God of blessings, how is it that you know just when we need a blessing in our lives? Like when we are experiencing grief and you remind us that you are with us through the smile of a young child. Like when we are feeling alone and discouraged, and someone brightens our day with an encouraging word. Like when we are facing a challenging situation in our lives that seem like there are no good choices, and you open a new path and opportunity for us that we never dreamed possible.
For all of these blessings in our lives and those that are to come, we thank you, O God with our hearts, and hands, and voices. What a joy it is for us to come to church on a Sunday morning and give you thanks for the many blessings you provided for us over the past week.
Thank you for reminding us today that with your blessings come an expectation that we will in turn be a blessing to others. Even now, we seeking to be a blessing by lifting up the many people on our church’s prayer list. May they receive your blessings of healing, of assurance, of comfort, of guidance, of wisdom, and of protection.
We also prayer your blessings to be upon each person we encounter this week. May all of our interactions be an opportunity to be a blessing to them. Like Jeremiah reminded us from our Old Testament reading this morning, may our hearts be aligned with your heart in how we relate to the people around us. For all of your countless gifts of love, we thank you all our God with our hearts, our hands, and our voices. We pray this in the name of Jesus who taught us to pray together…
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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