Intercessory Prayers centered around John 4:5-42 (Samaritan Woman at the Well)
“Let us pray to the Lord” (pastor)
“LORD, have mercy” (congregation)
O God With Us … For those who come to the well alone, for those who sit at a desk shuffling papers, for those who sense that their world is collapsing, for those who have never known how to play, for all who long for someone to listen to their stories … let us pray to the Lord.
LORD, have mercy.
O God of Living Water … For this Lenten time of repentance and self-reflection, help us, as people of faith, to abstain from those things that separate us from you, that we might be renewed, strengthened and refreshed by the coolness and taste of your Living Water … let us pray to the Lord.
LORD, have mercy.
O God of Unseen Hope … For those in poverty-stricken lands whose life-giving wells have ceased to bear water because of drought or disrepair. For those who have fallen victim to the merciless destruction of wells in the horrors of genocide and war. For those whose family members have died for lack of enough water or safe water … let us pray to the Lord
LORD, have mercy.
O God of Ingenuity … For those who have the skills and your heart to build wells where there are none. For those who have the imagination to repair wells with the most unlikely parts. For those who have the ingenuity to find funding for such life-giving water … let us pray to the Lord
LORD, have mercy.
O God Who Shapes Us… For the desire within us to become the hands of Christ. For our willingness to become your vessel, shaped by you to pour out hope and your love into a parched world… let us pray to the Lord.
LORD, have mercy.
O Listening God … For those prayers which we do not know how to speak, and the prayers we make in the silence of our hearts … let us pray to the Lord
LORD, have mercy.
AMEN.
