O Lord, we join today’s psalmist in having a singing faith, a faith that praises you and gives you thanks for our many blessings, a singing faith that reminds us that we are on a journey to Zion, the beautiful city of God. To you be all praise and glory!
Thank you for giving us a song to sing especially when we are feeling discouraged. Thank you for giving us a song to sing when our own prayers seem so inadequate to express what is deepest in our hearts and minds. Thank you for giving us a song to sing when the journey feels like there is no end in sight. Thank you for giving us a song to sing.
And remind us that as we sing our songs of faith that we remember there are others along the journey with us, those here in church today, those who are on our church’s prayer list and in need of healing and comfort, and those who are in need of your guidance and strength. Thank you for giving each of these persons a song to sing as we all journey together.
Today, we are especially thankful for hymn writers like Charles Wesley, Fanny Crosby, Isaac Watts, John Newton, and William Cowper and so many more who offered us the lyrics and the poetry to beautifully express what might otherwise remain unspoken. Thank you for always giving us a song to sing.
And as John Wesley reminds us, grant us a renewed appreciation to not allow even a slight degree of weakness or weariness to hinder us and to always have an eye to you whenever we sing.
As our prayer hymn will soon remind us, “let all who name Christ’s holy name give God all praise and glory.”
And now lead us in praying these words that Jesus 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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