Prayer Offered for January 12, 2018

            To You Lord we are grateful for another day to live and to serve, giving honor unto Your name. We are thankful for this day and opportunity to remember the legacy and dream of Your servant Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Grant us today the grace, as You did Dr. King, to “discern righteousness and justice and equity and every good course.” (Pr. 2:9). Align our hearts and actions with that of Your Son, that we have NOT “come to be served, but to serve” (Mt. 20:28). I pray for each and every one assembled here today that the labor of their hands would in the words of Dr. King produce, “out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” Bless those here today to collaborate, to legislate, to do justice and to serve those who sent them, upon this stone of hope. Give us hope today. Hope for tomorrow. Hope to live the dream. In Your name we pray.—AMEN.