City Council Invocation - 13 January 2026

 

(I was invited by Mayor Holt to give the invocation at the Oklahoma City Council meeting today. Here is the way it went)

This is God's word to us: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil” (2 Corinthians 5:10). 

I invite those who can in good conscience please join me as I pray to Almighty God through the Lord Jesus Christ: 

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. 

Knowing, O Lord, that we must all appear before the great Judgment Seat of Christ, it is our aim to be pleasing to you in our actions, thoughts, intentions and words. In this light, please give this City Council your healthy wisdom, charitable patience, resilient energy, and joyful civility in their plannings, ponderings, decisions and deliberations, so that they may see clearly how to best govern this city, to decide on claims, amend master designs, properly dispose of abandoned buildings, and more, and all in ways that will maintain liberty and justice for all – born and unborn. Please relieve us of the various forms of influenza and RSV running through our schools and homes. We beseech you to give us plentiful amounts of rains and showers that we have been needing. Thank you for the rain last week and please supply all that we will require this year to replenish our wells, reservoirs, and water sources, for the good of our crops and cattle. Finally, please preserve and prosper our city employees, firefighters, police officers, teachers, hospital personnel and EMTs. All of these things I bring before you through the mediation of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.


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