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O’ God the Father, you who created of Heaven and Earth by Your Word
O’ God the Son, you who redeemed of the world through Your Blood
God the Holy Spirit, the one who strengthens Your people through Your word
O Holy God Please have mercy on us as your people

Dear gracious and loving Father. We come amazed at your created world. How you spoke and who by your word caused all creation to come into being. The world both seen and unseen reflects the wonder of who you are. As we see the plans for life we see your power and majesty.

Our Lord Jesus, we come in wonder at who you are.  We see the beauty of your life, your death and your resurrection. We see the darkness of our sin against the love that you have, demonstrated for us, in dying on the cross for our sin and our rebellion

We thank you that you have risen again from the dead so that we might have life. Please Lord have mercy on us as our hearts bend away from you. Please lead us into places of rest knowing that your love meets us in our darkest places and that your forgiveness covers all of our sin your life and that your life brings new life to bear in our life

Holy Spirit please speak your word today, enliven our hearts and minds so that we might hear you. Please draw us deeper in love for the Lord Jesus we pray. That we might walk close with God as our Heavenly Father.

That you would convict us of sin in our lives and that you would help us to be quick to confess our sin so we might be clean again. Please Lord do your work in us.

We know that Jesus said that no greater love is this: that a man lay down his life for his friends.  We thank you for those who have served our nation well in times of war and of peace, those who have sacrificed their lives for us. Thank you today for those who lived and those who have died. Thank you that what they have done points to what we have in Jesus’ provision today.

Father, we pray for those who we know who are bearing the pain of life’s uncertainty. For employment problems, for health problems, for problems in family and marriages. Lord, we know that you are the one who is our security, that you are the one who is hope, that you are the one who is our joy. Please lead us to a place where we can rest with you. That we can enjoy you and delight in you and we might bring glory to your name; because you meet with us and we meet with you.

So please be with us today we pray in Jesus great name, Amen.

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Heavenly Father, 

We praise you today for who you are.  You are holy. You are pure. You are glorious.  In you, there is no fault or blemish. You created our world and you sustain our world and every good thing we have is from you.

Father, we confess today that we are not holy, as you are.  We have fallen short of your glory and we regularly rebel against your word.  We’ve been proud and selfish and impatient. We’ve been unkind and uncaring. We’ve failed to trust you in so many different places and we’re prone to set our hope on created things for what only you can give.  Please forgive us.  

We thank you that you have not left us dead in our sin and you don’t treat us as our sins deserve.  We thank you for giving us your Son. Thank you that Christ died in our place as a substitute. Thank you that He bore all of your wrath and anger at our rebellion so that we might no longer be your enemies but your children.  Forgive us for how often we think too much of ourselves and too little of Christ. Forgive us for thinking that the cross is a small or unimportant thing and remind us of how amazing it is that Christ died and rose from the dead for us.

Lord, we long to be a people who are holy as you are holy.  We long for the sin that we struggle with regularly to be gone from our lives.  Today we ask that would continue to make us more like Jesus. We ask you to change us.  We ask you to not simply modify our behaviour but to change our hearts. Please change our desires so that we want to grow and pray and spend time with you in your word.  Please give us the desire to put sin to death in our lives. Give us a greater desire for you and for holiness.  

Father, we pray for our community and our world.  We pray for those who are fearful, that they would turn to you.  We pray that we would be salt and light in the world and speak the hope of the gospel.  We pray for those who are lonely, that we would reach out to them and that they would reach out to us.  Protect us from being too proud to ask for help when we need it.

Lord, we thank you for your word.  We pray that we would understand and respond rightly to you today.  Help us to clearly see your will for our lives. Help us to respond with obedience and faith.  Help us to continue to cling to your grace, that we might be the holy people you call us to be.  

We pray all these things, in the name of the holy one, Jesus.

Amen.

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1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
1 Thessalonians 5:14-28

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Resurrection Sunday Prayer

“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; ²⁶ and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 

John 11:25 – 26

Oh Gracious and loving Father, by whose power we are created and by whose love we are redeemed. You have called us by name to be yours and in relationship with you.

In the same way that the sun has risen today, please cause your Son, our Lord Jesus to rise again in our hearts,  that we might see and feel the wonder of Your glory and the power of Jesus, new in our lives. 

Please, Lord Jesus, forgive us again for our sin.

We are a people who are full of forgetfulness. We stumble and fail so often. Yet your love is always there, you are full of grace and mercy. Help us walk in the light of Jesus as you are in the light not in the darkness of sin and doubt which we once walked.

We confess to you our need for your forgiveness for….. (take time to consider sins the ones you may be struggling with)

Thank you that your love is so clearly demonstrated again on this resurrection Sunday. That Jesus our Lord has dealt with our sin once and for all. That the slave market of sin no longer bears our name but is in your book of life. Thank you that death no longer has its hold on our lives.

Thank you that you have defeated sin and Satan and death. We have become free through faith in you. Thank you that we are free from the power and penalty of sin and that we have new and everlasting life.

Thank you that while this world is bound to judgement, you in your love have rescued us and set us into your eternal family with Jesus who is both our Lord and brother. Please have mercy on our world, please call my family, my friends and neighbours into this same love that you have shown me. Please Holy Spirit, call them by your power demonstrated in the Gospel that they might be born again. 

Please fill us again Holy Spirit, so that as your church we might live in the power that raised Jesus from the dead. So we might glorify your name, help us to treasure the risen Jesus in our lives and in our loves we pray

The day of Resurrection!
Earth, tell it out abroad;
The Passover of gladness,
The Passover of God!
From death to life eternal,
From earth unto the sky,
Our Christ has brought us over
With hymns of victory

St John of Damascus (8^th Century)

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