Post date: Jun 01, 2013 1:30:12 PM
“O, God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. God give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us...”
Lord Jesus, we are grateful you have touched us and called us to be your servants. We thank you that as we follow you, you take upon yourself our burdens and our fears and grant to us rest and peace. Our hearts know you are within us, above us, and all around us. We thank you for the call you have put on our hearts and lives, and for the full and abundant life you give us when we respond to that call and live each day as your disciples.
Lord, we pray that you would strengthen us in our calling to follow you. Help us to be disciplined in practice of devotion, prayer, and meditation. Give us the grace to choose rightly and draw us closer to you and to our brothers and sisters so that we may better know your will and experience the fullness of your grace.
Lord, you call us not only to follow you and to receive from you your wisdom and your love, you also call us to go out into the world and to feed your sheep, to be fishers of men, your righteousness in the world. Strengthen us in our calling. When we see the world in its darkness, help us to know what to say and do, and then to say and do it. Work in and through us. When we see sickness, help us heal. When we see poverty, help us enrich. When we see grief, help us give comfort. When we see despair, help us bring hope. When we see hunger, help us to provide food. Please pray out loud or silently in your heart the names of anyone you would like to raise up at this time.
through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.