Minister: Lift up your hearts!
Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord!
Almighty God, everlasting Father, gracious Lord, we worship You now in Your triune holiness, knowing that we cannot worship You or approach You in any other way.
We pray to You, Father, lifting up Your name because we know that Jesus taught us to come to You, to pray to You, to worship You. It was His mission, as the way, the truth, and the life, to bring us to You.
We pray in the powerful name of Jesus, knowing that this is the name that is above every name. No other name could bring us to You. No other name could shape us the way that His name has.
We pray to You, impelled and empowered by the holy Spirit, the Spirit of our Father and our Lord together, proceeding from both
We are the bride of Christ; we are married to Your Son. We are Your daughter-in-law, and we rejoice that we may offer our worship to You now from within Your family. We are astounded at the kindness which has included us in this way, and we would overflow with thanks. Fill us with that thanks so that we might overflow appropriately. We ask for this now, here, this morning.
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
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