"Our Pastor's Prayer For Us
Father,
I first want to thank You so much for making us feel so safe and secure. We feel so privileged to be Your children. Your love, inexhaustable supply of resources, and sovereign grace have given us reason never to worry again. May our prayers reflect our dependence upon You. Thank You in advance for deepening our insight of what we really need. Broaden our appreciation for Your answers, and help us to mature so that we might steward Your gifts wisely.
When I consider our life as a congregation, I realize that virtually everything we have and own is the result of Your mercy and love. My prayer is that we may clearly understand Your will, gain spiritual wisdom, bear good fruit, have great endurance, be filled with Your Spirit, and give thanks always. Our passion is to live for Your glory.
Your promise of daily provision has sustained us more times than we can number. You have a history of providing for Your people, water from a rock and even manna from heaven. But that's ancient history. Today we personally recognize You and acknowledge You as our daily Provider, and we thank You having in stock the items we've needed to fill the grocery list of our lives day to day.
And, Father, we are learning not to be glib and superficial about our prayers because, without simple, honest, and sincere offerings of prayer, we reduce You to a quick-service pharmacist with painkillers for our every ailment.
Father, we can only hope that our lives are pleasing to You, and that we have been found worthy of Your call upon our lives. Thank You again and again for saving us, keeping us, blessing us, and using us.
In Jesus' Strong Name,
Amen
Ron Mehl"