Minister: Lift up your hearts!
Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord!
Father of all, we praise Your mercy for bringing us here yet again. We thank You for all that You are doing, and have done, on behalf of us, Your people.
We are called by Your name, and we would ask for Your strength so that we might honor Your name adequately in this service of worship. We would praise You in a way that befits Your glory, and we know that we cannot do this, unless Your glory is poured out upon us. Do this, we pray, not for our sake, but rather for Yours.
And so, gracious Father, we worship You now through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end, amen.