Everyone:
Come among us, living Lord, we come to hear your living Word. We meet together
in the name of Christ to share your mission and your sacrifice; to receive the power
that only you can give, that we might life! Come fill this time of prayer.

Everyone: Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us. Establish Thou the work of our hands;
establish Thou the work of our hands.
Psalm 90…

Call: Let us worship God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.
Response: We are new creations; the old has gone, the new has come!
Call: Let us worship God as Christ’s ambassadors.
Response: Through us and through our worship may we announce the good news to all.
Call: Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.
Response: praise God! We are reconciled, redeemed, renewed!
-Based on John 4:24; II Corinthians 5:17-21

Call: Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Response: Who is this King of glory?
Call: The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Response: Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Call: Who is He, this King of glory?
Response: The LORD Almighty—He is the King of glory.
-Psalm 24:7-10

Call: Lord, God, we have come to worship you as sinners in need of your forgiveness.
Response: We come tired from your work, in need of refreshment and re-creation.
Call: We come with worries, in need of your guidance.
Response: But first, please lift us out of our preoccupation with our own needs.
Call: Allow us to see you with the eyes of faith, and to hear with the ears of understanding what you say to us.
Response: Make us thankful for all the good we have received from you.
Call: Awaken in us a longing to do what is right.
Response: And make us aware of the great company, past present and to come with whom we join to worship you.

Everyone: My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
--- Call: Our of the depths I have cried to You.
Response: O Lord, hear my voice.
Call: With my whole heart I want to praise You.
Response: O Lord, hear my voice.
Call: If You, Lord, kept a record of sin
Response: Who could stand? Who could stand?
--- Everyone: I will wait for the Lord. My soul waits, and in His word do I hope.

Everyone: O Lord, our God, You are always more ready to give your good gifts to us than we are ready to seek them,
and you are wiling to give more than new desire or deserve. Help us to seek that we may find,
to ask that we may joyfully receive,
to knock that the door of you mercy may be opened to us.

Everyone: One thing I have asked of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life; to behold the beauty of the Lord
and to seek Him in Him temple.

Call: Who is it that you seek?
Response: We seek the Lord our God.
Call: Do you seek Him with all your heart?
Response: Amen. Lord, have mercy.
Call: Do you seek Him with all your soul?
Response: Amen. Lord, have mercy.
Call: Do you seek Him with all your mind?
Response: Amen. Lord, have mercy.
Call: Do you seek Him with all your strength?
Response: Amen. Christ, have mercy.

Call: The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, and all those who live in it;
Response: for he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.
Call: Who shall ascend to the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?
Response: Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who do not life up their souls to what is false, and do not swear deceitfully.
-Psalm 24-1-4

Call: O God the Father, Creator of heaven and earth
Response: Have mercy upon us.
Call: O God the son, Redeemer of the world
Response: Have mercy upon us.
Call: O God the Holy Spirit, Sanctifier of the faithful
Response: Have mercy upon us.
Call: O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, one God
Response: Have mercy upon us.



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