Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family
Week of November 13, 2024
Written by Steve Richardson
Praise and thanks to you, God, from whom all blessings flow. Praise and thanks to you for being the source of all our gifts. Praise and thanks to you for your Holy Spirit and for Jesus, whose power uplifts. Alleluia!
With the coolness of mid-November, we’re now getting used to the shorter days and longer nights. We anticipate (some eagerly, some apprehensively) the arrival of Thanksgiving and Advent and Christmas. These days have quickly have moved to the forefront of our minds. Help us know your presence through the season’s traditions, hopes and opportunities of meaningful connections with one another.
Through this collective prayer of our church community, Gracious Lord, we ask for your strength and comforting presence for those who grieve, those who hurt physically or emotionally due to illness or injury, who despair, who have relationships being torn apart, who face financial adversity, who don’t have adequate food or needed medical care, who are vulnerable, who suffer from injustice, who are oppressed. We especially pray for your sacred breakthrough love for all those who have chosen to separate themselves from you, God, our creator and sustainer.
We continue prayers for our nation, state, county, city and neighborhoods. Even though the results of our elections were posted over a week ago, social edginess still lingers. Free us from succumbing to notions that a person’s identity is tied to some sort of political ideology. Instead, help us strive for identities that center on our relationship with you and loving one another. Gracious Lord, through your spirit of love and universal goodness, bind us together in holy wholeness. Make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world.
Your church, including Church Street United Methodist particularly, has such a vital role to fulfill in care and support for people in need. Thank you for Church Street’s leadership that is already doing this in so many ways. Renew our energy and passion to keep carrying out these meaningful ministries, and to inspire fresh ideas and efforts.
And now, God of Peace, hear these needs and prayers of others in our congregation. Embrace all represented here with your loving presence and comfort…
We pray for….
- Safe travels for those on international trip
- A sister who has seizure disorder; prayers for continued improvement
- A member who is having testing at Thompson Cancer Center
- One who is hurting emotionally
- A member who has been diagnosed with metastatic cancer
- Healing of a member who has a GI bleed
- One who has moved to assisted living
- A member recovering from a stroke
- Friends and family members who are going through a difficult time
We continue to pray for….
- A family who experienced the suicide of a 15-year old; prayers especially for his younger sister.
- A member who is facing open heart surgery; prayers for strength, peace, and healing
- A member who is in rehab; prayers for strength as she prepares for cancer treatment
We offer prayers of thanksgiving for…
- A successful knee surgery
- A member who has returned home after a lengthy hospital stay; continued prayers for healing
- A promotion at work
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.
