Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family
Week of May 2, 2021
Written by Rev. Jan Buxton Wade
You ask us, Lord, to abide in you, and we have pledged to do so. Yours is such an open and gracious invitation, but in our narcissistic society, our hearts are easily tempted to take shelter in unhealthy places, spending hours in ways that do not nourish our spirits. Forgive us, we pray, for focusing on the transient, for settling for second-best, when we could be daily enriched by your goodness. Call us home again, Dear Friend. Brush off the doormat that bids us welcome, and we will enter your abode where we shall be fed with trust and kindness. Make us resolute in soul, we pray, that we might never wander again.
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Source of Sustenance, in our roving, we confess the seeds you have planted in us have returned a meager harvest; but we thank you that you haven’t given up on us. As the Master Gardener, take those dormant kernels, long neglected and dissipated, tend them with your patient hand, and provide an environment of prosperity. We would yield savory and abundant crops for the kingdom in the season of life which we are given. May grace and peace and mercy and forgiveness be the fruits we bear, and may we share them generously in your Name.
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Vine of True Life, this week spring rains have poured forth torrents of your life-giving waters, assuring us of your constant care for all creation. As you replenish and sustain your good earth, replenish us with a spirit of thanksgiving, for our wells are full to overflowing with gifts from your benevolent hand. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, may Jesus Christ be praised!
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.
We are indebted to you, O Divine One, for sending us the Holy Spirit to help us in our yearning, for we truly do not know how to pray. We remain mystified by the suffering and pain that thrive throughout our planet and we long to be part of its healing. Send your soothing Spirit to our brothers and sisters in every region who are oppressed, misunderstood, lonely, hungry, and forgotten; and as each soul is dear to you, receive these particular petitions and thanksgivings offered by your followers at Church Street:
Joys
- One appreciates completion of another round of chemo
- Gratitude: Knee replacement surgery successful
- Member recovering well from heart surgery
- Member celebrates birth of twins: grand-niece & grand-nephew
- Encouraging news of dear friend healing from Covid
- Member celebrates a new living arrangement
- Back surgery is bringing healing for member
- Family thankful for church support during a bereavement
- Gratitude: mother with leukemia much improved
- Thankful: sister has been discharged from rehab facility
Concerns
- Cousin recovering from triple by-pass surgery
- Healing for mother & brother in New Delhi struggling with Covid
- Relief for the people of India suffering from virus
- Lift up member, new resident in assisted living
- Cherished husband, healing of leg injury
- Healing prayers: one undergoing knee surgery May 6
- Encouragement for one in deep depression
- Continued relief for one suffering from asthma
- For brother-in-law’s successful heart surgery May 7
- Steady healing for member with fractured femur
- Patience & healing of painful shoulder injury
- Comfort & safe travels for bereaved member
- Full Covid recovery for single mother of two
- Cherished aging father in assisted living
- New hope for a husband who is discouraged
- Healing for two afflicted with lymphoma
As ones aware of our weakness, yet trusting that you are our strength; as those harboring questions, yet knowing that you hold all answers, we lift up all our prayers to you in the name of Jesus, 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.
