Our Times are in Your Hand – Prayer of Adoration

Our God and Father,

Unto you, O Lord, do we lift up our souls. (Psalm 25:1) Your name endures forever, and your renown goes through all ages. (Psalm 135:13)

You are the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. (1 Timothy 6:15-16)

Yet your eyes are in every place keeping watch on …

Prayer of Adoration: We Are Yours

Father Almighty,

To you we lift up our hearts, our eyes, and our hands. We’ve come to seek your face and glorify your name.

You are the Most High over all the earth. All of the idols of the nations, be they carved stone or the idols of money and power, are vanity and a lie. You alone are the true and everlasting God.

Father, we rejoice in knowing that, through Christ, we are yours …

Fearfully and Wonderfully – Prayer of Praise

CALL TO WORSHIP – Revelation 4:8b, 11

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!

11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.”

PRAYER OF ADORATION

Glorious and Gracious Father,

We come to worship in your presence because you have commanded us to appear before you. …

Your Holiness is a Fire

CALL TO WORSHIP – Isaiah 25:1, 3-4

1 O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from …

The Everlasting God

CALL TO WORSHIP – Psalm 29

Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, 

ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. 

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; 

worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness. 

The voice of the Lord is over the waters; 

the God of glory thunders, 

the Lord, over many waters. 

The voice of the Lord is powerful; 

the voice of the Lord is full of …

Innumerable Company

CALL TO WORSHIP – Romans 11:33-36

33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, 

or who has been his counselor?” 

35 “Or who has given a gift to him 

that he might be repaid?” 

36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be …

We are Not Cut Off

CALL TO WORSHIP – Micah 6:6-8

6“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” 

He has told …

Architect of the Church

CALL TO WORSHIP – Psalm 96:1-3

Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth!

  Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. 

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! 

PRAYER OF ADORATION

Father,

You are the great architect of the church. You have taken sinners of every stripe, washed them in Christ, and …

Another Sabbath

CALL TO WORSHIP – Micah 6:6-8

“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” 

He has told …

Prayer of Adoration: You Control History

CALL TO WORSHIP – Malachi 1:11

11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.

PRAYER OF ADORATION

Our God & Father,

We praise you for you are the God of sunrises and sunsets, the God …