Week of October 8, 2025
Pastor Sam Dzobo
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Holding On to God’s Faithfulness
God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out. His merciful love couldn’t have dried up.
They are created new every morning; how great is your faithfulness! I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over). He’s all I’ve got left. God proves to be good to the one who passionately waits, to the one who diligently seeks. It’s a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God.(Lamentations 3:22–26) – The Message
Gracious and faithful God,
We come before you as your people, wounded, weary, and wondering.
Yet still trusting in your steadfast love that never ceases.
You have been faithful through every generation of this Church Street family.
And even when tears have fallen, when words have cut deep,
When our hearts are clouded,
You remain the same, steadfast in mercy and slow to anger.
Lord, we confess that in our fear and frustration,
We have sometimes spoken more from pain than from grace.
We have sometimes listened less to you and more to our own hurt.
Forgive us, O God, when our pride has hardened the path toward healing.
Renew us, Lord, by your Spirit.
Where mistrust has grown, plant truth.
Where division has manifested, build bridges of reconciliation.
Where grief has lingered, speak comfort and peace.
Teach us again what it means to love one another,
As Christ has loved us: honestly, sacrificially, humbly.
Thank you, Lord, for your presence among us,
For the grieving who are comforted,
For the hungry fed by faithful hands at Magnolia,
For weddings that celebrate new beginnings,
For your Word still proclaimed from the pulpit and sung in these pews.
Even in our brokenness, you are at work,
And for that, we give you praise.
Remind us today that your mercies are new every morning.
Help us to stick with you, God, again and again,
Because you are all we truly have left,
And you are all we need.
Give our pastors, staff, and leaders courage to lead with grace.
Give our congregation patience to wait quietly and hope deeply.
Give us hearts that seek you more than we seek to be right.
Make our tears a prayer,
Our questions a journey toward truth,
And our worship a testimony that even in the storm,
You are good, and your love endures forever.
We hold fast to your promise:
Your loyal love will not run out.
Your mercies will not dry up.
Great is your faithfulness, O Lord.
Make us one in your Spirit, one in your mission,
And one in your love, through Jesus Christ our Savior.
We pray for ….
- A close friend who is also a priest was diagnosed with inoperable stage 4 cancer of the liver. Prayers for his family and peace for him.
- A faithful friend and her husband who was diagnosed today with brain cancer.
- A young woman dealing with struggles with mental health.
- Dear friends who have been having many challenges …. Four-year-old diagnosed with leukemia; another couple whose father died. May these friends be surrounded in prayer.
- A husband going through cancer treatments for pancreatic cancer.
- A son who had invasive surgery this morning removing tumor; prayers for healing in the coming weeks.
- A caregiver making difficult decisions.
- A mother having defibrillator this week.
- Our youth who have been through so much; prayers that they know they are loved and cared for.
We give thanks for ….
- The news that we are going to be great-grandparents!
- A member whose cancer is in remission. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
- Safe travels during Fall Break
And now, with one voice, we pray the prayer our Lord taught us:
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.
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