I wrote this based on the phrase, “Our Father,” in the Lord’s Prayer. Please feel free to use this in your personal or public Worship.
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Our Father in heaven, you are over all and through all and in all. All things come from you. We exist for you.
We praise you for all your works, especially in our creation and redemption.
Holy Father, no one has ever seen you, except the One who is at your side.
We thank you for making yourself known to us through your Son, Jesus Christ.
Eternal Father, you loved the Son before the foundation of the world. By your grace you have loved us even as you have loved him.
We love you because you first loved us. We want to know you and love you even as your Son knows you and loves you.
Merciful Father, you did not spare your own Son, but gave him up for us all.
We believe that you sent Jesus to die on the cross to forgive our sins.
Father of glory, you raised your Son from the dead, and you have given all things into his hands.
We tremble at your power over life and death. We submit to the authority of your Son.
Father, you have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
We adore you for adopting us as your sons and daughters through Christ. We rejoice that you have qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Father of lights, every good and perfect gift comes from you.
We thank you for your daily care for our physical needs. Please keep our hearts from loving the gifts more than the Giver.
Father of spirits, what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
We trust that you love us, and that you are forming Christ in us through our temporary sufferings. Please have mercy on us in the weakness of our faith, and make us ready for heaven.
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows, you love justice and mercy.
We want to be more like you. Please help us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to put their needs before our own.
We join your Beloved Son in the prayer he taught us, saying:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
