Eternal God, our Father, we come before you once more in prayer. We read from the Scriptures that you are from everlasting to everlasting - our lives are as brief as only a part of the day, like a drop of water beside the vastness of the ocean - like a grain of sand on the beach. Yet you have made us to love Thee and to love one another. And you have assured us of your love in the matchless life and words and deeds of Jesus. Help us, we pray, to hold on to this faith in you and in ourselves amid the cynicism of the world, and to believe amid sufferings, disappointments, and failures, that all things work together for good to those who love God.
We are thankful for our own warm house, and warm bodies. Today in your presence remind us that we can live in a warm house and be cold toward each other; our bodies can be warm while our hearts are cold with fear and unconcern. We know that we should care about warm houses and warm bodies. We know that food and clothing and health are important. But help us to know that there is nothing more important than our entrance into the Kingdom of God, your Kingdom of love and peace, where all other things become ours as well.....where we discover what life is all about, and we begin to understand the meaning of our existence.
So, Our Father, may this be the hour of new birth for us, without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. May this be the time of forgiveness of our sins and healing for our illness. And if there are those who are beset by nameless fears and anxiety we do not understand, may this be the time when we learn that you will keep them in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because they trusts in you. And if we are filled with fear for the future, may this be the moment when we believe the promise, "in all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct Thy paths."
These spoken prayers, and all that are unspoken among these your people, we offer in the name of Jesus. Amen
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