Prayers...

Prayers for the week of  January 11, 2014

Heavenly Father, in the Baptism of Your only-begotten Son, Jesus, You made known the Christ—the Anointed One—to humanity and publicly marked Him as the One Who would bear the sins of all people.  We ask You to receive our thanks for the redemption You have achieved for us through Him. Lord, in Your mercy:  Hear our prayer.

Into Your hands we commend all for whom we pray, trusting in Your mercy, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
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 “And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”  Mark 1:11
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A Prayer based on the Petitions of the Lord’s Prayer

“Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

O Lord, Your will is done even without our prayers, as Your Holy Spirit breaks and hinders all the efforts and plans of the Evil Foe. But, as we depend upon Your grace and desire Your will to be done among us also,  so we are to pray, as You have taught us. To that end, lend your fatherly ear to my petitions:

* For the ill, suffering, injured: O Lord, Your will is done in every hour of life. Hear my prayer for those who are ill, suffering, or injured, especially   Norm Bunge*, Connie Block*, Wally Bartels*, Debbie Taylor, Sue Ail and the Knoepfel* family: who are ill or contending with infirmity that they may dwell secure in awaiting your temporal deliverance or – if it be Your will – be given strength to bear their current affliction. Strengthen Norm, Connie, Wally, Debbie, and the Kboefels. and  and keep them steadfast in Your Word until Your final deliverance, according to Your good and gracious will.
* For the anxious, lonely: O God, just as in heaven, so also on earth, Your will is perfect… and it is always accomplished for our benefit.  Hear my prayer on behalf of all unbelievers in my family that they would be granted a patience that knows that it is Your will to hear our prayer in the day of trouble and deliver us, so that all things work together for the good of those who love You, those whom You have called according to Your purpose.
* For the mourning: O Lord, our ways are not always Your ways; Your will is beyond our understanding and will. Hear my prayer on behalf of all who mourn the death of a loved ones. Comfort them with the promise that Your will is always good, that You have no desire to see the death of the wicked, and that – in accord with Your will – you bring home those whom You have called to be Your own. Grant the faith which clings to the Truth that You willed to freely give up Your own Son in death, that death may not have victory over us.
* For the rejoicing: O Lord, Your good and gracious will gives us much reason to rejoice, as it breaks and hinders the plans of the devil and showers us with temporal and eternal blessings. Hear my prayer of thanksgiving on behalf of all who have occasion to rejoice and give them thankful hearts that – in all things – gives praise to You for Your holy will and desires to be kept steadfast in the True Faith, as You will for all Your children.
• Please bless Calvary shut-ins shutins Myrtle Stade, Fern Waddle, Dorothy Bratton*, Bruce Morecraft
And Alice Breneman and bless all Widows and Widowers of Calvary

Hear my petitions, O Heavenly Father, for the sake of Your Son, who – by carrying out Your will upon the cross – has shown us the goodness of Your heart and, thus, has taught us to pray, “Our Father, who art in heaven…”