Eleventh Week After Pentecost, Saturday, August 10, 2024
Today, we invite you to reread, rest and reflect on the prayers of the past week.
Lectionary Readings for Today: Weekly Review
Psalm 130
2 Samuel 15:1-13
Matthew 7:7-11
Today, we invite you to reread, rest, and reflect on the prayers of the past week.
Lectionary Readings for Today: Weekly Review
Psalm 84
1 Kings 5:1-12
Luke 11:5-13
Reveal to us the ways you have prepared our ancestors for past droughts and circumstances, so we can recognize how you have also prepared the way for us. Give us the spirit of celebration, so we will rejoice together in your blessings.
Blessed be your name, LORD of Creation. In the days of King David, you blessed David with the assurance that you would remain with his future generations. We believe your same assurance is for us. We praise you for your generosity and for answering our cries while we are in the land of the living.
Today, we invite you to reread, rest, and reflect on the prayers of the past week.
Lectionary Readings for Today: Weekly Review
Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9
Hosea 3:1-5
John 18:28-32
Living, loving God, hear our prayers. Grant us wisdom so that we will live lives of truth, love, and understanding, and so we will see others as people created in your image. May our words and actions bring life and healing to those we meet.
We enter your sacred prayer space as we are. We have good and bad days. We rage and feel bitter about the injustices of the world around us. We sometimes wonder why arrogant people prosper. But you remind us of your promise to us. You count us among your righteous. Our destiny is not the destiny of arrogance.