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Prayer of the Week
Living our Faith with Joy and Enthusiasm!
One of the ways we live out our Christian faith is through a life of prayer.
Sometimes, however, it’s easy for us to neglect prayer—to let it get crowded out
by all the other things that demand our attention at work, at school, or at
home. To help us be more intentional in our lives of prayer, our Natural Church
Development core team has established a Prayer of the Week, and is calling all
members of Gloria Dei to pray the Prayer of the Week together at 9:00 am each
day. If you can’t pray some day at 9:00 am, you can choose an alternate time, or
if you forget, you can still know that the rest of your brothers and sisters in
Christ have been praying with you and for you.
This summer, our prayers reflect general themes of faith and discipleship as we
move through Ordinary Time in the season after Pentecost.
The following prayers will be used for the Sundays indicated and for the week
following:
(July 6) Lord of all nations,
we give thanks for the freedom and prosperity of our land; help us to be good
stewards of those gifts and to use them for the benefit of others. In Jesus
name, we pray. Amen
(July 13) God, our creator, you have ordered seedtime and harvest, sunshine and
rain. Grant that all the people of our nation may give thanks to you for food,
drink, and all that sustains life; may honor the land and water from which these
good things come; and may respect those who labor to produce them; through your
Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
(July 20) We give thanks to you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear
Son, that you have protected us through the night from all danger and harm. We
ask you to preserve and keep us, this day also, from all sin and evil, that in
all our thoughts words, and deeds we may serve and please you. Into your hands
we commend our bodies and souls and all that is ours. Let your holy angels have
charge of us, that the wicked one have no power over us. Amen (Luther’s Morning
Prayer from the Small Catechism)
(July 27) Almighty God, we thank you for making the fruitful earth produce what
is needed for life. Bless those who work in the fields; give us favorable
weather; and grant that we may all share the fruits of the earth, rejoicing in
your goodness; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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