Prayers

Prayers

Connecting Faith and Everyday Life through the Lord’s Prayer

One of our faithful readers responded to my last posting with a question about how Christians can practically connect their faith to their everyday life. It’s a great question, as I believe it’s something most believers have a hard time doing. Many of us have been taught the importance of having a ‘quiet time’ or ‘devotional’—the daily practice of setting aside time to read the Bible and pray. However, if you’ve been a Christian for more than a week, you’ve…

3/29/20 Order of Worship

9:00am Christian Education Hour Our Christian Education Hour is from 9:00-10:00am Sundays using Zoom. Terry is teaching Old Testament survey. Please contact terry@cornerstonewestford.com for the conference number. 10:15am Facebook Live Service Our Sunday service begins at 10:15am using our Facebook Page: Cornerstone Congregational Church – Westford, MA (no account needed). Whether you regularly attend Cornerstone or this is your first time we hope you can join us.  Order of Worship  Welcome Welcome to our church and new friends tuning in!…

Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 7: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.  (Ps 118:24)  Let us wrap up our series of prayer with an exaltatation to the King with Ps 145. Please keep praying continually for the Holy Spirit to breath the new life of Christ in us and to spiritually revive Westford and our region. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your…

Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 6: but deliver us from evil

Are you counting down to the Trunk-or-Treat?  One more day! Thank you for your faithfulness in prayers. Jesus said if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, we can move mountains. Nothing is impossible with God. (Matt 17:20) Let’s contiue to pray in faith. but deliver us from evil: “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the…

Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 5: And lead us not into temptation

And lead us not into temptation, “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation.  The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matt 26:41) Our merciful Father, though we are flawed and sinful people, we thank You that now through Christ we are now a new creation and a chosen people. We thank You for the Holy Spirit working in us daily to regenerate us as we seek You. We confess that in our present time,…

Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 4: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Our gracious and forgiving Father, we come humbly and fearfully to You. Indeed, “If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.”  (Ps 130:3) Holy God, You could have judged us as condemned. Yet with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with You is plentiful redemption. (Ps 130:7) Thank You for redeeming us and now…

Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 3: Give us this day our daily bread.

Give us this day our daily bread. “He who did not spare his Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32). Our Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord Who provides, You provided Abraham a ram for a sacrifice so his son Isaac was spared. Yet for our salvation sake, You did not spare your firstborn Son. Rather, because of your love toward us, You gave beloved Son up as…

Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 2: Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9) Our infinite Father, your way is holy and wise. Because You are able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, (Eph 3:20) we lift up Cornerstone and the Trunk-or-Treat into Your hands. Let us seek Your will together and walk…

Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 1: Thy Kingdom Come

The annual Trunk-or-Treat outreach event is upon us.  To prepare for this event, the Outreach Team is inviting everyone to join in intercessory prayers for the next 8 days leading up to the event on 10/26 at 12-2pm.  If you are called to fast, please do so. Please be on the look out for the daily prayer email starting tomorrow, 10/19.  It is a great opportunity to fill the role of our calling as a royal priesthood by offering our intercessory prayers on behalf of Cornerstone, Westford and the…

40 Days of Prayer & Fasting Church Guide

Introduction What is fasting? Fasting is when you deny yourself good things, things you enjoy and go to for comfort, for a period of time so that you can use that hunger to intentionally draw near to God. Prayer and fasting can be an act of repentance and confession (Nehemiah 9:1-2; Joel 2:12-13); an intentional calling out for God’s deliverance and direction (2 Chronicles 20:2-4; Esther 4:16); and most of all a time of longing for Christ Jesus and his…

Isaiah 2:4 Veterans Day Prayer

Thank you for inviting me to pray at today’s Veterans Day memorial service. I’d like to base today’s opening prayer on a passage from the prophet Isaiah. He speaks of the Lord’s promise of peace at the end of days. Isaiah 2:4 [the Lord] shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall…
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