Workers in God's Service

Heavenly Father,

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We thank You for this glorious day. Let us exalt Your holy name and give thanks for all that You have blessed us with. Let us use our voices to express the goodness of our Lord and Savior.

 

Seal our hearts with Your holy name, so that we may forever know that Your Holy Spirit has been instilled within us. Let us use the gifts You have given us to exemplify the glory and power of our Father in Heaven.

 

Let us remind ourselves and others that the victory of Jesus Christ lives on and forever will remain. So I will use the voice You have given me to give thanks in the name of Jesus.

 

Let us give thanks to the Spirit of the Lord for remaining faithful and protecting us through our troubles and trials. You have been there for us from the beginning, navigating us through the darkest valleys. Let us remember that we may be pricked by thorns, only to one day see the meadows of our beautiful Father, who has given us the everlasting promise that He will always be there.

 

Let us remember that You have given each and every one of us wisdom. As long as we look to You and Your Holy Word, it nourishes our spirits in an everlasting way. You have planted Your roots within us so that our limbs may extend toward one another, allowing us to grow closer to You and to each other.

 

Let us remind one another to call upon the name of Jesus for all that He is and all that He does. For we have a victorious God who understands us and understands all that we are going through.

 

Let us seek Your counsel in all that we do God, for You shepherd us through every valley so that we may walk toward the gates of salvation. Let us remain ready, equipped, and prepared to follow wherever You lead us. Let us exemplify, through our gaits and our ways, all that the Lord has done for us.

 

Let us set a reminder within our hearts that God has provided for us, has fought for us, and forever will fight for us with all of His might. We have a testimony to proclaim a million times over: our God will never fail.

 

That He never ceases to work, even when His own children may be stubborn to move. So let us seek His discipline, and when He says, “You better move,” we move.

 

Let us seek His knowledge and guidance, so that just as He knows our ways, we may look to Him with full obedience and servitude. Let us understand that our Father is our protector and that He will forever provide.

 

God let Your light shine upon us. Let Your presence and reverence rest upon us. Let our Father in Heaven lead us toward Him. And we shall follow, because He has already set the destination before us.

 

Let us hold one another’s hands through our journeys. Let the very day the Lord has made be a reminder that He never ceases. That He has made it that we can all be here in unison to give Him praise. Let us see with our very eyes where the Lord has brought us. 

 

For there may have been moments when we thought the odds were against us, but what the Lord is doing for us will cause every obstacle to stand beneath us. Our Father has lifted us through moments when we thought we would never rise again. He has displayed His love for us in times when our hearts were broken. He has healed us in crises we thought we were not ready to face.

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And let it be known, that’s how the light got in.

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Those broken places became the very spaces where God’s light entered. What we thought would destroy us became places where He mended us. What we thought would leave us empty became places where He filled us. What we thought would be the end became another testimony of His faithfulness.

 

He has mended us, and He will do so again. And if I could say again, that’s how the light got in. He is, and forever will be, our God.

 

Amen.