Prayer for April 15-21, 2018
Sermon Text: Luke 24:36-49
That
your Spirit will fully energize our testimony
Christ Jesus, we rejoice that God raised You from death. We rejoice that
You appeared to your disciples and declared your peace to them. We imagine that
we would have been just as frightened and confused as they were to encounter
You alive after your gruesome death. We imagine that we may have drawn back
from the sight of your wounds and felt ashamed that we had abandoned You to face
death alone. But, like them, we imagine that confusion and fear would have been
transformed into great joy in your presence, even if that joy was still tinged
with doubt.
Christ, we rejoice that You have instructed us with great patience. We
rejoice that You have opened our minds to receive You in spite of our doubts.
We are thankful that You have chosen and enabled us to be witnesses for You and
to call others to repentance in your name.
Let your Spirit fully energize our testimony to what we have heard,
seen, and learned of You. Help us to give others hope in You, hope in new life
that arises beyond suffering and death. Amen.
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