Here
is a prayer of thanksgiving and intercession from Richard J. Fairchild’s Kir-shalom website.
Prayer for Others
Eternal
God,
you
are the maker of us all, and we are your creation,
people
formed in your image, as individuals, as community;
formed
and fed and furnished with understanding of who you are
and
of who and whose we are.
We
worship you today in recognition of your calling,
of
your communicating,
of
your caring to invite us to share in your creative and healing work.
We
are here because we have heard you speak in us and through others.
Help
us, dear Lord, to ever respond to you
and
your invitation to your grace...
Lord hear our prayer...
God
of all our moments, of our days and our nights,
you
speak and you act in the world around us,
not
only to call all people to you,
but
also to direct and guide us in the way of healing and wholeness.
Awaken
us Lord, to hear what you would say to us.
Help
us to open our ears, our eyes, and our hearts to your presence.
Help
us to know when it is your voice we are hearing
and
it when it is our prejudices and desires to which we are paying heed....
Lord hear our prayer...
Lord,
we pray that your church may rise up with renewed commitment
in
answer to your call,
that
your people may be instruments of your grace and love....
Lord hear our
prayer....
We
pray for those who consider themselves inadequate
and
dismiss or avoid your calling in their lives.
Give
them a new vision,
a
vision in which you are their strength and their hope...
Lord hear our
prayer....
We
pray for those who, in answering your call,
must
leave the known for the unknown,
the
oasis for the desert, the comfortable for the uncertain.
Grant
them courage and steadfast faith...
Lord hear our
prayer....
We
pray too, today, O Lord, for those in want and need –
for
those of us and of the larger community who suffer in body or in soul.
We
remember before you…[various
intercessions]
Lord, hear our
pray.....
Loving
Father, bless us all with an abundant faith,
a
fruitful ministry, a joyful life.
Bless
us and all those who gather together to continue the work of Jesus,
who
came to heal, save, and deliver us all,
and
who taught us to pray as one family, saying...
Our Father....
~
written by Rev. Richard J. Fairchild, and posted on Kir-shalom. http://www.spirit-net.ca/sermons/b-or02sm.php
