O Lord, as our prayer hymn says, “we want Jesus to walk with us, all along our pilgrim journey, we want Jesus to walk with us.”
We are your pilgrims on a journey through the wilderness and moving closer and closer to the cross and the empty tomb. Thank you for these 40 days in the Season of Lent to help us be more intentional in spending time with Jesus. And even though this wilderness is out in the middle of nowhere, it offers us the opportunity to face and overcome the many challenges that come our way including today’s challenge in keeping our focus on Jesus.
And today, we give you thanks for sending people our way who remind us to keep our focus on Jesus and who live in such a way that sets aside time with Him. Thank you for our appointment with Jesus this morning in this time of worship and especially on this Sunday as we prepare to come forward to receive the bread the cup. O Lord, we would see Jesus.
As we spend quality time with Jesus this morning, we pray that others would see Jesus as well. We pray for those who are on our hearts and minds this day and whatever challenging situations they may be facing in life. We lift up to you those on our church’s prayer list, that they would see Jesus and receive his guidance, his protection, his mercy, his healing, and his goodness.
Lord, help all of us to walk with Jesus, especially when we are facing trials and and our hearts are almost breaking and when our heads are bowed in sorrow. We want Jesus to walk with us.
Thank you for the good news that we are always welcome to spend time with Jesus. Help us to overcome the challenge of filling our lives with so many distractions that we lose our focus on what is most important in our lives which is you. And maybe that’s why this is a season for us to give up something for Lent. It’s to remind us that even when we are traveling through the wilderness, when Jesus is walking with us, we have everything we need.
We pray this in the name of Jesus who taught us to keep our focus on him by praying this prayer 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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