God of mercy and grace, like the hymn writer, Robert Robinson expresses in our prayer hymn this morning, we confess how prone we are to wander in being the people you have called us to be.
Tune our hearts to sing thy grace. Tune our hearts to become more and more like you. Tune our hearts to not react impulsively in any given situation but to react with the confident and calm assurance that you are in control. Tune our hearts to see others as you see them, as your blessed, beloved, and beautiful children of God. Tune our hearts every single day because as you know, we are prone to wander from You.
Thank you for this weekly time of prayer where you invite us to tune our hearts and lift up to you those who are in need of your healing, your comforting, your guiding, and your forgiving love. Today, we especially pray for anyone who is burdened down with the consequences of their sin and the heaviness of past regrets. May your goodness like a fetter bind our wandering hearts to thee.
And lead us to share the good news of your goodness with those around us. May each of our lives be reflections of your streams of mercy that are never ceasing so that all may know of your redeeming love.
Take our hearts, our hearts that are sometimes broken, our hearts that are sometimes grieving, our hearts that are sometimes stained by sin, and our hearts that are sometimes feeling empty, take our hearts even in theses moment and seal them for thy courts above.
We pray this in the name of Jesus who is more than able to forgive, to redeem, and to transform us, and 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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