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Prayer of the People, 5 June 2022

June 9, 2022 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

By Your costly grace we have been drawn into your communion — the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Our faith has found a resting place. We rest in you. In you we are restored and refreshed.

In you we have received a new vision for life and godliness.

Yet, we must not close our eyes like Jonah on the boat to Tarshish. You keep inviting us to see with you, and join you in the realities of life. Though we may run from You, You can locate us. Where can we go from your Spirit? Though we close our eyes you can wake us. Though we speak with guile in our hearts you can accomplish your Word.

Oh, Christ Jesus, we gladly surrender ourselves to your sovereignty. Your Spirit keeps pouring His love into us and so in the fierceness of your love and justice we will live. We have set our faces with Jesus towards the cities of your calling and our cross.

Fortify our hearts with your love. Establish the work of our hands Oh Lord. By your Spirit we join in the common struggle of following Jesus and being His people in a world that does not yet welcome your Kingdom.

We lift up to you our friends at the Athens Ministry Centre in Greece. Encourage them as they create a lighthouse of love for people on the journey for refuge.

We lift up to you our friends in the Association of Christian Clubs here at UBC. Deepen the conviction of students for the brilliance of Jesus and grant them courage for trusting you in every good work. Let us enjoy the unity of your Spirit in this community.

We lift up to you our friends in 24-7 Prayer in Vancouver and across Canada. Thank you for those who keep watch in the night and in places overlooked by most of us in order to minister in your name. Supply their need and strengthen them with your love so they may persevere.

Oh Lord we love you and ask you to give us wisdom. We open our lives to you and welcome your Spirit to breathe new life, peace and joy into us. Fill us with your Spirit. Fill us with your Word. Fill us with your songs!

Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one;

for yours is the kingdom,

and the power, and the glory, forever.   
Amen.

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Prayer of the People, 27 Nov 2020

November 30, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father, 

In the space between now and what we are hoping for, we are thankful that you walk with us. In fact you go before us and have prepared a place us, but you are also leading the way for today if we will listen. Teach us Lord and tune our hearts to the whispers of your Spirit. You have given us to your Son Jesus Christ that we might live in the communion of your Kingdom and your fellowship— the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We praise you and rejoice in your promise. But, how long Lord?
Sometimes the quiet is not so quiet because of the anxieties of our souls.
Sometimes the quiet is not so quiet because of the anger in our streets.
Sometimes the quiet is not so quiet because of the alienation on our screens.

For some of us the silence we have been driven towards hurts like shoes that are too tight.
We feel worn. We are missing each other and we are missing a sense of ease.

Oh Lord send your Spirit to us and grant us courage to surrender fully.

Release us from harmful patterns of thinking and feeling and acting that have ensnared us.
Bind up the wounds that irritate and remind us of our shame.
Oh Lord heal us.

We lift up students at universities and colleges as they draw near to the end of this term. Help them, Lord, to study with you. Help them delight in your Creation. Grant them wisdom from above so that their sense of worth and wellbeing does not reside in the marks but in what you think of them. 

We lift up to you our friends at the Athens Ministry Centre in Athens, Greece. Bless them as we enter this season of Advent. Open hearts across the world toward those on the journey for refuge. Fortify your servants sharing their lives and the Gospel with your love and hope and faith. Oh Lord, please move in close to the vulnerable who feel caught in the snare of the wicked; provide them a way out and a way into safety and healing.

Lord we need you. We wait on you. We listen for you. We love you.

(Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer.)

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one;
for yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, 
forever. 
Amen.

This Prayer was part of the first Sunday of Advent Weekend Broadcast on 27 Nov 2020, Origin Church.


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