Congregation Prayer for Holy Week

The Congregation at Prayer

Never worry about anything. But in every situation let God know what you need in prayers and requests while giving thanks. Then God’s peace, which goes beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your thoughts and emotions through Christ Jesus. (Phil 4:6-7, God’s Word)

Congregation Prayer Topics

Pray for the ministry of Peace Lutheran Church:

Ê      That the LORD would help each disciple to be a faithful steward of the gift of life and faith.

Ê      That the Holy Spirit would give faith to our catechumens.

Ê      That each of us would tell a friend about the Lord Jesus.

Ê      That the outreach to people with disabilities would succeed.

Ê      That many people would come to faith in Jesus Christ.

Ê      That the grant requests would be successful.

Ê      That the South Wisconsin District support would continue.

Pray for people according to their needs:

Ê      For peace in the nations of the world

Ê      For people persecuted because of faith in Jesus Christ

Ê      For protection of the men and women in the military:

Ê      For those who mourn loved ones

Ê      For those who need the LORD’s healing or consolation:

Verse of the Week

Phil 2:5-11

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Psalm of the Week:             Psalm 118:19–29

From the Formula of Concord

Accordingly, in our churches, the theologians of the Augsburg Confession confess that we must seek all our righteousness apart from our merit, works, virtues, and worthiness and apart from those of all people and that our righteousness rests only on the Lord Christ. Therefore, it is good to consider in what way Christ is designated as our righteousness in the treatment of justification, namely, that our righteousness does not rest upon one nature of Christ or the other but rather upon his entire person, who, as God and a human being, in his full and complete obedience alone, is our righteousness.

 For if Christ had been conceived without sin by the Holy Spirit and had been born and had fulfilled all righteousness in his human nature alone but had not been true, eternal God, this obedience and suffering of the human nature would not be reckoned to us as righteousness. In the same way, if the Son of God had not become a human being, the divine nature in itself could not have been our righteousness. Accordingly, we believe, teach, and confess that the entire obedience of the entire person of Christ, which he rendered to the Father on our behalf unto the most shameful death of the cross [Phil. 2:8], is reckoned to us as righteousness. For the human nature alone, apart from the divine nature, could not satisfy the eternal, almighty God neither through its obedience nor through its suffering for the sins of the whole world. On the other hand, the deity alone, without the humanity, could not mediate between God and us.

Readings for the Holy Week

Looking Forward to Next Week:  The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ