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Opening Prayer

03/26/2026

Our help is in the name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth. Lord, we call on Your creative and redemptive aid this day.

Inundated as we are by the issues before us, we pray that You, O Lord, would come before us to make a way through. Torrential as the waters of decision may be, we pray that You would speak Your word of calm and clear guidance. Enraged as are those who demand attention and answers, Lord, still the roaring waves of anxiety with Your word of peace.

Remind us that You, the one who spoke into the darkness and brought forth the light and called it good; You, who gathered the waters and brought forth the land and saw that it too was good; You, who made us in Your image that we would have authority over the creatures of Your design; You are the one who gives life to all things and has called them all good. It is You who are our strength and our redeemer.

Our help this day is in the name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth. We pray in Your name that You would grant us Your blessing anew on this day.

Genesis 1
Psalm 124:4–6,8

Thought of the Week

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. Those Divine demands which sound to our natural ears most like those of a despot and least like those of a lover, in fact, marshal us where we should want to go if we knew what we wanted. He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration... A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. But God wills our good, and our good is to love him. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.

—C.S. Lewis

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