Nov. 13-19

Mark 4:35-41

This week we pray for:

  • Focus and discipline for students in their studies, for God’s glory.
  • Students for whom the darker weather causes anxiety or depression; that God would gird them up, the community would encourage them, and that they would find the support they need to live well day by day.
  • Faculty Assembly and Faculty Scholarship Forum this week as Whitworth’s faculty fellowship, discuss, learn, present and make governance decisions.
  • Tuesday night’s Taizè worship service with Brother Emile from the wonderful worshipping community and ecumenical monastery in Taizè, France. We give thanks for the honest, peaceful, multilingual and God-centered worship that has emerged from Taizè over the decades and the tens of thousands of young people who have grown in trusting Jesus through their encounters with God through these brothers. We pray for God to bring out the people he wants to the worship event and for the Spirit of Jesus to move powerfully as we worship God together.
  • Musicians offering concerts this week and for winter sports beginning their competition seasons; that God would use these extracurricular activities in students’ lives to build community, deepen character and grow faith.
  • Campus worship this week:   
    • Chapel Community Worship as Forrest Buckner interviews and unpacks our Scripture with Brother Emile from the Taizè community.
    • Tuesday in our series “Good News! Jesus in the Gospel of Mark.” We also pray for Thursday’s service of music, testimony and the Lord’s Supper. We pray that God would be glorified in the worshipping community at Whitworth.
    • Tuesday night’s Taizè service that is replacing Hosanna; that God would surprise students with his goodness, love and power through a different style of worship than they are accustomed to.
    • Wednesday night’s student-led AWAKE outreach ministry gathering; for God to provide encouragement and joy for the student leaders of the ministry and use this ministry as a bright light to Whitworth.
    • Monday, Wednesday and Friday’s reflective Morning Prayer services.  

Thanksgiving:
Loving and powerful God, thank you that you are able to calm the storms of our lives with a word. We acknowledge you as Lord of creation and Ruler of all, but we also acknowledge our need for help trusting you when the storms come. In the midst of the suffering, conflict and unrest across our world, we pray that we could continue to trust in your love and power, believing that you are truly who you say you are. Empower us to live differently, living as calm, beloved and loving children of God no matter what may come. We trust you; help us trust you. Amen.