Saturday, March 21, 2015

Lent 4b General Prayer



Gracious heavenly Father, we come to You in prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, trusting that You will hear and answer us for His sake:

We give You thanks and praise that You are the God who delivers and saves.  You have redeemed us from slavery to sin and death and set our feet on the way to the Promised Land of heaven by the lifting up of Your Son Jesus on the cross. 

Forgive us when we become impatient along the way and grumble and complain about Your provision.  Open our eyes to all of the blessings You have given us that has brought us this far on our journey.  Especially do we give You thanks for the gift of life granted to Adrian as he celebrates a birthday to Allan as he celebrates his 85th birthday.  Continue to grant them every good gift of body and soul.

Renew in us a love for the means of grace in Word and Sacrament that You have used to call us from death to life.  Grant that Your Word would always be faithfully preached and taught in every level of our church and school and the sacraments administered according to Christ’s institution.  Especially do we ask Your blessing upon all those who teach and learn in our school.

Because we know that all people are, by nature, children of wrath, empower the mission of Christ in this place so that we would courageously bear witness to those who do not know You that they might come to faith in Jesus and be saved.

Help us to live our lives in such a way that it would be clearly seen that our deeds are carried out in Your strength and by the guiding of Your Spirit and that we are gladly doing the good works You prepared for us to accomplish.

Heavenly Father, in the midst of a wilderness You abundantly provided for the needs of Your people, giving them food to eat and water to drink.  So in the same way graciously and generously provided for all our bodily needs.  Help, direct and encourage those who are seeking work, especially Jonathon.  Be with, bless and heal according to Your wise fatherly will all who are ill, especially Rick, Billie, Sallie, Sarah, Brittany, Pat and Sandra.  Sustain the faith of those for whom death draws near, especially Hollis.  We ask that you would be with the Logback family as they mourn Ron’s passing and as others in that family deal with illness and family struggles.  Assure them that You are with them and will help them.

Whatever else You see that we need; whatever serves our neighbor and brings glory to You and extends the kingdom of Your Son, grant to us dear Father in heaven for we ask in Jesus’ name.  Amen.

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