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Prayer of the People, 9 April 2021

April 12, 2021 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

Thank you for loving us and bringing us into your communion. You have not abandoned us to our unbelief. You have sent your Son to reveal your love to the world and to rescue us from our sins. Thank you for sending your Spirit to us and for stimulating faith in You when we heard the Gospel of your promises fulfilled. Now our hope is truly in you!

May our worship of you fill out our whole lives with the character of Jesus. May His gentleness and His humility create a reliable strength in your people so your faithful love permeates our fellowship and informs our service to each other and to our communities.

Lord, we are weary from the demands of the pandemic and our responsibilities. For some of us the daily press of decisions and the weight of social unease and absence is taking a toll. Help us Lord. Meet us again. Fortify us with your Spirit and help us persevere.

We lift up to you our brothers and sisters at The Point Church at Simon Fraser University. Thank you for their faithful witness to your love. Thank you for their love for each other and their desire to serve the community well. Encourage them Lord and build them up.

We lift up to you our campus community. Please bring healing and help to those who are facing illness and even home-sickness — as they feel the distance from the familiar and from loved ones. Bless those who are studying and preparing for exams: grant them delight in their studies. Ignite a growing curiosity about your Creation, what you are doing in it, and they can be a part of it with you.

We know we need you Lord and so we pray as Jesus 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 on 9 April 2021

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Prayer of the People, 2 April 2021

April 6, 2021 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

In a year in which so many have felt alone in their losses and griefs we call out to you with the faith formed in the testimony of Easter. Christ is Risen!  

We ask that you would pour your love into us again through your Spirit so we may have hope. Remind us of Jesus’ victory over death and His victory over the alienation of the cross so we may rejoice in your salvation again. 

Praise the Lord. We praise you for this wonderful grace in which we stand.
Praise the Father, Son and Holy Spirit! We praise You — for all blessings flow from You.

Your triumph is our humble plea. 
Your songs are our resistance to despair.
Your communion is our circle of comfort.

Heal us Lord. Heal us of spiritual dullness.
Heal us of spiritual inertia.
Fill us — that we might love our neighbours boldly.
Fill us — that we might speak your Gospel boldly.

Grant to us the holy initiative that rises up in all your servants who say YES to You.

We lift up the dear people of Myanmar. Please bring a true peace to this land. Empower your church to witness through service and through winsome speech to the promises of your Kingdom. Oh Lord preserve lives from the evil one and grant the wisdom of restraint to those who govern and to those who have taken up arms. Comfort many who have lost loved ones in the violence. Comfort them and call them back from the trap created by vengeance. We ask for your intervention and plead that the life of our Resurrected Lord, Jesus Christ would bring healing to many.

We lift up our congregation and pray that you would show us how to keep the fire of love and devotion hot. May our love for you not grow cold. May our service to you and our neighbours be refreshing. We know we need you 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.

This prayer was part of the Origin Church Weekend Broadcast on 2 April 2021.

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Prayer of the People, 26 March 2021

March 29, 2021 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

You have set eternity into the heart of every person. It seems like we are but a blip in time as we live together on the planet but may the reality of You, the everlasting Triune God, draw us ever closer and into your genuine love and joy.

Thank you for the grace of knowing you. Jesus set His face toward the City of Jerusalem knowing full well, the cross that awaited Him. But He set His heart toward You, knowing the joy that awaited His friends. We are His friends if we obey His Word.

You have invited us to come. And Lord, your words are not a burden. But we confess that apart from your Spirit we have no power on our own to create eternal fruit. So we come, Lord Jesus, we come.

When we set our hands and our minds to work may our hearts continue to abide with Your Spirit. When we suspend what we want in the moment in order to serve another may Your songs fill our heart. When we resist the evil one may Your love fill our spirits.

Father we cry out to you on behalf of people hoping, searching for a life with more security, peace, and opportunity. Many are fleeing heartache and oppressive violence and abuse. Yet, they are confounded by borders and those tending them. Oh Lord we know you see. But we do not always want to see desperation. Awaken in us the compassion of Jesus and move us according to your ways to be present with the poor as friends.

We cry Hosanna — help us Lord. Blessed be your name!

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 on 26 March 2021.

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Prayer of the People, 19 March 2021

March 22, 2021 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

You are Lord of lords and King of kings. No one in all Creation can thwart your plans and purposes. Whether we feel stuck in the past or insecure about the future, you are one who remains the same. You have been our refuge and you will be our refuge. Today, we abide in you and entrust our lives to you.

You have welcomed us through the life of Jesus Christ and the gracious gift of the Spirit into this grace in which we stand. Now we pray that your grace would work powerfully among us. 

Protect us from the evil one.
Forgive our hidden faults.
And let not wilful sin rule over us.

Revive us Lord! Transform us by your Word and empower us by your Spirit that we might maintain the peculiar distinctives of holiness into which you have called us. Fill us with wisdom that we might yet remain warm and present to each other in this anxious world. 

We lift up to you the people of Syria who have suffered dehumanizing atrocities and hate in the last ten years. We plead with you for peace and for the transformation of even on person who has become hard-hearted. Violence stalks its victims through the dark places and even in broad daylight in order to traumatize them. The neighbours are weary and compassion for the refugee has grown cold. Help us Lord. How long Lord? Fortify your church to be lovingly present and to boldly confess your good news to poor and to the powerful.

We lift up to you our campus community and pray that every ministry and church would thrive according to your call. We reside in a place of many words, many plans, and many hopeful masters of their own destinies; pride has cast its spell. So Come Lord Jesus, Come and set the captives free.

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 of the people was part of the Origin Church Weekend Broadcast on 19 March 2021.

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Prayer of the People, 12 March 2021

March 15, 2021 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

Thank you for giving us the grace of faith. We know we do not live by sight but by faith. You have rescued us from lies and delivered us into your Truth. Thank you for the delight that has overcome our fears so can reside in your communion — the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

When we see Jesus in the Gospels we are getting to look into what angels had longed to see and your prophets foretold. Oh Lord grant us the grace of living full into this mystery revealed! Christ in us — the hope of glory.

Come Holy Spirit Come.

Too often our days do not seem all that glorious. So Lord, 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 and our neighbours.

Grant us the courage required to be curious about people and inquisitive without judgment. May truth flow from our faces, our speech, and our actions because you are close. May we boldly proclaim your victory over death and offer your invitation to life through faith in Jesus.

Oh Lord grant us perseverance as a church to continue holding space for each other in service and in care. Give us wisdom to plan for the future restart of in-person ministry in the UBC campus community and across our city. May Jesus be lifted up among 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 on 12 March 2021.

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