Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family
Week of March 8, 2022
Rev. Jan Buxton Wade
O God of Lengthening Days, we have traveled our own ways for so long that we fear we might not find that singular trail that leads to your redemption. Call out to us once again, we pray, that we might catch sight of you across the way; then we shall move with haste to trace your steps. And on that road of penitence, we will not fail to notice the tracks of your own tears, for you indeed weep at our waywardness. And your tears surely fall more freely during this season, for your beautiful earth is split apart by terror and tribulation. Guide all those besieged by the evil powers of this world, and lift up the fallen through your holy love. Only you, True God from True God, can bring hope out of hopelessness.
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.
We struggle to shape our lifestyle to yours, O River of Holiness, but you are gentle and merciful as we waver time and time again. You pour your gifts of grace and mercy upon us even before we ask; still we whisper our most recent failings in these moments . . . . . . . . . . Wash us anew in your spring rains, reminding us that your baptismal mark is ever upon us. Rinse away the discord and unease that live within us and around us, and receive these spoken prayers of your people at Church Street who wait for your cleansing touch:
- Gratitude: Husband with GI issues much improved
- Celebrating formation of a new Sunday School Class
- Thankful for prayers – Grandson’s emotional problems are eased
- Prayers appreciated – Daughter with shingles much improved
- Gratitude for the work of the United Methodist Women
- Thanksgiving that the Covid trend is turning downward
- Mercy for suffering people of Ukraine – The displaced, the bereaved, the frightened, the wounded, and all in harm’s way
- Easing of a mother’s anxiety as she faces death
- Hope for a young couple deeply desiring children
- For family tensions to dissipate during a memorial service this weekend
- Family, friends, and coworkers of teacher (28) who died suddenly March 7
- Pray for a dear friend whose long-term partner has abandoned him
- Prayers for current Stephen Ministry Leaders and all in training
- Pray for special cousin who is too ill to have his liver transplant
- Courage for daughter and safe delivery of her first child March 11
- Prayers that a plasma transplant will go forward in the coming week
- Church family mourning the loss of two beloved members
- Beloved cousin in treatment for ovarian cancer
- A young professional searching for a position in athletics
- Hope and healing for young friend with metastatic cancer
- Prayers for young grandson at risk
You are the God of endless lovingkindness; therefore, we ask you would link our prayers with the prayers of all around the globe who turn to you in hope:
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.
