Praying Over Our Offices

Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.  How precious is your unfailing love, O God!

How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart?  Cleanse me from these hidden faults.  

You have blessed our school office with people who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.  They are like trees planted along a riverbank with roots that reach deep into the water.  Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought.  Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.  Thank you that their lives are an example to many, because you have been their strength and protection.

Father, equip this office with all they need for doing Your will; produce in them, through the power of Jesus Christ, every good thing that is pleasing to You.  May they keep on loving our colleagues as brothers and sisters, remembering to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!

Let them not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries.  Today’s trouble is enough for today.  Just as the Lord helps the fallen, and lifts those bent beneath their loads, they, too, reach out to help others. Strengthen them in their efforts to serve others.

Take control of what they say, O Lord, and guard their lips.  Let everything they say be good and helpful, so that their words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.  Father, in the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak.  Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees.  I ask that You bless those in this office with the ability to speak encouragement and reassurance into the lives of each person who passes through these doors.

In the precious and holy name of Jesus, Amen.

Psalm 36: 5-7

Psalm 19:12

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Psalm 71:7

Hebrews 13:21

Hebrews 13:1-2

Matthew 6:34

Psalm 145:14

Psalm 141:3

Ephesians 4:29

Job 4:3-4