Lord God heavenly Farther, we stand in awe of You as we lift up our hearts to you in prayer, asking that you would bless us from Zion:
We especially ask Your blessing upon Ray as he celebrates a birthday. Bless him in body and soul all his days. We also ask Your blessing on those who are ill, that You would give them healing according to Your will. We especially ask for Your healing touch upon Bernice who is hospitalized.
Grant that we would always be numbered among those who fear You and esteem Your holy name. Help us by the Holy Spirit to serve You, not looking for reward, but only to do Your will as faithful sons and daughters.
You know that we live in a day when evildoers prosper and the arrogant are called blessed. Keep us from despair and discouragement in the face of injustice. Prosper Your servants who work in government, that the evil would be punished and the good rewarded.
We thank You that You have delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of Your beloved Son by His death and resurrection. Help us to always keep him preeminent in every part of our individual and congregational lives.
Just as we know the destruction of Jerusalem as an accomplished fact of history, help us to know with certainty that there will be a last day and the end of all things and the judgment of mankind. By the power of the Holy Spirit working in our lives through Word and Sacrament, help us to repent of our sins—put our faith in Your Son Jesus—and look forward in hope to being with him in Paradise.
All of these things and whatever else You see that we need—whatever is good for our neighbor and redounds to Your glory—we pray that You would grant to us dear Father in heaven. We ask it in the name of our crucified, resurrected, and ascended King. Amen.
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