Friday, October 24

Petitions to Our Heavenly Father:

Attribute: God is Our Father

We praise you because are faithful, constant, loyal, reliable, steadfast, unwavering, devoted, true and dependable.

“I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
2 CORINTHIANS 6:18

FROM THE FIRST PETITION OF THE LORD’S PRAYER:

Our Father, who art in heaven

What does this mean?

With these words God tenderly invites us to believe that he is our true Father and that we are his true children, so that with all boldness and confidence we may ask him as dear children ask their dear father. (From Luther's Small Catechism)

Verses to Read

1 JOHN 3:1
ROMANS 8:15-16
HEBREWS 4:16
PSALM 103:13
2 CORINTHIANS 1:20
GALATIANS 3:26

A Father’s Love Letter

For our children:

Even before he made the world, God loved _____ and chose ______ in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt ______ into his own family by bringing ______ to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

EPHESIANS 1:4-5

Specific Prayer Requests for Ms. Mazur and the 2st Graders

• Please pray that the 2nd graders are able to stay focused during school day.
• Pray for the students who are struggling with responsibility such as turning in homework, following directions, and controlling our talking.
• Pray for a student whose dad was deployed on October 23. He will be gone for the next year. Keep dad safe and give strength to mom. Help the family not too miss dad too much.
  

School Requests

• For the mock election as we celebrate the freedom we have in our country to choose our leaders and vote on important issues
• The Fall Festival
• Basketball and cheer leading tryouts
• A successful October Community Connection

Other Requests

• Prayers for our country, our leaders
• Prayers for the election
• Prayers for our economy

Friday, October 10

Our petitions to Our Heavenly Father.

Attribute: God is faithful.
Definition: reliable, constant, loyal, unwavering, steadfast, dependable

We praise you because are the Lord who is faithful.

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.
Deuteronomy 7:9

Psalm 33

Verses to Read

2 Timothy 2:13
Psalm 145:13
Lamentations 3:21-24
Hhebrews 10:23
2 Corinthians 1:20
Isaiah 25:1

A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Gracious and almighty Father, You are the source of all lovingkindness, and You act in mercy toward Your creation. You formed all things and send life throughout the world. You have come into our lives and performed wonders of forgiveness and healing. Thank You for Your love and mercy. Thank You for Your Word of salvation in Your Son. In Him, we will join the angles in praising You forever.

Amen

(Portals of Prayer Oct-Dec 2008)

For our children:

My prayer is that ________ knows, O Lord, that Your Word is eternal; it stands firm forever in the heavens. Fill _______ with the knowledge that Your faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 119: 89,90

This week we were privileged to pray for Ms. Pierce and the 1st Graders

• Please pray for patience and guidance for all my children and their parents.
• Safe travels for those that will be going away for the long weekend.
• Open up their hearts to continue to know the Lord and learn more about him.

We prayed that the Fruit of the Spirit would be evident in the 1st Grade

• Love for those around us.
• Joy in everyday things.
• Peace in the classroom, with friends and family.
• Patience in all situations.
• Kindness as the students interact with each other.
• Goodness in all words and deeds.
• Faithfulness with friends and family.
• Gentleness as the students go through the day
• Self-control in every situation.

School Requests

• Prayers for the Rummage Sale – lots of stuff to sell, plenty of volunteers and shoppers
• Successful and safe October Community Connections events
  
  

Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling

1. Holy Spirit, ever dwelling
In the holiest realms of light;
Holy Spirit, ever brooding
O’er a world of gloom and night;
Holy Spirit, ever raising
Those of earth to thrones on high;
Living, life-imparting Spirit,
You we praise and magnify.

2. Holy Spirit, ever living
As the Church’s very life;
Holy Spirit, ever striving
Through us in a ceaseless strife;
Holy Spirit, ever forming
In the Church the mind of Christ:
You we praise with endless worship
For Your gifts and fruits unpriced.

3. Holy Spirit, ever working
Through the Church’s ministry;
Quick’ning, strength’ning, and absolving,
Setting captive sinners free;
Holy Spirit, ever binding
Age to age and soul to soul
In communion never ending,
You we worship and extol.

Based on:

Genesis 1:1-2
1 Corinthians 12:12-14
Ephesians 3:7-9

Text: Timothy Rees (1874-1939) Anglican hymnographer
Tune: 1710

Friday, October 3

Our petitions to you Our Heavenly Father.

Attribute: God is our Sanctifier

Definition:

The Holy Spirit empowers us to live holy lives. (Jehovah M’Kaddesh)

Sanctification is that act of God within the sinner in which God works with the new man in a lifelong process of restoration.

We praise you because are the Lord who sanctifies.

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:23

Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling
Hymn #650 (Lutheran Service Book)

Verses to read:

1 PETER 2:9
LEVITICUS 20:8
PHILIPPIANS 1:6
HEBREWS 12:2
EPHESIANS 2:10
2 THESSALONIANS 2:13

For our children:

Since, then, ______ has been raised with Christ, set ______ heart on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set ______ mind on things above, not on earthly things. For ______ died, and ______ life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is ______life, appears, then ________ also will appear with him in glory. Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to _____earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

COLOSSIANS 3:1-5

This week we prayed for Mrs. O’Boyle and the Kindergartners. Her classes shared personal prayer request which we were privileged to pray for.

Holy God, We Praise Thy Name by 7 Moms

What a blessing this morning as we began to pray. One of the moms (thank you Jill) suggested that we sing Holy God, We Praise Thy Name. So the 7 of us joined voices and we sounded pretty good! Here are the verses in case you don't have a hymnal handy.

1. Holy God, we praise Thy Name;
Lord of all, we bow before Thee!
All on earth Thy scepter claim,
All in Heaven above adore Thee;
Infinite Thy vast domain,
Everlasting is Thy reign.

2. Hark! the loud celestial hymn
Angel choirs above are raising,
Cherubim and seraphim,
In unceasing chorus praising;
Fill the heavens with sweet accord:
Holy, holy, holy, Lord.

3. Lo! the apostolic train
Join the sacred Name to hallow;
Prophets swell the loud refrain,
And the white robed martyrs follow;
And from morn to set of sun,
Through the Church the song goes on.

4. Holy Father, Holy Son,
Holy Spirit, Three we name Thee;
While in essence only One,
Undivided God we claim Thee;
And adoring bend the knee,
While we own the mystery.

5. Thou art King of glory, Christ:
Son of God, yet born of Mary;
For us sinners sacrificed,
And to death a tributary:
First to break the bars of death,
Thou has opened Heaven to faith.

6. From Thy high celestial home,
Judge of all, again returning,
We believe that Thou shalt come
In the dreaded doomsday morning;
When Thy voice shall shake the earth,
And the startled dead come forth.

7. Therefore do we pray Thee, Lord:
Help Thy servants whom, redeeming
By Thy precious blood out-poured,
Thou hast saved from Satan’s scheming.
Give to them eternal rest
In the glory of the blest.

8. Spare Thy people, Lord, we pray,
By a thousand snares surrounded:
Keep us without sin today,
Never let us be confounded.
Lo, I put my trust in Thee;
Never, Lord, abandon me.

Some additional information on the hymn:

The text for this hymn comes from the fourth century Latin hymn Te Deum Laudamus, which is often attributed to Ambrose of Milan (c. 339-397), but it may go back even further. The German version, which we sing, is attributed to Ignaz Franc (1774).

Ignaz Franz was born: October 12, 1719 in Protzau, Silesia (Poland) and died: August 19, 1790, Breslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland). He was a Roman Catholic priest and is remembered as a hymnologist and compiler.

Friday, September 26

These are our petitions to You Heavenly Father!

Adoration — This is an opportunity to praise God for who HE IS.

Attribute: God is holy.

Definition: spiritually perfect or pure, sinless, deserving adoration

Jesus, we worship You because You are holy and perfect, deserving awe, reverence, and adoration.

Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
Hymn #940 (Lutheran Service Book)

Verses to read

• EXODUS 15:11
• 1 PETER 1:15-16
• 1 COR 15:20-23
• PS 31:1-4
• REVELATION 15:4
• PSALM 77:13

Supplication — This is our time to call on God for guidance and help, and to intercede for others.

For our children:

But just as He who called __________ is holy, let ___________ be holy in all _____ does; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

1 PETER 1:15-16

Specific Prayer Requests for Mrs. Fuller and the Kindergartners

Fruit of the spirit for the kindergartners

• Love for others outside ourselves
• Joy in everyday things- contentment for what we have, thankfulness for families, creation, help us with frustrations to have joy- help me not to complain when things seem burdensome or schedules seem overwhelming to find joy in each day.
• Peace- for children when they are fearful; For a peaceful classroom when both K classes are together- when we are many the voices get loud and it can be less than peaceful.
• Patience- for our children with one another, esp. little girls that get their feelings hurt by other little girls. Patience for children as they wait for things, their turns.
• Kindness- some of our children are starting to show true colors and are not always kind. The problems are minor, but help Mrs. Fuller to teach and model kindness and the children to use kind voices and words, esp. not to leave some children out.
• Goodness- let the children have pure speech and seek to be good- be good citizens , be polite , raise their hands, listen to others.
• Faithfulness- to be loyal to friends and family, families to be faithful in Bible study, worship and prayer, in spending time with one another.
• Gentleness- May we all know how to answer one another in gentleness when wronged by someone else or when we have a need or when I correct or need to encourage a student.
• Self-control- for the students through the day and especially when the kindergarten classes do joint activities.
  

Other classroom needs for kindergartners

• Growth of concentration for the students.
• Bless the relationships of each child.
• Give insight into each child.
• Confidence for the children as they learn their letters.
• Prayers for the home lives of each child

Wisdom for the Drama Club- plays to pick, help me to be a quick learner

Prayers for school pictures on Monday -- what to wear and how to style your hair, wonderful smiles and for the volunteers.

Prayers for the stewardship emphasis this weekend --- time, talent and treasures.

Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

Lutherans love to sing and we have a rich heritage of music.

Martin Luther says, “Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”

The Lutheran Service Book (LSB) is filled with hymns that can be read or sung as part of a devotional time.

In prayer this week we are focusing on the truth that God is Holy and we are praying for Mrs. Fuller and the kindergartners.

This hymn speaks clearly --- “Holy God, We Praise They Name”. The text for this hymn comes from the fourth century Latin hymn Te Deum Laudamus, which is often attributed to Ambrose of Milan (c. 339-397), but it may go back even further. The German version, which we sing, is attributed to Ignaz Franc (1774). It’s hymn #940 in the LSB. While our hymnal only gives 5 stanzas, there are really 8 stanzas. If you are not the singing type, there are many Youtube videos that will bring the tune to mind.

“Holy God, we praise Thy Name;
Lord of all, we bow before Thee!
All on earth Thy scepter claim,
All in Heaven above adore Thee;
Infinite Thy vast domain,
Everlasting is Thy reign.” (Stanza 1)

For more stanzas, either grab your hymnal or go to Cyberhymnal.

Here's additional information on this particular hymn.