BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE
Daily Prayers of the Church Street family
March 19, 2020
Pastor Jan
O Believer in Humankind, the green earth outside our windows speaks of your hand of creation and re-creation. Even within the solemnity of Lent, blossoms, berries, and birds in flight paint the vivid story of your renewing grace. How welcome are these signs of eternal hope! Still, there are those among us whose burdens prevent their gazing upon your spring. Attend especially, we pray, to those who battle illness, those who care for the sick in mind and body, those who are overwhelmed with work, family, or financial pressures, the unemployed, those who cringe behind locked doors, and for all of us who are lost in one way or another. Help us to find our way back to our pure faith of former times, we pray, for indeed, you do believe in us.
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.
We lay before you this day these petitions on behalf of our church family:
- Thanksgiving for a sister’s successful colon surgery yesterday
- Safety for caregivers who work in nursing & retirement homes
- Gratitude for all who serve our Soup Kitchen guests today
- A longtime companion undergoing painful cancer treatments this week
- Friends grieving a dear friend’s death; he succumbed to cancer Monday
- Guidance for all whose weddings are being postponed due to COVID-19
- Wisdom for government officials making decisions to protect the health of populations across the globe
Hear now as we recall those wonders you have brought about in our individual lives in recent days . . . . . . . .
and accept our confessions for our private misdeeds and regrets . . . . . . . .
Forgive us and free us for Christ’s sake.
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.
O Great Protector, let all our prayers join with all those offered to you around the globe this day; and may they be received by the whole company of heaven, and especially by 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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