Join in with this prayer from a worship service on May 10, 2026:

God of hope—not defeat, not despair, not darkness—hope!
We come to you praising you for promises come true,
even though the lies of the world,
that start by whispering, and swell to yelling,
try to suck us into the ditches of doubt.
But no. You are the God of promises come true.
We come to you praising you for your capacity to bring good out of bad.
The brokenness of the world tries to trick us, saying:
‘No, he can’t. No, he can’t. No, he can’t.’
But no. Yes, you can—and do—grow light and life and open doors
where before we had only experienced silence.
Yes, you are the God of hope.
We apologize—we confess—
when we think of you as small, incapable, apathetic.
And so we become to one another, and even to ourselves,
small, incapable, apathetic.
Replace half-hearted hearts with whole-hearted lives
in the footsteps of a Redeemer who taunted death
and stepped on his head—Jesus.
Give us ultra-confidence in your hope—
that we might shine like the sun in the kingdom of a God who owns the future.
All these things we pray in Jesus’ name,
and together with the words he taught us, saying: Our Father…

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