Worship Prayers January 19

CENTERING PRAYER*     

May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities, and promises. May evening find you gracious and fulfilled. May you go into the night blessed, sheltered, and protected. May your soul calm, console, and renew you.

CALL TO WORSHIP (Psalm 126)

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,

we were like those who dream.

The our mouths were filled with laughter,

and our tongue with shouts of joy;

then it will be said among the nations,

“The Lord has done great things for us.”

Come! Let us rejoice in the Lord.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

God, of grace, for our failure to love others as you love us,

forgive us.

For wasting your gifts and hoarding our goods,

forgive us.

For forgetting to dreams, losing heart, and abandoning hope,

forgive us.

For all the ways we turn from you,

forgive us… (Silent Confession)

*J. Birch, faithandworship.com

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