Lord, we give you thanks for this holy season of Lent in which we have been surveying your wondrous cross through word and song. And now today, we are reminded to survey our thirst for more of your living water that leads to life eternal and life in all of its fullness. Help us to be more like the woman at the well from our Gospel reading today who said, “give me more of this water, so that I may never be thirsty.”
We pray this morning for your living water to sustain us as we continue to follow Jesus to the cross and the empty tomb. And we also pray for your living water to sustain the people who are on our church’s prayer list as well as others who are on our hearts and minds this day. Be with all who are thirsty this day, thirsty for hope, health, guidance, peace, goodness, justice, love, comfort, and mercy, and thirsty for more of your presence in their lives.
Just as we need to be reminded again and again to drink plenty of water for our physical health, remind us again and again to drink plenty of your living water for our spiritual well-being. We want to be filled with your spring of water that gushes up to eternal life. Give us more of this water, so that we may never be thirsty again.
And give us your daily bread which also feeds and nourishes us each and every day. We pray this in the name of Jesus who 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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