January 18, 2026
Beulah UMC & Oak Grove UMC
Lord Jesus, thank you for inviting us to worship this morning. Before we even began to think about coming to church today, it was your grace that was beckoning us to respond to your invitation. Thank you for your grace that goes before us and invites us to go with you, with you, all the way.
This morning, we surrender to you anything in our lives that would keep us from hearing and responding to your call in our lives. Help us to hear your voice above the noise of our TVs and computers, above our worried minds about what the new day may hold, above our own opinions and agendas, above our sorrows, regrets and broken dreams. Help us to hear you calling us to drop our nets and follow you.
Even now, we drop our nets to thank you for your presence in our lives, the offering of your saving grace, and for our many blessings. We drop our nets during this time of prayer to lift up to you the people on our church’s prayer list as well as others who are on our hearts and minds this day. Surround each of these needs with your healing, comforting, guiding, and gracious presence. We drop our nets to lift up to you our own joys and concerns to you. And we drop our nets on this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, to respond to your invitation to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with you.
Thank you for hearing our prayers and for your invitation to pray these words that you taught your disciples and now teach to us…
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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