Thank God for Pastor Daniel and his message on Sunday, “Hope in God’s Salvation,” from Isaiah 25:1–12, from his new preaching series, “They Who Wait: A Series in Isaiah.” May we learn the discipline of waiting so that we may be prepared for the return of Christ.

Ask God to encourage and strengthen Pastor Daniel as he prays and prepares to preach this coming Sunday’s message from Isaiah 33:1–24.

Pray for Pastor Chris to be refreshed during his summer sabbatical. May he accomplish all that God has for him during this time.

Pray for Bob and Diane as they continue their battle with cancer.

Praise God for our women who are continuing to meet in fellowship and Bible study this summer. May they experience the peace and power of the Holy Spirit. Ask God to bring people who do not know Christ into their fellowship, and may some cross the threshold into the kingdom.

Praise God for our ongoing Summer with New Covenant Kids ministry and outreach. Ask the Lord to strengthen Barb Peterson and the other leaders and volunteers. May they serve with joy. And may some people, adults and children, experience saving faith.

Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you that by your Holy Spirit you have united us to yourself.

Thank you that your kingdom has already broken into this world through the death, resurrection, and ascension of your Son, who with you sends your Holy Spirit upon us, beginning the new creation.

We praise you for your mighty works in Jesus, how your power is revealed in weakness, blessedness in poverty, and joy in need. We recognize, O Lord, that we cannot deliver ourselves from the strife of the world that is all around us. We must depend and wait for you with an eager, childlike heart.

Father, we mourn the raging of the nations, their vain plotting all over the globe: in Ukraine and Russia, in Israel, Gaza, and Iran, in Pakistan and India, in Myanmar, in the constant tension between China and Taiwan, and the many distresses, protests and discord within our own borders. Among all the world there is violence, suffering, and death. In these places would you be mightily at work, opening paths for your Kingdom even now?

We pray for our missionaries all over the world. Grant them strength, courage, and faith, to bring the light of Jesus every place that may be in darkness. Empower them anew this day by the Holy Spirit and lead them in the way that they should go.

And as there are wars and distress outside our homes, neighborhoods, and nations we recognize that there are also battles of sin in our own lives. Lord, we struggle against the powers of the world, the flesh, and the devil. We are afflicted by sickness, by frail bodies, we are fatigued from battling against the flesh both in victories and defeats.

Lord, we come now to you acknowledging our weakness, our failures in what we have done and in what we have left undone, and we confess our sins in this time...

Father, we thank you that you have loved us even while we were your enemies, that you continue to love us in our union with your eternally begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and that you will forever love us by the indwelling of your Holy Spirit.

We thank you that you have set your holy King in the heavenly Zion, our final destination, which we wait for eagerly. Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly and establish your reign of peace and everlasting joy over all creation. Return and make death, violence, and despair no more. We long for the day when you will wipe away our tears and restore our hearts, bodies, and minds in the resurrection. Grow in us faith to seize this hope for our lives this morning.

Father, in all this we pray in the name of your Son and by the help of the Holy Spirit.