Unfathomable Grace

O lord, our God, how excellent is your name in all the earth. Forgive us for coming too often with our petitions for our right now and tomorrow needs without proclaiming your great and mighty acts or thanking you for the joy of our salvation.

We rejoice this morning for your unfathomable amazing grace, unequaled peace and endless love. Help us to make known today all the marvelous things you have done in us and in the lives of those we know and love.

We pray for the victims of earthquakes and tsunamis; gang violence and acts of hate; victims of AIDS and other diseases; those who risk their lives on the fields of conflict and those who live in the gap between what is promised and what is delivered. Giver of every good and perfect gift, help us to share with the hungry and marginalized; help us to bless those who can't bless us back.

In Jesus name, Amen
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Psalm 143

Let us pray:

Lord, help me to face my fears, O Divine Nurturer! I call on You for healing! Instruct me in yiour Divine Precepts, cultivate my soul! Lead me into deep silence and solitude, let peace become my mantle.

Divine Light shines in those whose lives reflect love. As the river make its way to the ocean, may I surrender to the flow of new life! Then I will trust that all is working together toward the wholeness of humanity, Then I will help rebuild the soul of the world with Love!

No Matter What

"God so loved..."

John 3: 16

Loving Redeemer, you have called us in love and to love no matter what the cost. As you love us and forgive us in Jesus Christ, help us to love and forgive one another. Where there is estrangement for which we are responsible, show us how to be instruments of reconciliation. Where there is disruption for which we had a hand in, help us to become peace bringers and peacemakers.

May we embrace those who are experiencing grief, disease and depression. We pray today for their joy and health in their bodies, mind and spirit. We pray for wholeness that transcends even physical health. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Share the Love

Loving and guiding God, great is your love for me and the human family.

Your love surrounds, undergirds and permeates me. Guide me, shape me and help me to share your love with those whom I do not know, who I do not like and whom are not like me.

May your perfect love cast out all fear of others and the fears that paralyze and inhibit me from sharing your love.

In Jesus name, amen

KPL

Search Me

Search me and know me, O God, and know my heart. See if there is any wicked way in me. Try me, test me and know my thoughts. Lead me in the way everlasting. Guide me along the pathways of righteousness.

Your power goes beyond physical boundaries. Your love sustains us no matter where we go. Help us to accept your faithful love and share that love to those we meet today.

In Jesus name, Amen
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God Help Us To Love Each Other

The Bible declares at James 4:8…”Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” Please pray with me:

God, help us to love each other as You love us:
Loving through the layers of what we think is hidden;
Loving through the unspoken while listening to our empty utterances;
Loving despite contradictions of what we say and what we do;
God, help us to love each other because You love us with our faults.

God, help us to love each other as You love us:
Loving through our cover-ups;
Loving through our sweet utterances, yet dark hearts;
Loving through our lies spoken with “just enough” truth;
God, help us to love each other because You love us despite what you know about us.

God, help us to love each other as You love us;
Loving through our mistakes;
Loving through our intakes;
Loving through our outbreaks;
God, help us to love each other because of Your unconditional love toward us.

God, help us to love each other because this is Your message from the beginning: “We should love one another.” We ask these things in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Bishop Sarah F. Davis
Presiding Prelate of 16th Episcopal District
Kingston, Jamaica

Fill Us!

Find a quiet space.
Be still and know God.
Open now the essence of your being to God just as a Morning Glory opens to the sun/Son.
Let us prayer together:

Loving God, we give you praise and thanksgiving for how you have created us, kept us and sustained us. Our desire and goal today is to know more of your love in our lives that we might be more loving towards you and others. Fill us now with your love, mercy and power that we might represent you, your love, acceptance, compassion and understanding in the world. Make us truly yours. In the Name of Christ who loved us so much that he sacrificed himself for us, we pray. Amen.

Dr. Lance D. Watson, Senior Pastor
Saint Paul's Baptist Church
4247 Creighton Road
Richmond, Virginia 23223
804.643.4000/648.4526 (fax)
"A Church for People On the Grow"
www.myspbc.org

Morning Prayer

Let us pray together:

Oh Lord, how excellent and marvelous is your Name. You are the day spring of all my joy… my shelter, the lifter of my countenance. At every remembrance of your goodness, I bow in humble adoration. Indeed, your loving kindness is better than life. As I seek You early in the morning, I am grateful to behold the beauty of another day. A day so beautiful because of the radiance of Your love, the brilliance of Your wisdom that protrudes my thought process as I listen for your instructions and guidance for the day. Lord, you are awesome and mighty in power.

In this hour, I am inspired and my heart is spilling over with love for You. Oh God… my God… I love you with all of my heart, soul, mind, body and strength. I devote my life to You… for Your service and for Your delight… for Your glory and for Your honor.

Oh, God, create a clean heart within me, a heart that has been cleansed from my guilt of past sins, and even from the pain and shame of broken promises. Yes, cleanse me, and make me whole. Your Word says Your mercies are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness unto me. My God, I praise Your Name.

I thank You for Your fatherly goodness today. Thank You for air to breathe. Thank You for the warmth of sunshine… the beauty of sun, wind, rain, moon, and stars. Thank You for clothes to wear and food on my table… a roof over my head… Thank You for being my God, and my Friend. Yes, I can call on You at all times. I am so glad that I can depend on You. Oh God, I give You my hopes… even my fears.

I release the pain of my past, the pressures to perform and to succeed. My passions and pursuits, I release them all to You. In Your hands there is major transformation. You transform my pain into purpose, my trials into triumphs, my distresses into destiny. You are so perfect in all of Your ways. Even my mess-ups become bless ups. God, I love You.

Thank You for Jesus, My Savior and Friend, Your only begotten Son. Yes, Father, Son, Holy Spirit—three in one, GOD. Now give me this day, to drink of Your Spirit, to be nourished by Your Word… clothed with Your righteousness. Lord as I greet my husband… my children… my world, let me do so in love, joy, and peace. Yes, today is a new day, that I can worship and praise the Lord.

In Jesus, Name. AMEN.

Rev. Maxine Thomas
St. Paul AME Church
Lexington, Kentucky

Search, Know and Love

O God,
Search me, know me and love me. I turn my face to the wall to commune with You. Satisfy me with your steadfast love that I may rejoice and be glad all my days.

Come gently to my secret places where my intimate self dwells. Give me the confidence to lower the barriers carefully constructed to protect me from intrusion. Gaze upon the passionate landscape of my interior life; tend to my weary soul, renew my mind with your words and refresh my spirit with your presence.

Lead me to that place where my ears hear your voice more clearly; where my heart composes new songs; where my voice gathers the strength it needs to sing; where my mind finds the rest it needs from the jangling discords of life; where my eyes see you everywhere in everything and in everyone.

O God,
Search me, know me and love me. I turn my face to the wall to commune with You. In communion with you help me to celebrate the divine gift of Being
Being still
Being alive
Being in your presence.

In Your name, Amen
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