Prayer for July 29-August 4, 2012
Sermon Text: John 6:1-21
That we may join
You in providing for your people
Christ Jesus, we think, so often, that we do not have
adequate resources to address the needs that confront us. We look at our resources and hesitate. We look at each other and shrug our shoulders. We provide excuses for a course of inaction.
But You act with
confidence in divine provision. You act
thankfully and in covenant with God with whom You share complete
communion. You offer abundance when we
perceive scarcity. You offer blessing even when we fail to act.
Your generosity
matches need so that the hungry are satisfied.
But You resist all of our efforts to grasp You and manipulate You for
our own purposes.
Christ Jesus, You
confront us in surprising ways and in surprising places. Sometimes You come to us in the midst of our
darkness and turmoil, and we are terrified in our failure to recognize
You. Then You speak peace to us, and we
recognize and welcome You and enter the peace You offer.
Prepare us, Savior
and Friend, to recognize your presence in each moment, and to join You in
providing for your many people with your abundant resources. Amen.
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