As we strive always to be your faithful servants, we call on you for aid. We call on you to keep us centered and grounded in the truth, shown through the life of faithful saints and even more so though the life of our savior, Jesus Christ.
Open our minds to your scriptures. Provide in us a hunger for your word, a passion to understand and to share. Help us to live lives that are firmly anchored in your teachings. Enable us to see how you have used your ordinary, flawed children to do great things for your kingdom and how you can use us, as well.
Open our hearts to the gravity of the cross. Help us understand that the path we have to eternal life with you runs through Golgotha. Help us understand while we are free to accept or reject your love, it is the depth of that love that made the cross so costly for you.
Open our spirits to your command to share the truth of Jesus Christ to all the corners of the earth. Clothe us with power from on high to overcome the fear of being open and sharing your love with others. Clothe us with power from on high to overcome our reluctance to invest in the work you lay before us. Clothe us with power from on high to overcome our ambivalence and sometimes even our neglect as we focus on ourselves instead of on serving you through serving others.
Focus us, as Jesus focused his disciples, to spread his teachings: to baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Praise be to you, O God.
We ask your blessings today, Lord, on Higher Ministries. Guide them as they work to empower Christian leaders and the people they serve with a sense of purpose.
And now, we pray together as our savior, Jesus Christ, taught us to pray:
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