherished relative who has cancer surgery today
  • Continued prayers for healing a beloved mother, hospitalized for 1 week
  • An ill and stressed mother in the hospital, whose children are not allowed to visit
  • Courage for a mother who must confront a situation that endangers her children
  • A brother who mourns the death of his partner from COVID-19, for healing grace
  • Prayers for economic recovery, relief for the unemployed, decreased anxiety for business owners trying to stay afloat

As you have received all these petitions, accept also our most private prayers and concerns . . .

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart.

May it be said of us that we were carriers of your new vision – those who helped create a world where peace is ever laced with kindness and blessing.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;

Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art;

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall;

Still be my Vision, O Ruler of All.

Amen.

 

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Prayer for Today – April 30

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

April 30, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

Jesus, Humble Savior, we hear your soft knock on our door every morning.  Sadly, sometimes we are busy and refuse to answer. At other times we feel guilty and leave the door shut, not wanting to admit our self-centeredness.  Forgive our lack of hospitality, we pray. Help us to center ourselves on your love and pattern our lives after yours. Then our ears will be attuned to your quiet rapping, and we will fling wide the door of our hearts, embracing you as our most Welcome Guest.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O God So Near Yet Far, we long for the trust we once had in you. We miss the deep faith we’ve somehow lost along the way. We know, of course, that your love for and faith in us is changeless, and that there is nothing we can do to alter that. The withering, rather, is on our part, for we have forgotten to make you the center of our lives. Remind us that today is not too late to rebuild our relationship with the Holy. We begin by sharing with you our wholehearted gratitude for all you have meant to us throughout our days . . . We honor you, we praise you, we pledge to remember the limitless ways you continue to move in our lives.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

We have witnessed your work among us throughout these long and onerous weeks, and we know you are eager to bring us to that new land where strange illnesses do not attack the vulnerable. So hear our own private prayers we offer in the silence of our souls . . . and also work within these situations that are borne by our church friends:

  • Thankful for prayers: a cherished mother died peacefully and is now with the Lord
  • Celebrating a daughter’s passing her internal medicine boards
  • Gratitude: a friend’s rectal cancer surgery was successful; please pray for healing
  • Giving thanks for all our amazing healthcare workers and first responders
  • Grateful for faithful leaders who are supporting, loving and guiding our youth group
  • Wisdom for all decision-makers planning reopening of healthcare facilities and businesses; safety for all concerned
  • Pray for recovery for very ill beloved father, husband, and faithful member in ICU
  • Please pray that a daughter’s home financing in St. Louis comes through ASAP
  • Prayers for continued safety of frontline physicians in DC, LA, and Scotland
  • Lift up a relative who faces cancer surgery tomorrow – that all will go well
  • Healing for two mothers in the hospital, blessings and peace for their adult children
  • Prayers for a home closing to take place on schedule this month
  • Courage for a mother who must confront a situation that endangers her children
  • All who are unemployed, in need of financial help; business owners who are experiencing great stress

Clear our minds and calm our spirits this day, for we know that your healing power alone can make us whole again.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Accept all our prayers and touch the most wounded places in our souls this day, for we offer these in the name of Jesus, the Great Healer, 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 – April 29

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

April 29, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O God, Just and Merciful, your Son affirmed the great value of every human life, and he worked to break down the barriers that separate us. Our minds, though, are forever categorizing our brothers and sisters:  those who believe as we believe and those whose beliefs are outside the box; those who are financially successful and those who barely exist from paycheck to paycheck; those who are well-read and well-educated and those who exhibit only mediocre schooling; the well-scrubbed and the great unwashed. As long as these patterns of discrimination exist within us, they will consistently collide with the love of Christ. Unbind us from this stiff rope of typecasting, we pray, lest we miss the kingdom’s goal.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

As you treasure each of us, O Loving Parent, we submit our gratitude for all the mercies you have laid at our doorstep: the adaptability of children, business owners who seek to protect their customers, our country where we are free to speak out, government monies helping the unemployed, ingenuity of those searching for ways to help the isolated and hungry, medical teams and first responders. And above all, when we are forgotten by others, we have a Savior who remembers and calls us by name. Your gifts abound, and we humbly thank you.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

There remain, however, those concerns that leave us anxious and interrupt our sleep. As you instructed, we bring these to you . . .

Hear us, we pray, and also receive these prayers earnestly extended by members of our church family:

  • Thankful that recent scans reflected no lesions on a sister’s lungs
  • Gratitude: daughter and son-in-law, front-line Nashville physicians, remain healthy
  • Gratitude: a very ill friend on ventilator is now recuperating in a rehab center
  • Thanksgiving for a mother released from the hospital yesterday
  • Please pray for a friend undergoing rectal cancer surgery today, that all goes well
  • Prayers for strength to help a loved one forgive himself for past mistakes
  • A relative in Florida, recipient of double lung transplant, just returned to ICU
  • Courage and support for a mother confronting a circumstance that is dangerous to the health of her children
  • Guidance and grace for new mother facing a potentially tragic family situation
  • Easing of stress for business owners and for financial recovery to arrive soon
  • Healing of a mother rushed to the hospital last night, peace for her adult children
  • A husband who has a flare-up of Crohn’s disease, for easing of pain and healing
  • Pray for all to find rest, to practice patience and wisdom, and to extend grace to others during this challenging time
  • Wisdom and guidance for all decision-makers planning to open healthcare facilities
  • Pray for a mother nearing death and for her daughter who stands by

As a Loving Mother and Father, and through your infinite goodness, we know you will continue to care for us.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Lord of the Resurrection, your promise of hope lives on in our hearts and was made manifest in your Son, Jesus Christ. As he promised, in your own appointed time we shall gather with all the saints around that bountiful table of peace. Until then, deal kindly with your servants who 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 – April 28

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

April 28, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Love Ever Near, we rejoice that you have brought us to a new day – another chance to experience your grace. Open our senses that we may detect your grace in even the smallest things: faithfulness of the postman, dedication of the grocery workers, the roof that protects us, aroma of dinner on the stove, the unexpected text from a long-ago acquaintance, the dew upon the peonies, the wren that sings despite the rain. All are rare treasures – undeserved and often overlooked. Refresh us through all that we see, hear, taste, smell and feel this day.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O God, Source of All Insight, forgive our shallow understanding of your love for us and the joy you experience when we call your name. Our vaporous concepts cannot contain all that you truly are. Surely it is enough, however, that we know you as Blessed Friend, for a true friend is what we need in this perplexing season in which we now live.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

If not for you, Holy Companion, to whom could we turn? Stay beside us and through your grace, we will step forward with heightened assurance, knowing you will catch us if we fall. Help each of us who offer prayers today, and especially those who offer specific requests. May we all feel the presence of our forever Friend:

  • Gratitude for the life of a great Christian lady – for her faith & lifelong service
  • Gratitude for my grandson’s 13th birthday yesterday
  • Thank you for praying: A friend expects full recovery from COVID-19
  • Thankful for clergy and staff working hard to lead and support our members
  • A relative in Florida, recipient of double lung transplant, just returned to ICU
  • Courage and support for a mother confronting a circumstance that is dangerous to the health of her children
  • Guidance and grace for new mother facing a potentially tragic family situation
  • Prayers for a mother recovering from surgery
  • Please pray for confidence and easing of stress of small business owners and that financial recovery will come soon
  • A dear friend facing surgery tomorrow for rectal cancer and her surgeon
  • Pray for all to find rest, to practice patience and wisdom, and to extend grace to others during this challenging time
  • Wisdom for all decision-makers as they plan to open healthcare facilities – for judicious planning and guidance in keeping staffs, clients, and workers safe
  • Presence of the Holy Spirit for a beloved family member approaching death

These prayers, along with all our unspoken ones, we place in your hands and heart.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Steadfast One, we remember the good news that Jesus brought and we are confident that our trust and his mercy will see us through. It is in his blessed name we do 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 – April 27

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

April 27, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Radiant One, we know your Holy Spirit resurrects and awakens everything that is. It is your empowering goodness that brings life to the seeds of our dreams. As we watch the blossoming earth outside our doors, we pray that you would rouse the sleeping grains of faith you planted within us so long ago, that they might mature tall and strong, becoming a giant tree, providing home and shelter to shade to each fainting traveler who chances to pass our way.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Spirit of Fire, burn away the chaff of our regrets and mistakes this day. We each carry memories of times when we disappointed ourselves, when we failed miserably, when we made life hard for loved ones, when we deceived those who counted on us. Perhaps you, in your grace, erased these missteps decades ago; but we humans continue to cling to shards of the past. With your cleansing flame, remove forever our bitter memories, freeing us to step more lightly on that fresh trail toward wholeness you are already creating for us.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Our hearts make room for thanksgivings, Holy One, for we know you are the author of all goodness. Praises be to you this day! And also we freely offer all the yearnings of our church family to you, for you alone hold the power to make all things new:

  • A faithful church servant celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday
  • An older couple offer gratitude for health and blessings God continues to send
  • Gratitude: a sister recovering from heart surgery is now at home in Lenoir City
  • Thankful that a son is soon to graduate from UT law school
  • Thanksgiving that the availability of virus test kits has increased
  • A mother who underwent emergency surgery on Saturday continues to improve
  • Please pray for confidence and easing of stress of small business owners and that financial recovery will come soon
  • Prayers for a dental worker who is anxious about returning to work
  • Young wife who is pregnant prays that businesses do not open too soon
  • For hope to fill the hearts of those who mourn this day
  • Wisdom for all involved in making decisions in opening of healthcare facilities next week, for judicious planning and guidance in keeping staffs and workers safe
  • A longtime saint of the church urges us to remember Jesus
  • Healing mercies and blessings for a sister suffering at home from advanced cancer
  • Comfort for loved ones nearing death, peace for their families who watch and wait

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

With all that we are and all that we hope to be, we offer these prayers with humble hearts in the name of the Christ, 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 – April 26

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

April 26, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

Creator of This New Day, made Holy through your Son’s resurrection, touch us with your mystery and your surprising hope. We enter this Sabbath, ready to see your power working through us in some bold new way. May we be watchful in the time ahead, lest we miss the hour of your arrival.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Forgive us, Good Lord, when our conversations turn into a litany of complaints, when our thoughts and our discussions reflect the colors of gloom and gray. Remind us that the world has a sufficient supply of moaning and criticism, and our grumbling only clutters the air. Bring your brightness to the dark corners of our souls, we pray, and help us to speak and live as people who trust in their Redeemer.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Still, it is true that you long to hear from your children. As the epistle writer taught: “Cast all your cares upon him, for he cares for you.” Therefore, we need not hesitate to bring our concerns into your presence, for you are aware that we long for stability, the absence of fear, the embrace of loved ones, freedom of movement within our community, gathering with our church friends, the regular paycheck. All these we bring to you, as well as the deepest needs voiced by our church family.

  • Thank you for prayers – man with brain bleed is now out of ICU
  • Homebound mother is grateful for all who send her cards and make her smile
  • Widow is thankful for her neighbor who brings her mail and her groceries
  • Gratitude: a friend only has one more week of total isolation
  • Family grieving death of a young adult son and family grieving death of a husband
  • Healing for an aging mother who had emergency surgery yesterday and for her daughter who worries
  • Blessing of all who are near death, peace for their loved ones who stand by
  • Prayers for a nephew (age 35) is in a coma, drug addiction; peace for his family
  • Continued protection for all healthcare workers and first responders
  • Prayers to sustain parents and family mourning the death of a beloved daughter
  • Prayers for strength and courage for a close friend who faces cancer surgery this week
  • Please pray for confidence and easing of stress of small business owners & that recovery will come soon

Take these, our deepest cares, we pray, and help us to feel you at work in each situation. Ours is not to know all things; yet we believe that every prayer uttered is worthy of your grace and is held in sacred trust in that holy realm.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Stand by us, Strengthening God, for you remain our anchor in these unsettling days.

And it is in the name of our risen friend Jesus that we offer our petitions:

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 – April 25

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

April 25, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

Holy and Gracious One, you know us as people almost always in a hurry. In our rush, we forget to seek you. But in these moments, we ponder that ancient verse from the psalmist: “I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will tell of your wonderful works.” These words still ring true today, as we offer thanksgiving for the ways you have worked in our lives . . .

We feel your abundant love for us, and recall your myriad of favors, too numerous to calculate.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

God of Mercy and Healing, who always hears the cries of those in need, receive these petitions of your people who are troubled and those who have lost their way. Tend to those whom we carry closest to our hearts . . .

Turn your face, we pray, in the direction of all suffering ones. And sharpen our eyes that we might see beyond the cloudy mist to behold your rainbow through the rain.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

And give your assurance to each member of our church family, particularly these who have asked to be remembered:

  • Gratitude: a family celebrates the birth of a new grandniece in Virginia
  • Gratitude for the life of a loving husband; family returns him to Virginia for burial
  • Thanksgiving: staff and residents remain virus-free in a nearby nursing facility
  • A member is thankful for medications that cured strep-throat
  • One couple celebrates their 38th wedding anniversary
  • Prayers for a nephew (age 35) in a coma, drug addiction; peace for his family
  • Continued protection for all healthy first responders, and healing of all afflicted
  • For healing mercies for a friend in great pain from cancer
  • Healing and restoration for business owners who are stressed financially and emotionally
  • Comfort for family of a nephew who died Friday, addiction related (age 29)
  • Healing for a co-worker who suffered a brain bleed on Wednesday
  • Pray for a hospital administrator and his staff as they plan the opening of their facility in early May; that all might remain safe
  • Cousin in Kentucky nursing facility; he and 50 others are infected COVID-19; four have died
  • Wisdom for state and local governments as they decide to reopen businesses

Visit your people and pour out your strength and courage, that we might become a source of strength and courage to our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Accept all our prayers this day, O Divine Flame; and when all other candles dim, grant that we may not forget your Son of Light, 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 – April 24

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

April 24, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

From the rising of the sun, to the going down of the same, may Jesus Christ be praised! Lord, you know our faults even before we name them. You have heard our prayers offered these past weeks and you know what concerns us most deeply. Through the sacrifice of his life and the resurrection of your Son, we know that nothing is impossible for you. Christ has ripped apart the barriers that separate us from your love. And as you know us so well, and you love us so deeply, fill us all with hope, we pray, and grant us your peace.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Forgive us, O Loving Creator, when we don’t give ourselves permission to rest or time to stop and take in the glories you have placed in our midst. And forgive us also for not loving ourselves enough, for too often neglecting our own needs. Help us make time to remember that it was you who knit us together in our mother’s wombs and that we are wonderfully made. Send your Spirit among us this day, that we might receive the joy you intend for us.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

And as you taught us to reveal our innermost thoughts to you, we sincerely offer our gratitudes and our burdens, knowing they will be lovingly received:

  • Gratitude: A faithful member celebrates her latest cancer scans; she is progressing well & is given a reprieve from a harsh medication
  • Gratitude for monies donated thus far to help a family replace a roof
  • Thanksgiving: A member joyfully celebrates her final chemo treatment
  • Prayers for a cherished mother, newly diagnosed lung cancer
  • Pray for a hospital administrator and his staff as they plan the opening of their facility in early May; that all involved might remain safe
  • Prayers for a peaceful death for a beloved mother
  • Beloved uncle with COVID-19 and multiple complications
  • Continued protection for all healthy first responders and healing for those who contracted the virus while serving in the line of duty
  • That governments everywhere be prudent as they move toward reopening public businesses and spaces
  • Business owners who are stressed financially and emotionally – for healing and stability to come
  • Pray for a wife mourning the death of her husband on Wednesday
  • A young cousin very ill, prognosis is not promising and for his family

We sense your presence in each situation, O Gracious One. And in your own silent way, work your miracles among us.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Keep us bound together as one community, Faithful Lord, as the path that lies before us is indistinct; but we know our future is in your loving hands:

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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