Prayers for Worship January 2014

PRAYERS FOR WORSHIP January 1, 2014
Greeting
In Psalm 31, The Holy Troubadour sings,
“You are my God,
my time is secure in Your hands.”

We have come to acknowledge, in one voice:
“You are the God of us all.
Our time is secure in Your hands.”
Our time belongs to God.
Our New Year, 2014, belongs to God.

Penitential Prayer
Heavenly Father, we confess
that we have usurped Your time;
that we have used Your time for our own selfish purposes;
that we have wasted Your time in idle
pursuits.

Therefore, Heavenly Father, in asking Your forgiveness we hasten to reaffirm
that our time belongs to You:
that our time is insecure in our weak hands;
that we come and go in time according to Your Divine Plan;
that our time is secure only in Your hands;
that because Your gift of time is lovingly tendered…