O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people here at our churches who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them in our cities, communities, and neighborhoods: enable us by your Holy Spirit to love you with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love our neighbors here in our cities, communities, and neighborhoods as ourselves. And yet even as we do this, we know it is not our own works and doings that make us right with you, but your reconciling mercies by which we have the forgiveness of sins. Thanks be to You! Thank you, Jesus! Let heaven and earth praise you, Triune God, for just how good you are to us! You know the sins of our churches and the people within her, but have mercy on us, and hear our prayers in your abundant mercy. Answer us, for your steadfast love is good, and turn to our churches, delivering us and saving us from our troubles and our own sins. Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. And so it is to you, O Lord, we lift up our souls. We know you are the deliverer and love to show your abundant steadfast love and mercy, but we also know you are the just judge, protecting the innocent, bringing justice to the poor, and rescuing the weak and needy; and so we ask that you would show your love, mercy, and forgiveness to our cities, communities, and neighborhoods and deliver it from all judgments. We trust you not to put us to shame, but to glorify your name. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who on the first day of the week overcame death and the grave, and by his glorious resurrection opened to us the way of everlasting life, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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