Prayer of Thanksgiving, Intercession, and Petition

Shared during Sunday Worship on May 25, 2025.

Heavenly Father we thank you for all that is good in our lives: for our daily food and drink, our homes and families, and for our friends. For minds to think, hearts to love, and hands to serve, we give you thanks.  For health and strength to work, for leisure to rest and play.  Hear us now, Almighty God, as we pray silently our individual prayers of Thanksgiving:

God of peace, on this Memorial Day Weekend, we pray for those who have served our nation, and especially for those who have laid down their lives to protect and defend our freedom.  And we pray for those they have left behind.  We pray for those who have fought, whose spirits, bodies, and minds have been scarred by war.  We pray for those who serve us now, especially for those in harm's way.  Shield them from danger and bring them home.  Lord, hear now our silent prayers of intercession:

We pray to you, the Maker of Heaven and Earth, for this congregation, for those who are present, and for those who are absent.  Wherever we wander in your spacious world, teach us that we may never journey beyond your loving care.  To you, the Healer and Head of the Church, we pray for ourselves; for the forgiveness of our sins, and for the grace of the Holy Spirit to amend our lives.  We pray for our families, friends, and neighbors; that, being freed from anxiety, we may live in love, joy, peace, and health.  Lord, hear our silent prayers of petition:

Oh Lord, may the peace you left us, the peace you gave us, be the peace that sustains us and the peace that saves us.  Amen.