Tag Archive: Prayer of the People

Prayer of the People, 22 May 2020

May 25, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father, We thank you for the grace in which we now stand. You have created a cathedral in Creation and your glory fills it all. There is no corner of creation that is hidden from you, nothing escapes your view. However, we would have missed you in the fog of our unbelief. 

Graciously, Father, Jesus ushered us into your communion — the very communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and our faith continues to grasp just a bit of your greatness and your glory. We want to thank you for making yourself known to us. 

Father, we truly delight in your Word and we pray that your Word would accomplish in us all that you intend. We pray that we will not frustrate or make empty your Word. And we pray that we will not take your Name in vain. We are always cautious to say “this or that is of the Lord or from the Lord,” but we need to hear your voice. So please help us hear Your voice. For your word says that “My sheep know my voice, and a stranger’s voice, they will not follow”. 

Oh Lord, is there a famine of your Word in our hearts and in our relationships? As officials clamour to restart the economy, where is justice for the poor and for those workers closest to the ground? What adjustments have we made to address the vulnerabilities revealed in this pandemic? What idols still need to be released from our hearts and hands? We lift them all up to you, Oh Lord. 

Father, we are in a rush to start our economies again. The airwaves and our screens are full of those who would bend us for their own ends. Help us dear Lord Jesus! Our citizenship rests in you and in your Kingdom. For the scripture affirms that You have translated us from the Kingdom of darkness and have made us citizens of the Kingdom of your own dear Son. Somehow Lord — You know how — we need our worship of you to align our affections with what matters most. We pray that you would Grant us the obedience that comes from faith. 

Come Lord Jesus. We need to know the truth about us and about you. We need your Spirit to heal and fill us with life. We lift up to you our friends and family who are rocked by loss, feeling stranded in loneliness, or are unsure of what to do next. We set them before you.We pray that you will be a Living Water to them — refreshing them, healing them, and empowering them — for life in your abundant grace. 

We lift up to you the peoples of India and Bangladesh suffering from the effects of Cyclone Amphan. Help neighbours care and to meet needs. We cast our eyes around the globe in our common fight against the coronavirus pandemic: so we lift up to you Peru, South Africa, Mexico, the Navajo Nation in the US and indigenous communities in Canada — We pray that you would comfort and heal, protect and make yourself known O Lord. 

We seek you and so we pray as Jesus 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. 

Prepared by Ransford Buah and Craig O’Brien

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Prayer of the People, 8 May 2020

May 11, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

Your communion is filled with joy — there’s joy produced in relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Thank you for sharing your life with us and delivering us into your Kingdom. Even now we know we have had a taste of your joy.

We open our hearts to you. Fill us with your Spirit. May joy in our fellowship be a sign of your abundant love and the sure promise of our faith secured by Jesus Christ. Oh that your joy would spring up in every obedient and faithful act of worship provoked by faith in your name.

May your joy in us create a rebellion against hopelessness, despair, and apathy. These weigh us down Lord, creating spiritual inertia that resists love. Forgive us Lord. We don’t know how to appreciate your presence in creation, in each other, in the poor, in the merciful, and in the meek. Renew our spirits and create in us a clean heart.

Father, you have provided us with food and shelter. You have lifted our heads with words of  encouragement and compassion. You have helped us persevere through our struggles. 

Thank you for this grace.

We lift up to you those in our congregation who
long for friendship
cry for comfort
pray for purpose and 
ask for provision.

Meet them Lord. Fulfill your Word in their lives for the glory of your name.

We lift up to you those in our city who
need a safe space,
are pressed down by anxiety, or
are trapped by addiction.

Oh Lord, deliver them by the power of your Spirit and bring them into the joy of your fellowship.

Lord we lift up to you these cities and the people who reside in them. Grant them the joy of your salvation and please raise up men and women overflowing with stories of your redemption in Oman, Alexandria, Oslo, Bangkok, Tehran, Brasilia, and Ottawa. Establish your church and the good work of their hands.

Jesus you are above all. In joyful adoration we bend the knee and call you Lord. We pray today 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.

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Prayer of the People, 1 May 2020

May 5, 2020 0 Comments

Here’s the Prayer of the People from the Origin Weekend Broadcast for 1 May 2020.

Heavenly Father,

Thank you for bringing us into your communion — the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This costly grace formed in the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus has granted us the faith in which we stand and has changed our lives forever. Thank you!

In Christ Jesus you have radically altered our past, present, and future.
You have forgiven us of our sins.
You have wiped the slate clean.
You have loved us.
You have brought us out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of Your Son.
You have given us a new heart.
You have filled us with your Spirit.

You are making us new.
You are renewing our minds.
You are transforming our attitudes and actions.
You are giving us new desires.
You are fulfilling your word.
You are pouring your love into our lives.

You will cause every promise in Christ to be a Yes.
You will return to set all things right.
You will redeem our lives.
You will be praised forever!

Oh Spirit, Come— Gather the Church of Jesus into praise and into intercession with you.

We long for every tear to be tenderly wiped from our faces.
We long for our faith to be sight. But even now Lord fortify us with the disciplines and rhythms that tap deeply into your life and your Word.

Oh Lord, we set before you peoples who feel forgotten and crushed in this coronavirus pandemic. We plead with you for healing across the whole planet. We seek You for peace in homes and the transformation of relationships fractured by neglect or even violence. We pray that the love of Jesus would abound so that our neighbours experience love and not accusation and hate because of race.

We seek You & your Kingdom so we pray as Jesus 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

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Prayer of the People — 24 April 2020

April 27, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

Thank you for giving us the grace of faith. We know we do not live by sight but by faith. Yet, you have given us the eyes of faith to recognize you in the Gospel and in the world around us. Thank you for the delight of residing in your communion — the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

In seeing Jesus in the Gospel we are getting to look into what angles had longed to see. Oh Lord grant us the grace of living full into this mystery revealed! Christ in us — the hope of glory.

Too often Lord our days do not seem all that glorious. Help us love you with all our minds, all our hearts, and all our strength in the course of our daily rhythms: making meals, washing dishes, cleaning spaces, folding laundry, taking up our work, setting our work down, and loving the people closest to us.

Grant us the courage and wisdom required to be curious about people and inquisitive without judgment. May kindness flow from our faces, our speech, and our actions because you are close.

Oh Lord we grieve with the people of Nova Scotia who are reeling from the violence and hate that has visited them. Protect them Lord from the evil one. In the name of Jesus bind up their wounded hearts and cast out the seeds of suspicion and bitterness that have been sown. 

Lord we ask for grace to help those who are suffering through the coronavirus pandemic. Every loss requires its own grace. But Lord, so many around the world are in danger of disease and famine. We retreat from the castles of our greed and ask that you would show us how to love our neighbours well and to support those serving the least of these. But even here in our city and around our campuses people are being oppressed by loneliness and depression. Instruct us in the word that will lift them up.

We are among those who cry out — we would see Jesus.
Oh Lord, we would see Jesus lifted up in His church.

So we pray as He 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 for 24 April 2020 was used the in the Origin Church Weekend Broadcast. If you would like information or encouragement for hosting a House Church during the Coronavirus Pandemic please reach out to me.

You Must Be Born Again ~ Life Journey With Jesus – Origin Online – 24 April 2020

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Prayer of the People, Easter Weekend

April 16, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the fulfillment of all that was required for our fellowship with you in your communion: the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus you have triumphed over the grave. Death has no dominion over you or your church!

We thank you for the speaking word that woke us up to you — for in the moment when you said to us “Let there be light” our lives were changed. Your creative power has brought us hope when we were hopeless, faith when we were stuck in doubt, and love when we were sure we had nothing else to give. Thank you for the Cross and your deep compassion for us. Our deliverance and our righteousness comes only from you.

Lord, we lift up to you people we know who are struggling with the changes brought to their living rooms and their hearts by this pandemic: feeling isolated and lonely, or feeling impatient with the people living with them; worried about finances, unsure of what to do next for work, grieving the loss of a loved one, or worn out by the new effort required by their work. Give us grace Lord. Have mercy on us Oh Lord.

Lord, we lift up to you students pressing in for exams. We lift up to you teachers sorting out how to cause learning. We lift up to you students who worry that their futures may be on hold for a long time. We ask you to meet them. In this season help us all see the beauty and glory of Jesus that we might entrust all our worries for tomorrow in His hands.

We entrust our lives to you and so we expect that we will have courage to love as you love. And so we pray as Jesus 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.

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