Call to Worship and Prayers for Sunday…..

Just wanted to share….

Call to Worship:

One: We question your miracles

All: Of turning water into wine, raising the dead, healing the blind

One: There are so many miracles that have gone undone

All: Miracles of healing from cancer, finding a job, or depression

One: Why can’t you fulfill those miracles?

All: These are our questions, our prayers, and our petitions to you God.  And so we wait, with You and with each other – where we will find comfort.

Prayer:

We live in the in between –

We believe in Your love for us and the world,

We see Your blessings in our own lives and others’

Hopeful for your Word yet to be fulfilled

But then there is the reality –

a reality that we are hurting,

we are filled with self-doubt,

We are overworked and tired

            We want peace

                        We want quiet

and we wonder where You are.     

So this is our confession -  

That we live in the in between – that we both believe and doubt

And we are grateful that we find You in both places ….

And so, with all our hope, belief and doubt we continue to pray the prayer that Jesus taught us saying… 

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.  Amen.