Father, thank you for the beauty of the morning, the singing of the birds, your glorious creation that I see all around me. May the light of the presence of Jesus our Savior shine as brightly in our souls and spirits. Refresh your pastors both with the day itself and with the Day Star who shines in our hearts. Banish from them all dullness of mind and discouragement of spirit. Draw near to each of them today and may they walk close with you, closer than with any friend or inner love of thing or experience.
On behalf of all of them I confess our sins of wandering from you in thoughts, desires, focus of mind, practices, and lusts of eye and heart. We are weak and easily tempted, and too often linger too long with temptation. We have been impatient with the wrong things and not patient enough with the right things. We struggle with being content with what we have and repeatedly want more, we look at others with a much easier life and more money and allow stress over our needs to control us.
Forgive us and fill us again with your Spirit who can more than fill us to the point of overcoming all our temptations, fears, anxieties, lusts, inner and outer struggles and enable us today to fully, joyfully, and eagerly serve you in our calling and role as pastors, preachers, counselors, prayer warriors, fathers, spouses, friend to the lonely, the lost and the least.
Father, hear this sinner’s prayer for all my brothers and sisters today. Bless them and give them success in all their pastoral, family and personal endeavors today. I love you, we love you! So be it!
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