Eternal God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we are grateful to be able to share our prayer needs with you this day. We know you hear our prayers to you during the week, but there’s just something very special about being able to pray together here in church.
Whenever we are together in this place, we are reminded that we are your children and we’re all on the same team. There is no we and they. It’s only us. Thank you that we are teammates always growing in what it means to be your faithful disciples.
And so, as your children, hear our prayers on behalf of those who are on our church’s prayer list. Grant to them your healing, your guidance, your grace, and most importantly your love in whatever they may be facing.
On this Memorial Day weekend, we also pause to remember and give thanks for those who have served in the armed forces and who are no longer with us. May their sacrifice for the sake of freedom and justice throughout the world not be forgotten. This weekend reminds us to pray even more fervently for there to be peace on earth.
And today, we also give thanks that you are one God, known in three persons. May these words from hymn writer and poet, Carl Daw Jr., be our prayer today and throughout this week: “Triune God, mysterious being, undivided and diverse, deeper than our minds can fathom, greater than our creeds rehearse; help us in our varied callings your full image to proclaim, that our ministries uniting may give glory to your name.”
And now as teammates and children of the Triune God, let us pray the words that Jesus 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.
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