Praying On This Day of Worship

 PRAYER ON THIS DAY OF WORSHIP

It’s Sunday and once again I’m grateful for this time God has built into every week.  In our 24/7 never-ending activity it’s good to hear the call to stop and pay attention to the one who created us and acknowledge who He is as our Lord and how good He is to us as His beloved children.

Come, let us bow down and worship him. Let us fall on our knees in front of the Lord our Maker.  Psalm 95:6

Heavenly Father, it is good to lift our gaze to You again today and to be reminded that You are our Maker.  You deserve honour and praise for the wonder of who You are and all You do. 

Worship the Lord because of his beauty and holiness. All you people of the earth, tremble when you are with him.  Psalm 96:9

It seems like we’ve lost our sense of living in holiness.  It’s not a word or concept we hear much about but it certainly matters to You.  Thank you for giving your own son to die on the cross so we could be made completely clean from our sin and be able to come close to You where there is perfect peace and rest.  What a mess we would be in without Jesus.  Forgive us for wandering around through our days without a sense of what is beautiful and holy.  We need that stirred up in us again. 

Some of us can gather together with other believers and sing our praises together.  Some of us can watch online.  However we gather today, we pray that our hearts will just honour You.

The way you are honoured the most is when we simply remember who you are and whose we are.  Lord we believe You are good and just like the guy who approached Jesus we also ask You to help our unbelief.  You are better than we know.  Help us to know more.

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;   his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:5

The nations will worship the Lord. All the kings on earth will respect his glorious power.  Psalm 102:15

You are good and we are grateful that Your love endures forever and that Your faithfulness continues through all generations.  We bless the generations to come after us to also know and love and worship You.  Raise them up in the truth and the liberation of being those who worship and serve You. 

And God we pray that from the kings and leaders of governments around the world to the smallest and least known person, that many would follow You and worship You.  Help us to respect Your glorious power and to honour You as You deserve on this day and every day.  Amen