Pastoral Prayer (September 10) - Beulah UMC & Oak Grove UMC

September 10, 2023

This is a time for us to share any prayer needs including joys and concerns as well as any updates to our prayer list.

 

Lord Jesus, thank you for your presence with us today. You said that if two or three are gathered in your name, you will be there in our midst. Thank you for coming by here this morning to remind us that we are your people and we belong to you. 

 

Thank you for coming by here so that we can experience peace which passes all understanding. Thank you for coming by here to strengthen us for any challenges that we may be facing in our lives. Thank you for coming by here to hear our joys and concerns that we lift up to you, knowing that you are more than able to surround each and every prayer need with your healing presence. 

 

Thank you for coming by here to offer us forgiveness for the intentional and unintentional ways that we have failed to be your disciples this past week. What a joy it is for us to hear those words, “In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.” Thank you for coming by here where we can grow in what it means to have healthy, honest, and loving relationships within our church family, with our families at home, with friends, and with the people we see throughout the week.

 

Even as we sing, “Kum Ba Yah,” we also know that you were already present with us when we woke up this morning. As thy hymn writer says so beautifully, “Today, I awake and God is before me, At night as I dreamt, God summoned the day; For God never sleeps but patterns the morning with slithers of gold or glory in grey.”

 

And so, we thank you for your presence especially during those times when we are not aware of it. Even now, we hear your invitation to each one of us to pray the words you taught us to say 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.