Lord, we pray for our family, the church. As we helplessly depend on You for the strength to walk in the Spirit, empower us to live lives worthy of our calling, being humble, gentle, patient, bearing with each other in love & making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. As we acknowledge that there is only one body, one faith, one Lord, one baptism and one God and Father who is over all and through all and in all, root us and ground each one of us in Your love that we may comprehend along with all the saints the breadth, length, height and depth of Your love which surpasses knowledge and be filled up to all the fullness of God. May each member of Your body grow up in all aspects into Him, Who is the Head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. May each of us individually, as we function in the part of the body in which You placed us, and corporately, as we love and serve each other and shine Your holy light into the darkness, live each second of our lives as an act of worship, that we may glorify Your Holy Name for it is in You that we live and move and have our being. We ask these things in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever. Amen
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:45:28 +0000