PRAYER
FOR & ASSURANCE OF GRACE
God,
you invite us to follow your Way, you offer us a whole new future.
But
sometimes the promise takes so long to come true that we start to
doubt
Sometimes
we make back-up plans in case the promise somehow fails.
And
again you come to us, calling us to be people of hope, to trust in
the promise.
Help
us to trust, help us to be people of hope.
God
of the promise, there are days when we feel alone, surrounded by
people who are out to get us,
There
are days when we feel like lone voices sharing a different vision in
a wilderness of opposing voices
There
are days when it is easy to lose heart.
God
of grace, when we lose heart, when we doubt the promise, when we fall
back to our own plans,
Forgive
our weakness, remove our anxiety and despair, renew us to trust and
hope.
From
the witness of the ancient writers we hear these words of assurance:
(Psalm 27 1, 13-14)
The Lord is
my light and my salvation; whom
shall I fear?
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
In that confidence we will be people of trust and hope. Thanks be to God. Amen.
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