December 28, 2025
Beulah UMC & Oak Grove UMC
Gracious and loving God, thank you for the many gifts that we have received this Christmas but most importantly for the gift of your Son, Jesus Christ. He is the greatest gift we can ever receive.
And thank you for the extra gifts that are still behind the Christmas tree waiting for us to open this morning, the gifts of compassion, kindness, forgiveness, and love. These are the gifts that you are inviting us to not only open this morning, but to wear every single day to help us live out the good news of our faith in the way that we relate to the people around us.
As we open these extra Christmas presents this morning and try on these new clothes to help us become more like you where we are mindful of the needs of others, we come to you in prayer. We lift up to you the people who are on our church’s prayer list as well as the other loved ones who are on our hearts and minds.
And these extra Christmas presents also lead us to pray for those who we can so easily forget, the homeless, the hungry, the vulnerable, the oppressed, those who are fearful, those who are worried, those who feel alone. We lift up to you all of these needs to you this day, knowing that for many, even the glow of Christmas joy can quickly fade into darkness without the continued love and support of others.
We also pray for our own needs especially as we prepare for a new year and remind us there are always extra Christmas presents for us to open each and every day to help us to be the compassionate, kind, forgiving, and loving people you call us to be. We pray this in the name of Jesus who taught us to pray together saying…
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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