Prayer for a Worship Planning Retreat
copyright Lisa Frenz 2002
Below are some worship resources which you are welcome to use at no charge. Please just use a copyright acknowledgment "Copyright Lisa Frenz. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission."
Prayer Song: “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying" (Sung before and after the prayers)
Text: Ken Medema, b. 1943
Music: Ken Medema, b. 1943
Copyright Administrator: Hope Publishing Company (ASCAP)
P: The Lord be with you.
C: And also with you.
P: Praise the Lord who reaches out to the hungry of spirit and heart.
C: Blessed be God, our breath and our life.
P: Praise the Lord who is source of all creation, hope and inspiration.
C: Blessed be God, our breath and our life.
P: Praise the Lord who speaks to our needs of mind and soul and body.
C: Blessed be God, our breath and our life.
P: Praise the Lord who is Creator, Savior and Counselor.
C: Amen. Praise the Lord!
Scripture: (suggested - Acts 2:1-21)
Silence for Meditation
Scripture: (suggested - Acts 17:22-29)
Silence for Meditation
Prayer Song: “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying" (Sung before and after the prayers)
Text: Ken Medema, b. 1943
Music: Ken Medema, b. 1943
Copyright Administrator: Hope Publishing Company (ASCAP)
P: God calls us into relationship through Christ Jesus, promising to be with us, guide us, love us and save us. Step into that relationship now, and call on the name of God, sharing all things: praise and thanksgiving, uncertainties and sorrows, questions and requests, for God hears us, loves us and answers us.
All share concerns, joys, requests, etc.
After each prayer concern, all respond:
C: In your mercy, hear us, O God.
When all finished the pastor concludes...
P: Let us pray,
C: Dear God, your creative and loving power has brought us into being, fitting us for a life which is complete only through you. Grant us the joy of your creation, the knowledge of your will, the inspiration to understand, and the courage to lead our congregation. Inspire us to prophesy and create forms of worship so that all who come seeking you might be touched, challenged and filled by your Holy Spirit. Take and use our words and music, litanies and liturgies, rites and rituals to further your will. We ask this in the name of the one who brings us back into a right relationship with you, your Son, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Prayer Song: “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying" (Sung before and after the prayers)
Text: Ken Medema, b. 1943
Music: Ken Medema, b. 1943
Copyright Administrator: Hope Publishing Company (ASCAP)