BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE
Prayers for the Church Street Family
February 24, 2021
Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade
We can just make out the remnants of this pristine day through the last of the mottled clouds on the skyline. We thank you that you do not keep winter’s beauty to yourself, but share it so freely with us. Forever Friend, all our moments belong to you and you call us away from our day of entanglements to sit with you in the sundown hours. What better way to end this day of gifts than to share our gratitude with the One who cherishes our friendship? We shall take it and file it in our treasure chest of memories.
We confess, oh Lord, that we listen too closely to the seductive tunes of power and possession that the world plays. During this season of re-centering, touch our ears that we may hear the songs of our Savior. We confess there was a biting edge in our remarks today; touch our lips that we might speak only gentle words. We confess that we hold onto our bitterness and hurt; touch our hands that we might release the dead past. And once healed, may our gift to you be the service we render our sisters and brothers whose hopes and dreams you have asked us to carry. Receive now, we pray, the joys in the hearts of your people, as well as their innermost concerns:
- Thanksgiving: A father-in-law’s leukemia is in remission
- Members thankful for upcoming birth of first grandchild
- Family celebrates first visit in months to isolated relative in senior living
- Two express thanks for Zoom Bible Studies
- Six members offer gratitude for church’s help in securing virus vaccine
- Upholding one facing treatment for lymphoma
- Watch care: Young mother in last weeks of pregnancy
- Prayers for all children who are behind academically
- Healing for one with head injury
- Good job openings for two members
- Strength for two members in continued cancer treatment
- Member having knee surgery tomorrow
- All working to address gun violence in our city
- Family members in North Carolina, suffering with Covid
- Healing for young husband with Covid
- Healing mercies for one with painful headaches
- Continued healing: Mother recovering from a stroke
- Family requests prayers: Father nearing death
- Adult children, seeking quality care for elderly mother
O One Who Neither Slumbers Nor Sleeps, may your warm stars burn away those misgivings we are harboring and give us a restful sleep. Attend to all who are dear to us, and hold all your children in the strong arms of Jesus, who taught us to pray:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
