Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family
Week of March 22, 2022
Rev. Jan Buxton Wade
O God of the Watchful Eye, scripture says no sparrow falls without your notice, and in our amazement, we feel the depth of your concern for all in your earthly family. We sense your grace and glory embedded in the natural world around us, realizing all love begins and ends in you. May the seeds of concern you have scattered so profusely take root in our souls, that we might also learn how to love without condition or gain, but for the pure joy of emulating you.
Lord in your mercy, receive our prayer.
Savior of Limitless Love, we embarked upon our Lenten journey, chronicling our flaws, determined to repent and choose a new route. By your grace, we have progressed; but we confess that we have often stumbled in our aims and have already broken our vows to you and to ourselves, particularly in . . . . . . . . . . Still, we ask that you erase our blunders, and watch over us now, as we sparrows pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and wing onward toward Jerusalem, where you wait in hope for our arrival.
Lord in your mercy, receive our prayer.
There was once a time when we could claim we knew little of the afflictions of the world, but in our technological age, that time is no longer. The misery of the world is immense and is portrayed vividly. The pain of one is your pain and it is ours, O Lord. We, therefore, lift up all involved in the Ukrainian war, especially the innocents and the brave ones serving the injured, bereaved, and homeless; the ill in China who suffer from a new form of the Covid virus; for the victims of crimes here in our own country; for all your people in Eritrea, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan who are imprisoned because their faith or opinions differ from the powerful. Our efforts to rectify often seem so flimsy, yet we pray we might remain hearts who care amid the chaos.
Lord in your mercy, receive our prayer.
As we believe you are the One Whose Concern Never Ceases, we ask that you also receive these expressions of gratitude and the pleas for support from your people at Church Street:
- Thankful for prayers: a blood transplant was completed on Friday
- Praises for visit with infant grandson in CA
- Thankful for father with dementia – still a blessing to all
- Thanksgiving for a job promotion for one of our young members
- Gratitude and hope for the possibility of career advancement
- Prayers appreciated: mother recovering from stroke, now at home
- Gratitude for the love of a mother & for the gentle end to her earthly life
- Celebrations for a colleague’s beautiful wedding on March 20
- Grateful that two members were released from the hospital
- Family thankful that an offer on new home was accepted
- Member offers praise: no sign of cancer on recent scans
- Lift up the family & friends mourning death of cherished wife/mother
- Prayers that surgery for a member will not be required
- Lift up a member having knee surgery on March 24
- Mercy for suffering people of Ukraine – the displaced, the bereaved, the frightened, the wounded, and all in harm’s way
- Prayers for a solution to dispute with neighbor
- Wisdom for world leaders in ending destruction in Eastern Europe
- Prayers for a mother to carry her baby to term
- A member asks for prayer for her cataract surgery today
- Prayers for a family whose daughter died of an overdose last week
- Answers and healing for a mother undergoing GI tests this week
- Prayers of healing for two families grieving the sudden losses of their children
- Wisdom in dealing w/ widowed mother, depressed & confused
- Comfort for member who lost his sister-in-law on March 18
- Healing of a longtime friend, wisdom for her physicians
- Hope for two young couples deeply desiring children
- Sustaining two beloved women in cancer treatment
- Cherished mother who is enduring harsh chemotherapy
- Beloved brother recovering in the hospital from infection
- Prayers for a position opening for young man
- Courage, strength for mother having extensive cancer scans
By your mercy, O Empowering One, you have forged a road, you have led us to this very day, and you are guiding us home to your kingdom. May our gratitude be as deep as your love for your children who bow to offer this prayer of Jesus:
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.
