God of healing and
compassion, thank you for your presence in this place today. Thank you for
people in our lives who have pointed us to you. Thank you for those times where
you have helped us to move beyond simply having a plateaued faith. Grant each
of us a growing faith, an adventurous faith, a risk-taking faith, a sanctifying
faith.
Thank you for blessing us
with a church that is willing to explore new seas and experience new heights in
our faith together. Sometimes you challenge us with a gentle nudge, but there
are also those times when it feels more like a push or a shove. But it’s all
good. You just want us to experience all that you have to offer us in our walk
with you.
On this Martin Luther King
Jr. weekend, help our country to gain greater momentum in promoting civil
rights for all. May our church and our community be a place where all people
are welcomed and the rights of all are protected.
As we near the presidential
inauguration, we pray for our new president, his cabinet and all of those who
will be serving on his team. We also pray for our current president as he
prepares to step down from his eight years of service. Be with our country as
we seek to continue to be a land of liberty and justice for all.
O God, we are so excited
about our upcoming Dedication Sunday and all of the people who will be joining
us on that special day. We continue to pray for our Building Implementation
Team and the contractors and construction workers who are nearing the end of
their work. Bless them in all that they are doing on our behalf.
And finally, O God, we thank
you for the Honor Choir and their gift of music to us this morning. Guide and
direct each of them to be the people you have created them to be, and to
continue to offer their gift of music to be a blessing to others.
In the name of Christ, who
calls us to follow him, and who always promises to be with us every step of the
way, we pray the words that he taught us to say,
“Our Father, who art in
heaven…”
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