Prayers...

Prayers for the week of April 13, 2014

O Lord God, our Heavenly Father, Who – through the work of Your Son – glorified Your Name - hear our Palm Sunday prayers and look with mercy upon all Your people as we enter this Holy Week that Your Suffering Servant  who came unto Zion “…riding upon a colt, the foal of a donkey ...” and “humbled Himself and became obedient unto death -even death upon a cross”  may be set before Your Church throughout the world as we fix our eyes upon Christ and Him Crucified for us;  Lord, in Your mercy: HEAR OUR PRAYER.
 
Receive our prayers, O Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ Your Son, our Lord,  to whom with You and the Holy Spirit be all honor and glory and power and praise now and forever.   Amen.
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“Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.”  John 12:31
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A Prayer based on the Petitions of the Lord’s Prayer:

“Thy Kingdom Come”
In the Name of the Father and of (+) the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

O Lord, Whose Kingdom comes freely and abundantly, we sinners pray that Your Kingdom may come among us also, even today, as Your Holy Spirit works through Word and Sacrament to bring us Your Kingdom of grace and mercy, so that we would believe Your Word and lead a godly life according to it. To that end, lend your fatherly ear to my petitions:

· For the ill, suffering, injured: O Lord, as Your Son came preaching, “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” so also as part of that message He came healing the sick and raising the dead. Bring comfort to those who contend with illness, to those who suffer, to the injured and the hurting, especially to Phil Sloane, Lou Ellen Hansen, Paul Henk, Richard June, Lisa Rud (daughter-in-law of Joan), Sue Bolerjack (daughter of Ron and Nancy), Susan Ail -Grant to each renewed health or the daily strength needed to bear their burden that they may know that Your Kingdom of temporal care and eternal salvation is even now  among us through the work of your Holy Spirit and your blessed Word and Sacrament.
· For the anxious, lonely: O God, through the work of Your Holy Spirit, who brings to our remembrance all the promises of Christ, we know that the blessings of Your Kingdom – given freely in Your Divine Service to us – is a present comfort, a daily calm in the face of all our cares.  Hear my prayer on behalf of Joe, Rox, and Kerry Hibbs, Beth Williigham & family, and Anne, Vickie, and Dan Ripsom that they would be granted Your peace, which needs not worry about tomorrow, for Thy Kingdom of grace and mercy is among us this day. Grant us all peace for today and tomorrow’s certain hope that Your Holy Spirit will continue to work among us and strengthen and sustain us through Your Word and Sacrament.
· For the mourning: O Lord, Thy Kingdom comes among us each and every day; especially at life’s end, are we thankful  that You have sustained Your saints through Your Spirit’s working in Word and Sacraments, that the faithful might know a blessed end. Hear my prayer on behalf of Val Jones, Joan Rud, Malcolm, And Laurie and Mallory Boulton who mourn the death of a loved one. Comfort them with Your mercy; point them to the future glory that knows in full the joys of the Kingdom that has no end. Grant Val, Joan, Malcolm, Laurie, & Mallory the courage to know that – as they continue on here below, here too Your Holy Spirit will continue to sustain them in Word and Sacrament.
· For the rejoicing: O Lord, with what rejoicing do we welcome and celebrate the coming gifts of Your Kingdom, Your grace and mercy therein, and the many temporal blessings that flow to us because – even today – Your Kingdom comes among us. Hear my prayer of thanksgiving on behalf of those who rejoice.  Give them a thankful heart that confesses Your goodness and desires to continually receive the means by which Your grace and Spirit come – pouring out  the benefits of the cross upon us… those benefits won and purchased for us by the blood and death of Christ, our Lord.

Please bless all widows and widowers of Calvary.

Please bless Calvary's shut ins:
Doris Exner* , Irene Fehrman*, and Geraldine Hagemann*

Please bless those who are temporarily limited in their ability to attend church: JoAnne Maras, Myrtle Stade, and Bruce Morecraft.

Hear my petitions, O Heavenly Father, for the sake of Your Son, who has promised your kingdom to come and, thus, taught us to pray, “Our Father, who art in heaven…”