Friday, April 14, 2017

WISE STEWARDS: LENTEN PRAYERS 2017

Day 39 – Friday
Romans 12:1-8

     Spirit of God, we rejoice in your presence among us. We rejoice that You are able to transform our minds so that we no longer conform to the world’s way of doing things. You enable us to trust God more completely. You enable us to place our whole selves at God’s disposal in glad worship. You enable us to have a clear sense of who we are in relationship to God and to our brothers and sisters in faith.
     Holy Spirit, we rejoice that You give us many gifts with which to nurture the faith and care for the needs of that portion of the body of Christ in which You have placed us. You enable us to place the needs of the body before our own and help the body to serve and witness effectively in the world. We rejoice in your work of empowerment among us! 
     You enrich our life together with many gifts, but we pray, Spirit of Wisdom, that You will give many of us the gift of giving, so that God’s generosity will flow freely to the world through our lives. For those of us who are not gifted in this area, help us to stretch ourselves to learn new practices of generosity. 
     We rejoice that You have linked our lives, inextricably, to one another. Help us to employ all of our gifts for glad service that brings honor and praise to God in the name of Jesus. Amen. 

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