Trust God — based on Psalm 118:5-9
Heavenly Father,
We enter Your presence with Thanksgiving and Your courts with joy because we delight in Your love, goodness, and righteousness. We focus all of our attention on You. Thank you for bringing us into the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We are thankful that when we call on You in distress,
You answer us and set us in a wide open spaces.
We call out to You today for those harmed by the coronavirus, the escalation in the Syrian conflict, the Delhi riots, and globally for migrants whose paths are blocked. Please comfort them and bring people who care into their lives.
Lord, we pray for justice in the Wet’suwet’en conflict; please let honour and respect prevail as the issues are more carefully considered. Lord, we ask for Your help, guidance, comfort, and just, so that people can experience life in wide open spaces.
Help all humanity walk in the communion of the Father, Son, and Spirit and know that You are for us, and that we do not have to live in fear.
The Lord is for us and helps us. Please Let Vanessa sense Your help for her and her family as they grieve their loss today. Show us ways to offer support.
(Please take a moment and pray for people God brings to your mind.)
Your Word, Lord reminds us: It is better for us to trust in you than to put confidence in humanity. We need each other, but there is no substitute for your love.
We deeply trust You and ask You to help our unbelief. You are a righteous, good, beautiful, and true God. We rest in You and Your ways.
In Jesus’ Name, amen.
Please join me in praying 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.
Prepared by Ellen and Craig O’Brien