February 22, 2026 (Lent)
Beulah UMC & Oak Grove UMC
O Lord, thank you for this season of Lent in which you are calling on us to lean on your everlasting arms. Help us to remember to lean on you during these 40 days in the wilderness. Help us to lean on you as we face temptations that would keep us from becoming more like you. Help us to lean on you when we are tempted to leave the wilderness and stay in our comfort zones.
And thank you for this season that reminds us that we can lean on each other for strength and encouragement especially when we grow weary during this long season of Lent. Be with us as we learn together what it means to survey our temptations, our faith, our spiritual thirst, our heart, our grief, your wondrous cross, and your empty tomb.
We also pray for people who are on our hearts and minds this morning that they too would lean on your everlasting arms for healing, for comfort, for encouragement, for hope, and for guidance. We pray that they would be safe and secure from all alarms by leaning on your everlasting arms.
During our Season of Lent focus on Isaac Watts’ hymn, “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” we are also mindful of just how important our hymns of faith can help us to grow in our faith. Thank you for composers and musicians who help us to sing our faith and express our deepest longings to you.
We offer this prayer in the name of Jesus who offered us this prayer to help us survey the purpose and mission you have given for us to do in spreading your kingdom of love here on earth. We join now in praying 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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