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Prayer of the People, 27 Nov 2020

November 30, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father, 

In the space between now and what we are hoping for, we are thankful that you walk with us. In fact you go before us and have prepared a place us, but you are also leading the way for today if we will listen. Teach us Lord and tune our hearts to the whispers of your Spirit. You have given us to your Son Jesus Christ that we might live in the communion of your Kingdom and your fellowship— the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We praise you and rejoice in your promise. But, how long Lord?
Sometimes the quiet is not so quiet because of the anxieties of our souls.
Sometimes the quiet is not so quiet because of the anger in our streets.
Sometimes the quiet is not so quiet because of the alienation on our screens.

For some of us the silence we have been driven towards hurts like shoes that are too tight.
We feel worn. We are missing each other and we are missing a sense of ease.

Oh Lord send your Spirit to us and grant us courage to surrender fully.

Release us from harmful patterns of thinking and feeling and acting that have ensnared us.
Bind up the wounds that irritate and remind us of our shame.
Oh Lord heal us.

We lift up students at universities and colleges as they draw near to the end of this term. Help them, Lord, to study with you. Help them delight in your Creation. Grant them wisdom from above so that their sense of worth and wellbeing does not reside in the marks but in what you think of them. 

We lift up to you our friends at the Athens Ministry Centre in Athens, Greece. Bless them as we enter this season of Advent. Open hearts across the world toward those on the journey for refuge. Fortify your servants sharing their lives and the Gospel with your love and hope and faith. Oh Lord, please move in close to the vulnerable who feel caught in the snare of the wicked; provide them a way out and a way into safety and healing.

Lord we need you. We wait on you. We listen for you. We love you.

(Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer.)

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one;
for yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, 
forever. 
Amen.

This Prayer was part of the first Sunday of Advent Weekend Broadcast on 27 Nov 2020, Origin Church.


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Prayer of the People, 20 Nov 2020

November 23, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father, 

We praise you Father for you have loved us with a strong and faithful love. You have dealt with us gently and have sent your Son to us. He arrives and says to you, “I have come to do your will.” Your will is that none would perish, so He gave Himself once and for all that we might be free of our sins and the destructive reign of the evil one. Oh Lord! — Thank you for delivering us into your communion — the communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

Apart from you we can do nothing. May your Spirit keep calling us into deeper communion with you. We confess Lord — we are easily distracted. The opinions of others are forming how we think and feel. Our airwaves ripple with anxiety and unbelief. Our sight lines are filled with shallow comforts and dissatisfaction. So Lord we need your Word to penetrate deep into our lives and bear the fruit that you intend. 

May your love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control abound in our lives and shape our relationships with you, ourselves, with others, and with the stuff of earth. Your priestly work has made us acceptable to you so we hold out the word of life to this generation. As your kingdom of priests we intercede with you for this generation.

Oh Lord, comfort those who grieve.
Oh Lord, show your tender mercy to those who doubt.
Oh Lord, shine your light on those who are lost.

Bring a just peace to the unrestful regions of Ethiopia, Armenia, Mozambique, and Peru.
Bring help to the storm weary regions of Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Philippines.
Bring neighbourly wisdom and generosity to communities battling the Covid-19 virus. 

Praise be to Jesus our Saviour. There is no other name in heaven or on earth by which we may be saved. Hallelujah to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  As we gather together as sisters and brothers called by Him to His table, we pray as He teaches us:

(Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer.)
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one;
for yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, 
forever. 
Amen.

This Prayer was part of the Origin Church Weekend Broadcast, 20 Nov 2020.

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Prayer of the People, 13 November 2020

November 16, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father, 

When our faces were downcast you called out to us, “Take heart.” When we were not sure of our way You made a way for us. When we were sure that death was winning, you told us “Don’t be afraid.” No doubt, all our days are better with you, for you have brought us into your communion — the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

By the blood of Jesus all our sins have been covered. You have clothed us with joy where before we were weighed down with shame. Living loved is what your Spirit specializes in, so Lord, pour your Spirit into our fellowship!

Help us uproot unforgiveness and resentment. Free us from lingering attitudes of contempt and fear. Help us live justly and as much as it depends on us to live at peace with everyone — show us how to love even those who regard us as enemies. 

You have delivered us into your freedom that we might be free to pursue the righteousness of your kingdom on behalf of our neighbours. Oh Lord, when we announce the good news of Jesus’ Kingdom may it be accompanied by good deeds generated by faith in you.

Lord we lift up to you those who doubt their own humanity because of the disregard and trauma they have received from those with power and selfishness. Oh Spirit of God come close by, reveal yourself to them, and fill them with the grace and truth of Jesus. Heal them and raise them up as confident and strong lovers of your children, able to speak with authority and faith.

Lord we lift up to you the people of Mozambique, of Tigray in Ethiopia, and of Azerbaijan. Please Lord bring a just peace to the land that your Gospel of truth and grace may be known. We hear the cry of the hurting in our own city and we yearn for your Kingdom, so we pray,

(Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer.)

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one;
for yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, 
forever. 
Amen.

This Prayer was part of the Origin Church Weekend Broadcast on 13 November 2020.


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Prayer of the People, 6 Nov 2020

November 9, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father, 

Unless you had come to our side, we would have stood alone in the dark. But you came to our rescue; you delivered us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of Your Son, whom you love. You have shown the brilliant light of the Gospel into our hearts and minds. Thank you! Now your Spirit unites our voices in praise and our hopes together in the promise of eternal communion with you — the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

For some of us, life is going well but we worry about the future. For others of us, life seems like a struggle and we worry about today. Some of us Lord, are haunted by memories of the past so accusations pierce the thin armour provided by time to disrupt our day and our most noble  dreams. Help us Lord! Let us live by your truth and grace. Cover us and heal us. Sanctify us for your purposes and fill us with the joy of your salvation again.

Lord anxiety is weighing heavy among us. Bind it up and cast it away even as we come to Jesus as little children. We are too easily frozen or driven by our fears. So we come to abide with you. Form in us the steady trust in you that characterized Jesus’ life.

Lord we lift up to you students at the University of Kabul in Afghanistan who suffered through a terrible attack this week. Comfort the families and friends of those whose lives were so violently taken from them. Bring healing to the wounded and to those traumatized by the surge of fear and violence. Oh Lord Jesus bring your peace that they may take up their studies and enter into the knowledge of their Creator. May they become peacemakers who reap a harvest of righteousness. 

We lift up to your our neighbours who are weathering uncertainty in their finances, in their health, in their politics, and in their work. May your church Lord be a beacon, a city on a hill, and a taste of our kinship before your Throne and at your Table. So we pray Lord as you taught us:

(Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer.)


Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one;
for yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, 
forever. 
Amen.

This Prayer of the People was part of the Origin Church Weekend Broadcast on 6 Nov 2020.

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Prayer of the People, 1 Nov 2020

November 2, 2020 0 Comments

Heavenly Father,

Thank you for the grace that has brought us into your communion— the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our hearts sing out to you in celebration of the promise Jesus has secured for us. We can be at home with you now and forevermore. Thank you!

May all creation sing your praise and may every nation and people be a witness to your grace and your righteousness. Our Hope is in you Lord.

The hope of the resurrection secured by the death , burial and resurrection of Jesus has formed our communion together. Come Holy Spirit! May your holiness grow in us so that the character of Jesus radiates in all we do and say.

Oh Father encourage the students living in the UBC campus community. Provide for their needs and open their hearts to your wisdom and beauty.

We lift up to you the people of France. we pray that would comfort and heal. We pray that your Son Jesus Christ who suffered for the sins of all would prevail against enmity, envy, and hate. May your Kingdom come!

(Please join me in the Lord’s Prayer.)


Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one;
for yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, 
forever. 
Amen.

This Prayer of the People was part of the Origin Church Weekend Broadcast on 28 October 2020.

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