Beautiful Pastoral Prayer

Our hearts will be listening to your Spirit this morning.

Beautiful pastoral prayer. Bless we pray this gathering of your people. For the gift of the Holy Spirit. Wash us shape us refine us shatter our misconceptions about you reconstruct our values make us different.

We give you thanks for the gift of life. Almighty God you are an exquisite creator with hands that carve out beauty you are author of life yet you give us such freedom. The suffering and sorrow.

So let us live as if prayer really matters. And your beauty. The Pastoral Prayer is designed to help the congregation pray together to the Lord before hearing from his Word to praise him confess to him petition him and ask him to work in our church and others.

We pray for courage to be the people who you have called us to be people who seek justice and peace through your love for all of your people. Commit to pray for our Christian brothers and sisters suffering persecution in China. Ad Discover five ways you can pray for Chinese Christians during the Winter Olympic Games.

Holy God we come before you in prayer lifting to you the joys and concerns the hopes and dreams of our lives. To all who are missing loved ones that the living and. And we remember today that this is your prayer for us as a churchthat we may be one as you are one.

A pastor who wishes to faithfully lead the church in worship must lead in prayer. For the gift of your Son. To offer you praise and worship to hear you speak to us and to leave here shaped a little bit more into the likeness of Jesus Christ.