Tag Archive: Fruit of the Spirit

Prayer of the People, 20 Nov 2020

November 23, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father, 

We praise you Father for you have loved us with a strong and faithful love. You have dealt with us gently and have sent your Son to us. He arrives and says to you, “I have come to do your will.” Your will is that none would perish, so He gave Himself once and for all that we might be free of our sins and the destructive reign of the evil one. Oh Lord! — Thank you for delivering us into your communion — the communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

Apart from you we can do nothing. May your Spirit keep calling us into deeper communion with you. We confess Lord — we are easily distracted. The opinions of others are forming how we think and feel. Our airwaves ripple with anxiety and unbelief. Our sight lines are filled with shallow comforts and dissatisfaction. So Lord we need your Word to penetrate deep into our lives and bear the fruit that you intend. 

May your love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control abound in our lives and shape our relationships with you, ourselves, with others, and with the stuff of earth. Your priestly work has made us acceptable to you so we hold out the word of life to this generation. As your kingdom of priests we intercede with you for this generation.

Oh Lord, comfort those who grieve.
Oh Lord, show your tender mercy to those who doubt.
Oh Lord, shine your light on those who are lost.

Bring a just peace to the unrestful regions of Ethiopia, Armenia, Mozambique, and Peru.
Bring help to the storm weary regions of Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Philippines.
Bring neighbourly wisdom and generosity to communities battling the Covid-19 virus. 

Praise be to Jesus our Saviour. There is no other name in heaven or on earth by which we may be saved. Hallelujah to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  As we gather together as sisters and brothers called by Him to His table, we pray as He teaches us:

(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 Origin Church Weekend Broadcast, 20 Nov 2020.

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Prayer of the People, 5 June 2020

June 8, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

We humble ourselves before you. There is no one righteous. No not one. You are proved right when you judge. Jesus, born, crucified, and buried, has been raised to life as judge of both the living and the dead. We stand before Him and declare, He is Lord.

In Him you have mercied us. In Him you have forgiven us. In Him you have graced us with your Presence. Thank you for delivering us from the kingdom of darkness and securing us in the Kingdom of Your Son. We have crossed over from death to life. We enjoy now and for eternity your communion — the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Yet, we live and breath in a broken world. Our systems reek of death. We can’t get it right. We are drawn to call evil good and to dispose of what is true. We hate our brothers and sisters. Oh Lord help us.

Oh Lord help us. Our thoughts and feelings conform to Babylon and all her empires. We strive for power. But may our strivings cease for we know in Christ there is the victory. 

Oh Lord help us. Your Spirit seeks to shape us into the image of Christ, but we are reluctant to be so humble. Why do we resist the way that would release the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control of Jesus into our lives and into our relationships?

Oh Lord. Help us.

We lift up our brothers and sisters in Christ and their neighbours — we seek your intervention. Empower your church to love others with real presence, the proclamation of the Gospel and in  refreshing works of service in Hong Kong, in New York, in Minneapolis, in Toronto, in Sanaa, in Mbandaka, in Sao Paula, and in Vancouver.

Oh Lord Help us. We need you.

And so we pray as you taught us. (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.

The Prayer of the People from the Origin Weekend Broadcast on 5 June 2020.

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