Opening Prayer
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02/12/2026
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
Holy God, how often we come to You asking for Your protection, Your support, Your encouragement, and Your strength for the day. Again today, we pray for these things.
We pray that You will help us be on our guard against everything that is not of You, forswearing hatred and unrighteousness, and remaining
alert when facing decisions that erode our character and undermine our best intentions.
We pray that You will help us stand firm in our faith, trusting in Your intimate involvement in our lives and in Your ultimate redemption of the many events that seem to test our souls.
We pray for courage when faced with situations that challenge us to demonstrate perseverance and integrity.
We pray for strength, not dominance and not victory, but the strength of conviction, a strength found only in Your righteousness and made effective through Your wisdom.
But perhaps the thing we are least inclined to pray for, and the thing that we most need, is that You enable us to do all of these things in love. For love requires us to set aside all bitterness, anger, hurt, and self–righteousness, and to open our hearts to those with whom You have called us to serve.
Lord, grant us all these things in accordance with Your will, but above all, help us to love as You have loved us.
In sure and certain hope that You will hear and answer all our prayers, we offer them in Your merciful name. Amen.
1 Corinthians 16:13–14