Opening Prayers/Prayers of Adoration on Change
Full, Full Nets
Jesus,
You call us from what we know to something new
From a life on this sea with this family
From the nets of generations before us
You call us to a new beginning
A new being and doing
You call us to follow
To move and become
Help us turn towards you
Help us follow
Help us believe and trust you fully
Immediately
Help us live into our chosenness
To lay down what we know and pick up the new
Empower us to go out with you
Across, beyond, into the deep
Bringing in your wild, shining kingdom
Full, full nets
Full, full nets
Full, full nets
Full, Full Nets © 2019 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia, www.revlisad.com
This is the Place
This is the place and this is the time:
here and now God waits to break into our experience:
To change our minds,
to change our lives,
To make us see the world
and the whole of life
To fill us with hope,
joy, and certainty
This is the place,
as are all places;
this is the time,
O God of this place,
and every place,
God of this time,
and all time,
here and now,
we praise you.
Alan Grant, Prayer: “This is the Place” in Brad Berglund Ed., Reinventing Worship: Prayers, Readings, Special Services and More.
God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—You are ever the same
in Your grace and truth, Your power and love;
Yet, You always challenge us to grow, change
and become more like Jesus.
We’re not yet what we want to be, what we hope to be
and what we will be –
but thanks be to You, we’re no longer what we used to be.
And we thank you for the hope of change—
for without it, we would shrivel up and die.
It’s that hope which calls us to pray
for those who are sick or injured, those challenged physically,
emotionally, mentally or spiritually – and to ask You
to heal them, to restore them, to make them whole