Father,
Many of us
will go up to your house today, Lord. Many will wake up to the Sunday morning
routine and get ready to go. I pray that along with getting ready that you
would help us prepare.
Prepare our
minds for action. Prepare our minds for confession. Prepare our hearts for
worship. Prepare our spirits for thanksgiving.
This morning
I pray we would release to you bitter thoughts, skeptical doubts and subtle
criticism. I pray we would not inwardly pull apart our shepherd’s message. I
pray we would not complain about song choices. I pray we would not dismiss the
sacredness of holy communion because it is served in the mundane routine of a
church service.
Break us
wide open today, Father. Crack these hard clay exteriors, these hardened
surfaces, these rigid membranes on our hearts this morning. May your precious
Spirit break through pierce
us to the place we are quickened.
Show us
today what it truly means to worship you in spirit and truth.
Not in idea.
Not in theory. Not in doctrine. But in spirit and truth.
Meet us in
your house today. Meet us there we ask.
And break us
open.
Amen and
amen.
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