Lenten Prayer - Fourth Sunday (March 14, 2021)
Sermon Text: Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22
That we may stimulate renewed faith, new faith, and good works as we tell of your unfailing love
O God, we give joyful thanks to You! We praise your name!
We tell our stories to one another in order to stimulate faith and good works. We tell our stories to our neighbors and to the world in order to move others to respond to your unfailing love.
Help us remember the variety of ways that You have worked salvation in our lives. Help us to remember the deliverance from oppression, freedom from prison, healing from sickness and disease, and provision of sustenance in places and times of famine and deprivation that generated new hope and new life among us.
Remind us that You heard our cries, You saved from distress, and You practiced unfailing love, even when we rebelled against You and chose foolish, self-defeating, self-diminishing ways in service of gods of our own construction and imagination.
Let our lives overflow with praise as we remember and tell of all that You have done for us. Amen.
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