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Your Word is a Fire (Jeremiah 20:9)

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Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Mighty and Mysterious One
Your word is a fire
Your word burns and burns- refining, purifying
Your word is an explosion, a bomb of truth and grace

Who am I to speak for you?
How can I bear your molten heart
these blazing bones
and not be consumed

It is such a holy place
Help me to stay with you and not turn away

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Prayer for Those who Preach and Teach, based on Matthew 13.18-23

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Based on Matthew 13:18-23

Merciful Father, thank you for your word. Thank you for the honor of preaching it and teaching it. Thank you for time to study it deeply. Thank you for translations in my native language. Thank you for faithful mentors who open your word to me.

Christ Jesus, save me from taking your word for granted. For tuning out at a familiar passage. For twisting your word to my advantage or viewpoint. For using your word as a weapon. For being prideful and hardhearted in what I already know. For staying in the shallows, obsessing in exegesis. For allowing work and trouble to choke the grace of your word’s correction and consolation.

With the help of your grace, I surrender and submit again to the calling you have placed on my life as a follower and a leader. I need you, Holy Spirit. Come, tend the soil of my soul. Keep me soft in your hands, that your word would root deep, grow true, and bear fruit in season and out.

For the building of your kingdom, for the salvation of your world, for the honor and glory of your name alone, blessed Trinity, I long and pray. Amen

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Prayer for Preachers, based on 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

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The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 NRSV
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Jesus, you are gentle, lowly, vulnerable.
You choose to be with us in our weakness.
You win the world with your love, sacrifice, and humility.

Your power is made perfect in
our weakness
our transparency
our vulnerability
our honesty with our dusty condition

Free us from posing as experts with all the answers.
Free us from silver tongued speech and human wisdom.

Let us know nothing with certainty other than the eternal truth
that you are the Anointed One, the Liberating King,
who was crucified on our behalf.

We entrust the message you have given us back into your hands.
We rely on your Spirit to demonstrate your power
that our faith and the faith of those we serve may be rooted in you alone.
Amen

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Prayer for Preachers based on 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 © 2017 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Prayer For Those Who Preach

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preacher collageMighty One,
pour out your Holy Spirit upon the servants of your Word,
that in its proclaiming
many would come to saving faith,
many would rise in compassion and holiness,
that in all things Jesus alone would be honored and glorified.
Amen

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Prayer for Those Who Preach
© 2016 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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