OUR PRAYER

O Lord, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth – you who keep
your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly
in your way. You have kept your promise through your Son, Jesus.

Yet give attention to your servant’s prayer and our pleas for mercy,
O Lord our God.  Hear  the  cry  and the prayer that your servant is
praying in your presence.  May your eyes be open day and night, and
may  your  ears  hear the prayer your servant prays, in the name of Jesus.  Hear  the  supplications
of your servant and of your people,  when  they  pray.  Hear from heaven,  your dwelling place; and
when you hear; forgive.

Hear our prayer O Lord,  by faith,  we confess with our mouth that “Jesus is Lord,”  and believe in
our heart that  God  raised  Him  from  the dead.  We have accepted and trust Him as our Lord and
Savior.  Help  us  to  willingly  and  earnestly  follow  His command  to  love You,  the Lord our God
with all our heart,  mind,  body,  spirit,  soul,  and strength;  and  to love our neighbor as ourselves.
Help us to  submit to Jesus’ authority  and pick up our cross  and follow Him  to reach the lost,  by
following His commission to:  Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father  and of  the Son  and of the  Holy Spirit,  teaching  them to  obey  everything  that  He  has
commanded, preaching repentance and forgiveness of sins in His name to all nations.

Oh Lord,  we pray  that You  will  anoint and  enable us  wherever and whenever there is a need,  to
willingly go and share  the  love  of  Christ;  making every effort to help alleviate human suffering;
and to make ready a people prepared for the soon coming of our Lord.

For,  we  believe  that  the bible  is the inspired word of God and that “Man does not live on bread
alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.  ” Fill us with Your word so that it may
become streams of living water to all that hear.

Make us, Lord,  worthy to serve our brothers and sisters who are scattered all over the world, who
live and die alone and poor.  Give  them  today,  using our hands,  their daily bread;  and,  using  our
love,  hope,  and faith in You and Your Word encourage them.  May we preach you with action more
than words, with the example of our actions, with the visible light that comes from You to our heart.

Lord,  make us an instrument of your peace:  where there is  hatred let us sow love,  where there is
injury, pardon;  where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair,  hope; where there is darkness,
light;  where there is sadness,  joy.  Lord, may we not so much seek to be consoled as to console;  to
be understood as to understand;  to be loved as to love.  Because it is in  giving that we receive and
in pardoning that we are pardoned.

When we are weak give us strength,  when we are afraid give us courage.  When we see the  hungry
enable us to feed them; the thirsty to give them drink; the naked to clothe them; the sick and dying
the faith to heal them;  those in prison to comfort them;  and a stranger,  to  invite  them  to come -
place it in our hearts to search for the lost, broken, hurt, sick, dying, and sinner and invite them to
come –  just as they are  to  Your Son Jesus.  Wherever they are let us go to them,  so that we may
share the love of Christ.

Here are our hands and our feet, our heart and our speech, our mind, our will, and our emotions; use
them Lord for Your purpose and Your glory. Here we are Lord, send us.

With all that is within us,  we  humbly  pray You will increase our faith and enable us to uphold the
commission of Jesus Christ  and that we not shrink back from following Him.  We  ask  this  in  the
name of Jesus. AMEN.