The Congregation at Prayer

For the Week of Pentecost 7 (July 28 - August 2, 2025)

Invocation: In the Name of the Father and of the (+) Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Speak the Apostles’ Creed. 

Verse: Colossians 3:4 – “When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”

Hymn of the Week:  Lutheran Service Book #782 “Gracious God, You Send Great Blessings”

Hymns for Sunday: 668, 782, 637, 705, 689, 732

Readings for the Week: [The readings for Thursday-Saturday are the Scriptures for this coming Sunday.]

Monday: Psalm 100

What gives the psalmist joy? How can you have this joy as well?

Tuesday: Romans 6:19-23

What does it mean to be a slave? What controls a sinner? Who controls a Christian? What is the end result of each? Why?

Wednesday: Mark 8:1-9

Does Jesus ever lack the means to provide all we need? Why didn’t the disciples remember that? Why do we often doubt and forget?

Thursday: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12–14; 2:18–26

How does faith in God effect our entire lives? Why is nothing done in faith done in vain? How does this change everything for us?

Friday: Colossians 3:1-11

Why is it so hard to set our minds on thing above? What keeps dragging us down? Why? What is the key to doing this?

Saturday: Luke 12:13–21

Where do you find your life, joy, and security? Is it in what you have and do, or what God gives and does? Why?

The Catechism - The Lord’s Prayer: The Fourth Petition [Part 1]: Give us this day our daily bread. What does this mean? God certainly gives daily bread to everyone without our prayers, even to all evil people, but we pray in this petition that God would lead us to realize this and to receive our daily bread with thanksgiving.

Collect for the Week: O Lord, grant us wisdom to recognize the treasures You have stored up for us in heaven, that we may never despair but always rejoice and be thankful for the riches of Your grace; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. Amen.

The Prayers:  Please pray for . . .

+ yourself and for all in need (remembering especially those on our prayer list).

+ God’s blessing, wisdom, and guidance for our congregation’s musicians.

+ the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine, for God’s wisdom, blessing, guidance, and provision.

+ God’s blessing, guidance, and provision for the Luther Academy.

Conclude with the Lord’s Prayer and Luther’s Morning or Evening Prayer from the Catechism.

Now joyfully go about your day (or to bed) in good cheer, child of God!

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