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Our Congregation at Prayer A Guide for Daily Meditation and Prayer For the Week of the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 6-12, 2009 True Religion Law/Gospel Focus: Sin deafens our ears to the understanding of God’s Word (Matthew 13:14-15). The Good News is that Jesus, through His life, death, and resurrection, came to heal ears deafened by sin. Healing and life abound in His presence; He reawakens our dead hearts so they respond to the Word and abound in “true religion.” By Roger Sonnenberg, Church Year Series B –Pentecost 2, © 1996, CPH, St. Louis, Missouri The Order of Meditation and Prayer Pray and confess out loud as much from the order of meditation and prayer as you are able or as your family size and ages dictate. Learn by heart the verse, catechism, and hymn of the week
Apostles’ Creed I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Learn by Heart: John 14:26 Younger children – learn at least the underlined portions 26 “ ... the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” The Books of the Bible: Historical Books of the New Testament Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John Acts Epistles (Letters) 1 & 2 Romans, First & Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians First & Second Thessalonians, First & Second Timothy Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, First & Second Peter, First, Second & Third John, Jude Readings for the Week of the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Collect (Prayer) for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost O Lord, let Your merciful ears be open to the prayers of Your humble servants and grant that what they ask may be in accord with Your gracious will; through Jesus Christ, You Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. Daily Themes for Prayer (These prayers remain the same each week, as we weekly remember the needs of all people.)
In Our Prayers This Week Remember: the safety of the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, and India; and our military personnel. Remember: our community, county, state, nation, and world as we face the current economic issues. Pray for a heart that yearns to bring the lost to Jesus and Jesus to the lost. Lord’s Prayer and Morning or Evening Prayer Morning: I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. Let Your holy angel be with me that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen Evening: I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have graciously kept me this day; and I pray that You would forgive me all my sins where I have done wrong and graciously keep me this night. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen The Hymn of the Week: “Son of God, Eternal Savior” LSB 842 LW 394 CW 492 LBW 364 1 Peter 1:20-23; Hebrews 7:25; John 13:34-35; 17:20-21
Son of God, eternal Savior, Source of life and truth and grace, Word made flesh, whose birth among us Hallows all our human race, You our head, who, throned in glory, For your own will ever plead: Fill us with your love and pity, Heal our wrongs, and help our need.
As you, Lord, have lived for others, So may we for others live. Freely have your gifts been granted; Freely may your servants give. Yours the gold and yours the silver, Yours the wealth of land and sea; We but stewards of your bounty Held in solemn trust will be.
Come, O Christ, and reign among us, King of love and Prince of Peace; Hush the storm of strife and passion, Bid its cruel discords cease. By your patient years of toiling, By your silent hours of pain, Quench our fevered thirst of pleasure, Stem our selfish greed of gain.
Son of God, eternal Savior, Source of life and truth and grace, Word made flesh, whose birth among us Hallows all our human race: By your praying, by your willing That your people should be one, Grant, oh, grant our hope's fruition: Here on earth your will be done.
Special note: The Readings for the Week – 100 Bible Stories come from: 100 Bible Stories and 100 Bible Stories Activity Book. The Readings for the Week – Luther’s SC come from Luther’s Small Catechism – with Explanation (copyright 1991) The Readings for the Week – Living Scripture’s Story and Living Luther’s Catechism are also available from CPH. You may order these books at www.cph.org on the Internet or by calling 1-800-325-3040. Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, © 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. Luther’s Morning and Evening Prayers taken from Luther’s Small Catechism, © 1986 by Concordia Publishing House. |
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