Lord Jesus, on this hymn sing Sunday, thank you for these hymns of faith that remind us that you are with us during this season of Lent. You are not only with us, but you also give us the strength and courage to face the many wilderness challenges that come our way.
During this 40 day journey, you have been helping us to face the challenges of our identity, our trust, our passion, and now today, the challenge of our need of healing. Just as the Israelites needed healing when they were following Moses through the wilderness to the Promised Land, we also need healing as we follow you through the wilderness that will lead us to Easter Sunday and your glorious resurrection.
Today, we offer to you the areas of our lives that are in need of some kind of healing, whether it be healing for our bodies, our minds, and our souls. We also lift up to you the people on our prayer list as well as others who are on our hearts and minds this day who are in need of your healing. And we especially prayer for the people of Myanmar and Thailand as they continue to recover from the recent earthquake and for our United Methodist Committee on Relief as they provide much needed supplies to those in need.
O God, in this Season of Lent, we thank you for being willing to die on the cross for the sins and the brokenness of the world. Thank you for the cross which reminds us “for God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”
No wonder that our opening hymn was, “Amazing Grace.” Your grace is amazing because it is through your life, death, and resurrection that we receive everlasting life and are made whole. Like the Israelites who lifted the pole in the wilderness so that the people could be healed, we lift high the cross of Jesus which reminds us that that you have defeated the power of sin and death.
It is at your cross that we lay down all of our brokenness and those areas of our lives that are in need of healing. And may we be able to say, “It is well, it is well with my soul.”
It is in your saving and healing name that we now join together in praying this prayer that you taught us to say…
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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