Intercessions
7th September 2025
Everlasting God, as you look down on our church family here assembled, we thank you for this place in which we worship together. Thank you for the love that unites us, for the peace we enjoy today and for the hopes we have for tomorrow. We thank you too for the health we enjoy, for the work that keeps us cheerfully occupied, for the food that sustains us, for the beauty around us that make our lives delightful and for our friends in every corner of the world.
Lord in Your mercy
Hear our prayer
Lord, we ask you guide your Church especially when differences amongst us seem to threaten our very existence. We face each other, but often do not see the face. We too easily make ‘an other’ of one another. Help us now to look again, to see Jesus in the face and to recognise hopes, aspirations and desires.
Lord in Your mercy
Hear our prayer
Creator God, you created us to be stewards of your creation, but we have chopped down forests, polluted the air, poisoned the rivers and seas, destroyed the places where animals live and then pursued them to extinction. Help us change our ways so that we can look after the world, and to make it the way that you want it to be.
Lord in Your mercy
Hear our prayer
Father God, help us to recognize the people in our lives who need someone to stand up for them. Forgive us for thinking that it’s “not our problem” and help us always to love our family, friends and neighbours as ourselves especially praying for those who do not carry the cross and follow Jesus as a disciple.
Lord in Your mercy
Hear our prayer
Gracious God, sometimes life seems out of control, and we don’t know exactly which direction to take, especially when we are, or someone we know is, ill. Thank you for overseeing our lives and prompting us in the right way through your word and your spirit. We raise before you now those on our prayer lists and those causing us concern.
Lord in Your mercy
Hear our prayer
Merciful God, remember, the souls of your servants now fallen asleep and for those who are saddened by their passing. Be with the bereaved in their loneliness and give them the faith to look beyond their present troubles to your Son Jesus Christ who died and rose again and who lives forevermore.
Lord in Your mercy
Hear our prayer
Faithful God, we praise you for all you have done in the past; we look forward with thankfulness for all you will do in the future, and we thank you for today and all your blessings we experience. Give us grace to step out into the coming week with You and the Holy Spirit in our hearts to share in Your glory.
Merciful Father,
accept these prayers
for the sake of your Son,
our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.