Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family
Week of May 16, 2021
Written by Rev. Jan Buxton Wade
Let us sing a glad song of gratitude to our God who has given us life and has imbued us with power to change the world. How amazing is that grace! The Holy One believes in us! We now bow in the silence and reflect upon the ways we have felt his sacred movement in our lives in recent times . . . . . . . . . . Take us by the hand each day of this week, Lord, and lead us in those paths you have prepared for us; and may we recognize your empowering Spirit along the way.
Gracious God, receive our prayer.
“Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord,” sang the psalmist. We do come in your name this evening, Our Forever Companion, knowing you see us as we are, and that we are cherished in your sight. We remember the gentleness with which you steered us through this past year’s turmoil and dissension. In our doubts, fears, and grief, you were working silently to restore our hope.
Gracious God, receive our prayer.
Yes, we are indeed richly blessed and we praise the God from whom all blessings flow. Receive now, we pray, these specific expressions of gratitude brought by your people at Church Street; and also shine your light of gentle grace upon those who render their deep personal concerns:
Joys
- Family celebrates new grandbaby, born May 14
- Thanksgiving for visit with first grandchild
- Grateful for prayers: heart procedure successful
- One celebrating success of risky back surgery
- Thankful for more in-person church gatherings
- Prayers appreciated: member released from hospital
- Member offers thanks for her steady recovery from a stroke
- Gratitude: multiple mission projects completed on Sat
- A friend’s successful knee replacement on the 17th
Concerns
- Healing for young pregnant cousin very ill with Covid
- Relief for one suffering great hip & leg pain
- Group seeking earnest discernment
- Calm and peace for one facing extensive surgery
- Beloved brother suffering from cancer
- Healing of friend in CO in rehab center
- Recovery for extremely ill husband in hospital
- Continued healing for husband in rehab facility
- Vaccine availability for India overwhelmed by virus
- Sustaining dear grandson in treatment for lymphoma
- Continued improvement: husband with rare cancer
- That two in deep depression may be delivered from their pain
- Healing for grieving families & pained members of the Austin-East community who seek change
- Healing for member with lymphoma
- Sustaining grace for member struggling with anemia
- Grace & comfort for husband in hospice care at home
- Continued recovery for one in therapy for injured leg
- Prayers that shoulder injury will not require surgery
- Easing of painful knee injury
Gracious God, receive our prayer.
We confess, Patient One, that the magnet of our daily affairs has pulled us away from our best intentions. Especially our weakness was most pronounced in these instances which we remember with regret: . . . . . . . . . . Buttress us, that we might withstand the tug of the world and remain steady in our purpose to live out the promises we make in Christ’s name.
And as you feed us your food of compassion each and every day, you are showing us how to open our hands to share healing with those whose lives are broken, to offer hope to the desperate, to deliver companionship to the lonely, to proclaim your good news. All these efforts we dedicate to you in Christ’s name, our Teacher and Example who taught us to pray in this way:
