A Hump Day Prayer of Gratitude and Thanks

Good and Gracious God

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Because we believe that you are good and gracious we come to with gratitude and thanks.

We are thankful for who You are;

Loving,  forgiving, truthful, Truth, redemptive

We thank You for Your salvation of us through Your one and only Son, Jesus Christ.

We thank You for the church and what it has meant to us over the years, even in her imperfections!

We thank You for Your Holy Spirit who convicts, encourages, and comforts us as, and when, we need it.

We are grateful for all that You have provided us:

food,

work,

clothing,

shelter,

the magnificence of nature – both the plant and animal world

family,

friends.

You are certainly a good and gracious God and we thank You!

Amen!

A Hump Day Prayer for Children caring for their parents

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Father God,

I come to You with gratitude for my parents. Though dad is in Your presence today I am grateful for the life and legacy he left.

And I pray for mom who is still recuperating from her surgeries today. I too thank You for her life and legacy.

It is wearying Lord to wait by the bed and wait from afar as a parent seeks to gain their strength back from illness and surgery so they can move on with the life they. So I ask for the mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical strength AND stamina as I walk with mom in this season of life.

I pray today for other adult children who are dealing with caring for their parents.

Some Lord are dealing with difficult decisions as to what a parent wants and does not want regarding care.

Others Father God are dealing with determining what to do about such care because the parent is unable to make that decision.

Still others are wrestling with all sorts of emotions – guilt, jealousy, anger, sadness, grief and the like as they care for their parents.

Even today Lord, other children are waiting in waiting rooms as important and serious surgery is being done and yet other sons and daughters are traveling because the news is not good.

In all cases dear Jesus, we ask that Your presence will be felt this day.

And Father, for those who deal with caring for parents as an only child or one whose siblings are no longer alive or able to be “there” grant Your grace for them this day.

 

In Jesus’ name.

Amen.

Hump Day Prayer for May 8, 2013

Father God

I come to you on behalf of those who are sick today. Ease their pain and strengthen their bodies and souls.

I come to you on behalf of those who are undergoing surgery. Guide the surgeons and their teams hands and thoughts and we pray for complete recovery.

I come to you on behalf of those who are the funeral home today making arrangements for a loved one or even a friend who has passed. Give Your peace this day.

And I finally pray for those who are just getting through this day without pain or sorrow or conflict. May they experience Your grace, love, power, and peace this day and help them to be a channel of these things as well.

Amen

A Hump Day Prayer for Grieving Parents

Gracious God

We are trusting You to be gracious today…

We need You to be gracious today

because there are parents who are grieving.

Some are grieving Lord because

their child is laying in a hospital bed clinging to life

some are grieving because  their child has chosen to go a direction that causes them great concern

Others are grieving because their child was taken from them in an act of violence in their own homes or neighborhoods.

Yet some are grief stricken because a parent’s grief is for a child who has been dead a long time and that child is still dearly missed.

Be gracious to these parents this day Lord

Wrap Your arms of love and care around them

Be a Good Father this morning

We grieve with them.

Amen.

 

Hump Day Prayer 4.24.13

I am tired today Father

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worn out and exhausted.

I am stretched out emotionally from end to end.

My energy level is low

Going to work makes me sigh

I am focused today on family

surgery

healing

The ‘what if’s’ of it all

I need Your strength

Your strength

to help me get through this day.

 

I am grateful for the words and actions of love

shown to me

but I know that I live in these moments alone.

And yet I know that I am not alone

You are with me

and that gives me hope.

 

So in the middle of this week

at the beginning (for me at least) of the day

I come to You

and I ask for strength that I do not have

to do what I need (and want) to do.

 

So then

Good and Gracious Father

You will be honored and praised

and others will be reminded that

You are a God

who does not leave us alone

in the midst of

this week

and this season of life.

 

Amen

 

A Hump Day Prayer for Those Who Wait Beside A Bed

Gracious God

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We pray for those who wait beside a bed

sitting, sleeping, standing

as a friend, a parent, a child, a spouse,

lays in it

in pain

in healing

in dying

in between dying and death

the life that is and the life that is to come.

The memories for some who wait are full and long

they go back, decades

through school

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home,

college or trade school

marriage,

parenting and work

retirement and decline

in times of peace and in times of war.

For others Lord, the memories are short

hours old

no history is remembered and

the history that is being made

is tentative and uncertain.

They both prompt the question, “How Long, Jesus?”

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But one anticipates a ‘home going’

the seeks a hope for ‘going home.’

So Lord

Our Savior and Healer

Grant peace, grace and strength to those who wait

and those who lie in the bed

Ease the pain for both

We pray for Your good and perfect will to be done.

Amen.

Post Easter Hump Day Prayer

Where do we go now Lord Jesus?

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You are risen from the dead.

We know this because we have experienced Your grace, salvation, and mercy time and time again.

What do we do now?

Make disciples?

Be witnesses?

But Jesus…

I am not a preacher or a missionary! That’s their job!

What? My job, too?

But Lord…

what…

how…

I can’t…

The Holy Spirit?

Yeah, I believe in Him.

Yeah, I know He empowered Peter to speak..

Yes, Jesus but…

I am not like Peter, Jesus

Peter was Peter…

Yeah, I remember my Sunday School teacher

uh huh, my pastor too…

Ordinary people?

Not to me they weren’t!!!

I never thought that way before…

I never looked at it that way before…

They were ordinary people I guess

but they loved You and obeyed You and…

I see it now Jesus…

Help me then… I can’t do it by myself.

Where do I begin?

Okay Jesus, okay…

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A Musical Lenten Hump Day Prayer

During our community Lenten service a few hours ago, the soloist sang a wonderful rendition of “The Holy City.” I had not heard it in a while and was moved by it once again. So here is one of my favorite singers, Charlotte Church singing it.

Lenten Hump Day Prayer for March 20, 2013

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“…when the Holy Spirit comes on you, you will be able to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all over Judea and Samaria, even to the ends of the world.”

Acts 1:8 (MSG)

Samaria, Lord?

That place?

Those people?

You mean, after Lent, after Holy Week, after Easter… after all the celebrating and hosannying and joy

the message is to go to Samaria?

Them?

Why me Father?

Why not Steve and Lisa, fourth pew ahead on the left?

They gots’ lots of love for people?

What did you say?

They have their own Samaria?

Really?

They have a group of people they have trouble relating to or being around?

ARE YOU SERIOUS GOD?

WHAT? WE ALL DO?

Whose mine, Lord?

(Oh, I knew that I should not have asked that question)

Really Lord, them?

Him?

Her too?

Wha..how..do I uh, care for them?

Listen to them?

Be with them?

Pray for them?

Love them?

(Pregnant pause)

Okay, Lord, I’ll try…

Okay, I am willing

Help me because they are so, so, so

Like me?

Really God, they are?

Maybe they are…

Maybe they are…

“Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself…“And who is my neighbor?”

“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him…

“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

Amen.

A Lenten Hump Day Prayer for Pastors

Good and gracious Father

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We pray for our spiritual leaders

from the smallest village pastor and priest

to the new Pontiff.

As they lead us not just in the ministry of the Church

but in the life of faith,

strengthen them,

encourage them,

sanctify them.

We are grateful for the service and the many sacrifices, seen and unseen, they make.

For those who are married

bless them as husbands and wives

help them as parents to be present for their kids.

For those who are single, male and female, grant them gracious companions along the way who strengthen their faith.

And as we continue toward Jerusalem this Lenten Season

walk with us Father God that we will be renewed in the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Amen and Amen!