Opening Prayer
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06/30/2025
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
For those among us who are suffering in body, mind, or spirit, let us pray to You, O Lord. With those who are cheerful, enjoying the fruits of Your bounty in their lives, let us all sing Your praise. For those in this body, and others whose names come to our mind, let us come together as believers and pray over them, anointing them with the balm of Your healing spirit.
Then let us claim the effectiveness of these prayers, believing that our prayers of faith will save the one who is sick, and You, O Lord, will raise them up from their suffering.
Let us also live this day believing that those who have committed sins, if we ourselves have sinned, or others have trespassed against us, that we and they will each be forgiven.
May we take this opportunity to confess our sins to one another and to pray for one another, that as a body which finds its life in You, we may be healed.
In the righteousness we receive in Your name, we pray, trusting in the great power You are working in us. Amen.