Loving God, as our hymn says, we offer to you our endless prayer so that your kingdom may be spread from shore to shore. We especially pray for our community and world where there is so much brokenness, pain and suffering. Thank you for pouring out your love through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.
May the same power that enabled Jesus to ascend to your heavenly throne also empower our church to be poured out in sacrificial and loving ways.
Pour us out by loving others unconditionally. Pour us out by welcoming those who feel excluded. Pour us out by offering words of encouragement. Pour us out by helping us to be good listeners so that people feel heard and valued. Pour us out as we live out our membership vows in offering our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness. Pour us out by caring for the needy, visiting the lonely, and feeding the hungry.
We also lift up to you the people on our church’s prayer list and those prayers needs that are on our hearts and minds this day.
Thank you for the people in our lives who have poured out your love and have blessed us. On this Mothers’ Day, we give you thanks for our mothers who have given us life and love.
We pray for mothers who have lost a child through death, that their faith may give them hope.
We pray for women, though without children of their own, who like mothers have nurtured and cared for us.
We pray for mothers, who have been unable to be a source of strength, who have not responded to their children and have not sustained their families.
Loving God, as a mother gives life and nourishment to her children, so you watch over each and every one of us.
On this Ascension Sunday, we offer our eternal prayer that your kingdom will continue to be spread from shore to shore and that your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We pray this in the name of our Ascended Lord 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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