Jesu, Jesu, this is our prayer today. Fill us with you love, show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
Fill us with your love as we face the wilderness challenge of being your humble servants. Fill us with your love during Holy Week as we ponder the verse from our Philippians reading, “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.”
Even now, we seek to be of your same mind as we lift up to you people who are on our hearts and minds this day; our family and loved ones, our neighbors, the people on our church’s prayer list, and places all around the world where there is so much pain and brokenness. In humility, we come before you with all of our prayers.
Thank you for being a humble King who not only hears the concerns of our hearts but who also offers gifts of mercy, grace, guidance, comfort, and love to all who are in need.
This is why we wave our palm branches and sing, “Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna!” You are the one who has come to defeat sin and death through your life, death, and resurrection.
And you are also the one who helps us to overcome the wilderness challenges that we often face; the challenges of remembering our true identity, our willingness to trust you, our complacency in being your passionate followers, our need for physical, relational, emotional, and spiritual healing, our ability to stay focused on keeping you first in our lives, and our struggle in being the humble people you have called us to be.
Thank you for reminding us during these 40 days, that you are more than able to help us overcome all of these challenges that we face.
Jesu, Jesu, continue to fill us with your love as we pray the words you 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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