Pastoral Prayer
November 12, 2023
O God, this truly is our prayer today to serve the present age, our calling to fulfill; O may it all our powers engage to do our Master’s will. Help us to make good choices in living out our faith. When all of the possible choices overwhelm us, lead us to make the best choice, one that would keep you at the center of all of our decision making.
Thank you that you are a God who has our best interests in mind. You desire for each one of us to be the loving, caring, generous, and compassionate people that you call us to be. Help us to always keep you first in all that we say, think, and do.
And we know that one of the important ways for us to keep you first in our lives is by lifting each other in prayer. May your comforting, guiding, redeeming, and healing love be with those who are on our church’s prayer list as well as with others who are on our hearts and minds this day.
On this Veterans’ Day Weekend, we are especially grateful for those who have served and our serving in the armed forces. May their sacrifice on behalf of our country promote peace and justice throughout the world.
We also pray for ourselves especially during these days leading up to Thanksgiving. Keep us ever mindful of your many blessings in our lives and remind us to always offer you our thanks and praise.
And thank you for last week’s Charge Conference in which we were able to make commitments related to a new year of ministry. May the decisions that were made lead us to be even more faithful in our mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
We offer our prayer in the name of Jesus who is the one true Lord, the one true King, and the one true Savior, and who invites us to pray together saying…
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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