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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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Find us and Flood us (2 Corinthians 4)

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praise-and-worship-worship-danceBased on 2 Corinthians 4:7-15

The power is from you, Glorious One
An extraordinary power to persevere
and to speak

It comes to my mortality
to my frail clay
to my dust
You hold me and wash me and form me
that I may carry your power as it carries me

O the glory of your grace
Grace extending more and more
more and more to me and more and more through me to others
Your Spirit of faith and life flowing, flooding…

Find us, glorious one
Find us all for we are your treasure
Find us and raise us from the earth
that we may dance at your throne
that we may sing and shout our thanksgiving
to the honor and glory of your name forever
Amen!

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Prayer- Your Voice, Your Story (Matthew 9.32-38)

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Based on Matthew 9:32-38

I am mute
No words to share
No way to be heard

Jesus, Voice of Truth
You have compassion on me
You heal me
You give me your voice and your story
Glory! Hallelujah!

We are mute
By our own choices
By the choices of others
By circumstances beyond any of us

Jesus, Voice of Grace
You have compassion on us
You heal us
You send us out with your words of grace
with your story of saving love and hope
Glory! Hallelujah!

Jesus, Voice of Hope
We return our voices to you
Use them to bring in your harvest
May everything and everyone
be healed, be held, and brought home
Field to Forever
Glory! Hallelujah!

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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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