Calls To Worship
Help
Adapted from Psalm 9:1-2, NRSV
We will give thanks to you, O LORD, with our whole heart;
We will be glad and exult in you;
we will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Adapted from Psalm 30:2, 4-5
Leader: O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.
People: Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.
Leader: For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime.
People: Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Dustin Ray
Adapted from Psalm 54
Hear our prayers O God,
Listen to the words of our mouths.
Surely God is our help
The Lord is the one who sustains us.
We will praise your name, O Lord, for it is good.
Submitted by Austin D. Hill
Adapted from Psalm 61:1-4
Leader: O God, listen to our cry! Hear our prayers!.
People: From the ends of the earth, we cry to you for help when our hearts are overwhelmed.
Leader: Lead us to the towering rock of safety, for you are our safe refuge.
People: Let us live forever in your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of your wings!
All: Let us worship God!
Submitted by Chip Hardwick
Adapted from Psalm 121:1-4
Pastor: I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
All: My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Pastor: He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
All: Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Submitted by Dustin Ray
Adapted from Psalm 121
Leader: I lift up my eyes to the hills,
Where does my help come from?
People: My help comes from the Lord,
The maker of heaven and earth.
Leader: He will not let your food slip,
He who watches over you will not sleep.
People: Indeed, he who watches over Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
Leader: The Lord watches over you,
The Lord is your shade at your right hand.
People: The sun will not harm you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
Leader: The Lord will keep you from all harm,
He will watch over your life.
People: The Lord will watch over your coming and going,
Both now and forevermore.
Bud Thoreen
Adapted from Psalm 124:8
“Our help is in the name of the Lord,
God chose the people of Israel to make a new beginning.
They received God’s covenant and prepared the way
for Jesus to come as our Savior.
Let us worship the God of the covenant, the God of heaven and earth.
Adapted from Psalm 146
Leader: Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God.
People: Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever.
Leader: The Lord sets the prisoners free, opens the eyes of the blind, and lifts up those who are bowed down. People: The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the Lord!
Leader: Let us worship God!
Adapted from Psalm 146:5-10
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
The sea, and everything in them—
He remains faithful forever.
He upholds the cause of the oppressed
And gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets prisoners free,
The Lord gives sight to the blind,
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
The Lord loves the righteous.
The Lord watches over the foreigner
And sustains the fatherless and the widow,
But he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The Lord reigns forever.
So humble us, O Lord, we pray as we gather to worship you.
Submitted by Austin D. Hill
Adapted from Psalm 121
We lift up our eyes to the mountains.
Where does our help come from?
Our help comes from the Lord,
The maker of heaven and earth.
God will not let your foot slip,
The Lord will watch over our coming and our going,
Both now and forevermore.
Austin D. Hill
Psalm 30:1-5, New Living Translation
Leader: I will exalt you, Lord, for you rescued me. You refused to let my enemies triumph over me.
People: O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you restored my health.
Leader: You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death.
People: Sing to the Lord, all you godly ones! Praise his holy name.
Leader: For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime!
People: Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Adapted from Psalm 22:23-31
You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
For he has not despised or scorned
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help.
From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
before those who fear you I will fulfill my vows.
The poor will eat and be satisfied;
those who seek the Lord will praise him—
may your hearts live forever!
All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
for dominion belongs to the Lord
and he rules over the nations.
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
They will proclaim his righteousness,
declaring to a people yet unborn:
He has done it!
Submitted by Stuart Strachan Jr.
Adapted from Psalm 107
O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
those he redeemed from trouble
and gathered in from the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
Some were sick through their sinful ways,
and because of their iniquities endured affliction;
they loathed any kind of food,
and they drew near to the gates of death.
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress;
he sent out his word and healed them,
and delivered them from destruction.
Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wonderful works to humankind.
And let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices,
and tell of his deeds with songs of joy.
Adapted by Stuart Strachan Jr.
Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.
The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply
The LORD is my chosen portion and my lot.
Let us worship our sovereign God.
Hassell Bullock
Psalm 121
L: I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from?
C: My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
L: He will not let your foot slip—he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
C: The Lord watches over you—the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
L: The Lord will keep you from all harm
C: He will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Adapted by Cody Sandahl
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