05/24/2026
MORNING PRAYER
MAY 24, 2026
PENTECOST
Grace to you, and peace, in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
PRELUDE “Come Lord Jesus, Send Us Your Spirit”
https://youtu.be/7Nl8TMRsE6E
OPENING PRAYER
Inflaming Fire, Source of our courage,
Inflowing Grace, Source of our healing,
Inflowing Joy, Source of our outgoing love,
Holy Spirit we worship you.
O God, who enters our lives as both flesh and spirit,
we approach you with the liberty of the richly blessed.
Enlighten our minds to perceive you,
and enlarge our capacity to receive you,
that being together in one place on this day of Pentecost
may see us possessed by that spirit of renewal
which makes everything young again.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Alleluia! Amen!
HYMN “On Pentecost They Gathered” - #128 in the hymnal
https://youtu.be/QvjaFnPF1uM
SCRIPTURE READINGS: Acts 2:1121, John 20:19-23
MEDITATION
Dan Clendenin guides our meditation on this Pentecost Sunday:
https://www.journeywithjesus.net/essays/3573-peace-to-you
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION
O Spirit of God,
source of all wisdom and understanding,
giver of life and our inspiration,
hear us now as we pray.
Loosen our tongues, transform our faltering words
and give voice to the unspoken desires of our hearts,
that our prayers may be worthy to be heard.
O God of power,
you have sent your Holy Spirit
to fill your Church with your own breath.
Grant to your preachers sincere speech to proclaim your Word
not with words of flattery and popular wisdom,
but with the power of your Spirit,
so that everyone may hear in their own language.
Empower your church that the cause of Christ may prosper
here in our small corner of the world
and in all the other corners we will never see.
Revive us again; set tongues of flame dancing among us,
that your people may rejoice in you,
and your name may again be honored.
O God of justice,
may your cleansing Spirit blow across our land.
Give health and grace to those who make and administer our laws.
Bless our farms and industries
and inspire us to world honestly and heartily
that there may be enough and to spare for everyone.
When we are tempted to grasp our possessions too tightly,
help us to remember that those who store up their treasure here on earth,
may find that moths have destroyed and rust consumed,
and storms blown away the rest.
Teach all of us to be humble, temperate, and gracious,
keeping our trust firmly planted in you, and not in our possessions.
In the times when we fear we have too little,
open our hands to share what we have with those who have even less.
O God of life,
it is your breath that sustains us,
and your Spirit that gives us life.
Grant healing and strength to those who look to you
for release from their pain and suffering.
Remember the lonely and neglected,
especially the ones we have forgotten or never knew.
Surround and protect our children and grandchildren,
our parents and grandparents, our brothers and sisters,
and all the members of our family,
both the one we were born into
and the one we have chosen for ourselves.
And grant us, each in our own time,
a place with your saints in glory.
O God of power and might,
at the feast of Pentecost
you sent your Holy Spirit to the disciples,
filling them with joy and boldness
to preach the gospel;
empower us with that same Spirit
to witness to your redeeming love
and draw all people to you.
This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord
who taught us to pray together saying:
Our Father . . .
HYMN “Spirit” – hymn #319 in hymnal
https://youtu.be/6rgLsoWxwyU
BENEDICTION
Go out into the world,
and labor to bring forth new life.
Dream dreams, pursue visions
and speak of God’s goodness
in the words of those who would hear.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit
be with you this day and forever. Amen.
POSTLUDE “Consuming Fire”
https://youtu.be/UPptwbMXrpo
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