Lenten Prayer

Dear God, this Lenten journey is forty days of me returning to You.

May this be my reminder of just how much I need You in my life, and how much my life needs You.

In these next forty days may I not ask You to overcome my weakness, but instead I ask You to use all my weakness to show Your strength.

In these next forty days may I discover that You love me just as I am, But that You love me too much to let me stay that way.

Draw me to Your lighted path, lead me and guide me, and help me find my way back to You.

And Lord, we know that all our strength is in the power of Your spirit upon us.

All praise be to you, Lord Jesus our savior the living Christ.   Amen

                                 Written by Pastor Faith Lewis and Lay Leader Bob Watson

Prayer for February

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God described as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—helping us

Ephesians 3:14-19 

Much of what we are is hidden. For years it is hidden from ourselves. In time, we discover our hidden gifts, and then it remains hidden only from others who fail to call upon us in a spirit of charity. Once the Spirit of God lives in us, we are able to serve God effectively by reaching out to our neighbor. The letter to the Ephesians gives us this Trinitarian meditation. For this reason I bow to my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of His glory, He may grant that you may be strengthened in your innermost being with power through His Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in His love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Amen