Lord Jesus Christ, Your Mercies and Loving Kindnesses are New Every Morning" - 14 November 2021
O
Lord Jesus Christ, our great God and Savior, your mercies and loving kindnesses
are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23). In your incarnation you united
our humanity to divinity; you became the Son of Man that we might become sons
of God; you brought us life and immortality to consume our death and mortality;
and as our great High Priest you regard the humble prayers of all who call upon
you, who call upon you in truth (Psalm 145:18). Incline your ear and hear.
Remember
your Holy Universal Church, which you have liberated and laundered with your
precious blood, including this church and St. John’s Catholic
Parish, St. Mark UMC, St. Luke’s, and Soldier Creek Church of Christ. Strengthen,
O Lord, and have mercy upon all the ministers, pastors, elders, and overseers of
your Church: guide us to feed your flock with the true Gospel, the whole
counsel of God, sound doctrine, and rightly administered sacraments. May we pay
careful attention to ourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit
has made us overseers, to care for the church of God, which you obtained with your
own blood (Acts 20:28). Approve and improve your church, increase and expand her,
and keep her in health and harmony. Heal the splits of the churches, extinguish
the furious fumings of the anti-Christians, promptly negate and eradicate all heterodoxy by the power of your
Holy Spirit, and beat down Satan under our feet. Further, save, O Lord, and
have mercy upon those who resent and insult
us, those who seek to harm or harass us. Forgive them, turn their hearts,
and through Jesus Christ bring them and us into your gates with thanksgiving,
and into your courts with praise (Psalm 100:4).
Act,
O Lord, and have mercy upon all world rulers, on our president, on all our
civil authorities, and all the people of this land. Reign supreme, rule over
and when necessary, overrule our aims and ambitions. May all peoples in all
places come to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly before you (Micah 6:8)! Thank
you for the many men and women who took oaths to uphold and defend the
Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic; thank you for their
willingness to stand in the gap if called upon, and for weathering many
essential (and sometimes idiotic) storms, exercises, conflicts, inspections,
deployments, and separations.
Revive,
O Lord, and have mercy upon all trekking through trouble or trial, strife or
suffering (…). Remember them, draw near to them to hold their heads above water,
and by your command and compassion speedily grant them relief, freedom, and deliverance.
Rescue, O Lord, and have mercy upon those who have welcomed Barabbas rather than your Beloved Son; those who have drifted away from or dashed away from the true faith, and those who have become overwhelmed by sickening heresies (…). Grant them repentance, grant them to come to the knowledge of the truth and escape the snares of the devil.
O Lord, what we have here faithfully asked may we, please, effectively obtain for the honor of your name. And we pray as we have been taught, saying, Our Father…
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