God has continued to use the book “Every Moment Holy” to encourage me and give me words to pray when I don’t always have the words to say. Reading liturgies is like a kickstart to my time with God- responding to Him with praise, remembrance, and requests. In a time that seems heavy and hard for many people- will you pray this with me today. And believe that God hears us. He is with us.
Hebrews 13:5-6 “I will never fail you, I will never abandon you.”
A Liturgy for those with a Sudden Burden to Intercede
I sense your beckoning, O Lord, and I willingly respond,
entering your presence to plead on behalf of another.
Spirit of God, you alone know the specific needs of
the one for whom I am suddenly burdened to intercede.
Therefore guide my prayer.
Tune my thoughts, my words, my empathies
to articulate your greater heart,
your deeper purposes.
I yield to your intentions,
even unto the breaking of my own heart
for that which breaks yours.
Through me, O God, may it please you to bring forth
effective petition for the one whose condition has
so moved your heart that you have now moved mine, calling
me to fervent prayer-
to cry out
to contend,
to do battle-
on their behalf.
Breathe through me, O Spirit,
your thoughts, your words.
Kindle in me, O Father,
your sorrows and consolations.
Teach me, O Christ, how to serve
and to love by intercession.
{Now make petition and intercession on behalf of those you are burdened for.}
Intersect our moments with your mercies, O Lord.
Intersect our days with evidence of your grace.
Let this burden remain or return as often
as you would have me carry it again to you.
You are ever at work in this world. So let
my compassion be always active and
my heart sensitive to your movements,
your promptings, your revelation.
Call us, your children, always to care for one another
in prayer and in action, in our various times of need.
Amen.
Douglas McKelvey. Every Moment Holy. Rabbit Room Press, 2019