Open Prayers For Church Service
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Short congregational prayer (A short prayer of thanksgiving suitable for near the beginning of a church service or worship meeting) Dear Lord, We lift your name high today, like a blanket of praise, Thank you that you cover and embrace a fallen world. Thank you for this grace, that flows endlessly to us each day. Lord, we celebrate your love, As we lay our burdens down at the foot of the cross. Thank you that we can breathe in resurrection life, Thank you that we are fully redeemed and restored.
Lord, today we drink in once again the hope of eternal life And the promise of heaven. Thank you for your presence. Sample Opening Prayer For a Church Service or Meeting Father, thank you that you have brought each of us safely to this place. We gladly surrender our lives to you in worship and praise.
- Opening Prayers by Title/Topic Here’s a list of some of the opening prayers or prayers of invocation on this blog. To see a list of opening prayers based on specific scripture texts, see these other Prayer Indexes.
- 31 Scripture-based prayers to pray for your church's ministries and people. Skip to content; Skip to primary sidebar. A Month of Prayers for Your Church. Targeted Prayers for Your Church. I lift up our priorities as a congregation. Give us ears to hear what Your Spirit is saying to our church. Open our eyes to see things as You see them.
Opening Prayer For Church Service Pdf
As we gather we remember those who are not with us today - For those who are sick we ask for healing, And for those away from us we ask for your blessing to be on them. We invite Your beautiful Holy Spirit to move freely amongst us.
Come dwell in each of our hearts. Equip us, challenge us, comfort us, teach us. Inspire us as we learn more about your majestic ways. Father, as we meet now may we behold Your beauty and encounter your grace. We ask all this in the wonderful name of Jesus.
Congregational prayer example (A prayer with elements of worship and response to God's call) Dear God, You made the earth on which we stand, The air of which we breathe, And the beauty in the sky we stand beneath. How vast is your creativity, How immeasurable is the delicate balance and detail in creation. And yet you chase after us, like a shepherd watches sheep, You know us by name and pour out grace through your redeeming love.
Open Prayers For Church Service
Father, you long for us to recognise your imprint on all we see, To take hold of freedom from the prison of our humanity, And to be redeemed to walk again with you. Lord, let us now play our part in kingdom life, May we take your light into the darkness. May we give testimony to your redeeming work in our lives, And love beyond the fringes of our own small lives.
Living by the Spirit, may you work through us to reach a hurting world.
Closing Prayer for a church service Lord, thank you that we are a family in Christ. Help us to share his love and legacy with everyone that we encounter this week. May we lavish Christ’s abounding goodness upon our families, friends and colleagues. Holy Spirit, come and equip us in our workplace, guide us in our school life, and inspire us in our neighbourhood. May we be your hands and feet to the needy, your words of affirmation to the oppressed and your arms of comfort to the lonely. Thank you for choosing to use us to bring your kingdom here on earth. (prayer by Julie Palmer © 2018 www.lords-prayer-words.com).
After Worship Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that the words which we have heard this day with our outward ears, may, through thy grace, be so grafted inwardly in our hearts, that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living, to the honor and praise of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Source: 1979 Book of Common Prayer, Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA) The Grace Prayer May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all, now and evermore.
(a prayer widely used in the Methodist church for closing a church service or meeting. About the practice of this prayer here -.).