Minister: Lift up your hearts!
Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord!
God and Lord, we praise You now through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever.
You have delivered the kingdoms of men into His hand, and You have determined through the folly of preaching to subdue all rebels against the cross, all rebels against the deep truths of death and resurrection.
You have given us music so that we might experience something of Your infinite glory and wisdom, and have bestowed on us the privilege of singing this glory back to You.
You have poured out Your Holy Spirit, and we now ask that we would worship You in the power and authority that only He brings.
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.