Lord, I pray for all the churches who will be holding services tomorrow. May Your true Gospel go forth from every pulpit to every heart in every pew (or seat). May You call out men and women to missions and the ministry. May You ruin Your people for the ordinary, so that they can no longer be satisfied with the status quo.

Lord, from every church may You draw people to a saving faith in Your Son Jesus as Lord and Savior. May they be saved not only from sin but to service and to worship. May they become disciples who will make disciples and may their faith increase a hundredfold as the grow in the knowledge and stature of You.

Lord, as Your ministers bring Your word, may you fill them with Your Spirit. May You put Your words in their mouths so that every word that they speak that comes from You may not fall to the ground but accomplish what You set them to accomplish.

Lord, make our hearts good soil to receive Your words so that they may take root and go deep and produce a harvest of abundance. Help us not merely to be hearers but doers of Your word. Help us not only to obtain information but to be transformed and renewed by what we read so that we might be enabled to obey it and live it out.

Lord, help us never to see church as a building or a location but a gathering of Your people to sing Your praises and proclaim Your Gospel to the nations. May we continue to be the church as we exit the sanctuary doors and until we meet again the next Sunday. Amen.