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Blessings:
Forgiveness & Healing:
General Prayers:
Greeting of Peace:
Offering Prayers:
Sending Prayers:
Below are some worship resources which you are welcome to use at no charge. Please just use a copyright acknowledgment "Copyright Lisa Frenz. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission."
Most of these worship resources were written for Mt.
Carmel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Portland, Oregon combining elements
of traditional Lutheran liturgy with new wording, rituals, etc. to meet the
needs of a modern worshipping congregation.
P: May Almighty God, Creator, Savior, Counselor, love you, bless you and keep you now and always.
C: Amen.+ + +
P: The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine on you,
And be caring towards you;
The Lord lift up His countenance on you,
And give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26
C: Amen.+ + +
P: May the God of love and grace keep you safe.
May the God of comfort and healing hold you close.
May the God of peace and joy sing in your heart.
C: Amen.+ + +
Prayer for Healing
(Spoken over music)P: O Lord, you are indeed the healer of all our ills. We bring to you, Lord, our bodies, minds and spirits hurting and broken by the violence, ills, trauma and cares of a world separated from you. Come to us now with your healing powers.
C: Breathe on me, O God, and make me whole.
A: O God, we ask that you heal us. Give us the strength, health, wisdom and knowledge found only through you. Send your life-giving Spirit so that we may live our lives with courage in the profound peace of your love. Come to us now with your healing powers.
C: Breathe on me, O God, and make me whole.
P: O God, we ask that you sustain those who seek to alleviate the pain and suffering of this world. Give strength, courage, wisdom and knowledge to all doctors and orderlies, nurses and clerks, psychiatrists, researchers, and all other medical care givers, volunteers and professionals. Send your life-giving Spirit so that their ministries may bring healing and promote health. Come to us now with your healing powers.
C: Breathe on me, O God, and make me whole.
A: Be also with those who work to heal the wounds of societies and nations. Guide, protect and strengthen our lawyers and police, chaplains and pastors, healthcare and social workers, politicians, military, diplomats and all others who work for economic and social reform. Send your life-giving Spirit that they may promote your love and grace, bringing healing to those in conflict and stability to those who are vulnerable. Come to us now with your healing powers.
C: Breathe on me, O God, and make me whole.P: God so loved this world and this people that God sent Christ to suffer and die for us. Accept now that gift. Know that you are forgiven, reconciled, accepted and loved.
C: Amen.+ + +
A: Let us pray,
C: O God, we know the way of love is through Your Son Jesus Christ. Inspire us to pour out that love to people everywhere: in our homes, our communities, our nation, our world. Amen.+ + +
P: God calls us into relationship through Christ Jesus, promising to be with us, guide us, love us and save us. Step into that relationship now, and call on the name of God, sharing all things: praise and thanksgiving, uncertainties and sorrows, questions and requests, for God hears us, loves us and answers us.
(All share concerns, joys, requests, etc.)After each prayer concern, all respond:
C: In your mercy, hear us, O God.When all finished the pastor concludes...
P: Let us pray,
C: Dear God, your creative and loving power has brought us into being, fitting us for a life which is complete only through you. Grant us the joy of your creation, the knowledge of your will, the inspiration to understand, and the courage to lead our congregation. Inspire us to prophesy and create forms of worship so that all who come seeking you might be touched, challenged and filled by your Holy Spirit. Take and use our words and music, litanies and liturgies, rites and rituals to further your will. We ask this in the name of the one who brings us back into a right relationship with you, your Son, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.+ + +
P: O God of all, we thank you for the gift of life which you have given us in Christ Jesus, who in full divine knowledge became human, walked with us, lived with us, suffered with us and, in a sacrifice beyond comprehension, gave up immortality for death in order that we might regain the life we lost to sin. Teach us to honor all life, all creation, that we might be good stewards of what you have given into our care. Be with us if, like Christ, we are called to endure suffering and death in order that others might live; we ask this in Jesus' Name.
C: Amen.+ + +
P: Even in the dark places of this world God's love lives in our hearts and shines in those around us, giving us the joy of knowing the immediacy of life. Taste and see that God is good.
C: Amen.+ + +
P: God has received us, pardoned us and loved us; let us forgive each other in love and share the peace of Christ. Peace be with you.
C: And also with you.
(All may greet one another in the name of the Lord. Please remain standing after returning to your seat.)+ + +
A: Let us pray. O God,
C: We bring to you our goods, our work and our lives. Our praise and thanks are Yours alone for you are God. You alone give us life. You alone provide for our every need. Thanks be to God. Amen.+ + +
A: Let us pray. Lord of Love,
C: You gave us the greatest gift of all, our Savior Jesus Christ. We ask that you accept the gifts we bring: our goods, our time and our talents. Use them as You will for your purpose. Thanks be to God. Amen.+ + +
A: Let us pray,
C: God of all, thank you for the life you give me, the goods which you supplied to me, the power to make a difference in this world. Be with me in my daily tasks, my daily joys, my daily sorrows, so that every day, every minute belongs to you. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.+ + +
A: Let us pray,
C: God of all, thank you for the life you give me, the goods which you supplied to me, the power to make a difference in this world. Be with me in my daily tasks, my daily joys, my daily sorrows, so that every day, every minute belongs to you. In Jesus name I pray. Amen+ + +
A: Lord of all life and light, you sustain us with your very self, giving us food for our journey. Grace us with your continuing presence that we may be an active part of your work in our world, sharing the Easter message of Christ Jesus that all may come to know The Way, The Truth and The Life.
C: Amen.+ + +
A: Lord of all life and light, you sustain us with your very self, giving us food for our journey. Grace us with your continuing presence that we may be an active part of your work in our world, sharing the message of Christ Jesus that all may come to know The Way, The Truth and The Life.
C: Amen.+ + +
P: In the quiet of the our souls, in the comfort of your love we come to you, O Lord. We come for help; we come for wholeness; we come for forgiveness and love. For in the death of Christ is our death. In the life of Christ is our salvation. We live and die with Christ, our Lord.
All: Amen.