WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

What Do You Expect? – appliedalliance 

Welcome to Constantine and White Pigeon United Methodist Churches!

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Gathering Together

 

SPECIAL MUSIC  “Better is One Day in Your Courts”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxqHjctAN4

  

CALL TO WORSHIP  Psalm 85:10-13 (The Message)

 

When the Lord God speaks to the people he loves:

Love and Truth meet in the street,
    Right Living and Whole Living embrace and kiss!
Truth sprouts green from the ground,
    Right Living pours down from the skies!
Oh yes! God gives Goodness and Beauty;
    our land responds with Bounty and Blessing.
Right Living strides out before him,
    and clears a path for his passage.

 

SONG  “O For a Thousand Tongues”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjVTdeFvio

 

 PRAYER OF THE PEOPLE

 

Lord God, speak your peace and your hope to your people gathered here in Jesus’ name.

 We confess that during times like these, we tend to focus on the crisis of the moment and expect the worst.  Forgive us for seeing things only through the headlines we read and the news reports we hear.  Help us to keep our eyes upon Jesus in all circumstances.

 Through him, we witness the greatness of your steadfast love and faithfulness.  Trusting in what you have shown us again and again, we bring our prayers and concerns to you for the healing, comfort and guidance that is needed in every circumstance.

 Make your presence known among us today through your Holy Spirit.  We ask this in the name Jesus Christ, our peace, our hope and our salvation; our teacher who first taught us to pray:

 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.  And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.  Amen.

 

SPECIAL MUSIC  “We Want to See Jesus High”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLJmRPvhgdo

 

            Proclaiming God’s Word

 

SCRIPTURE  Matthew 14:22-23

 MESSAGE  “Expect”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEvYkf6lME8


 SONG  “Open My Eyes”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPmmQFl58Ec

 

With a Grateful Heart

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SPECIAL MUSIC  “It is Well with My Soul”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHe_qmo3gX4

 

PRAYER OF COMMITMENT

 Loving God, your grace provides us with secure shelter even amid our times of doubt and despair.  Our lives periodically seem adrift from the refuge of your unwavering love.  Lift us from the depths of selfishness and greed.  Restore our hope and help us to find contentment in you so that we may offer our gifts of our resources and of our works as devoted disciples of Jesus Christ.  In his name, we pray.  Amen. 

 

Sending Forth

 SENDING SONG  “Lift High the Cross”   Chris Rupp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TetkXEiCrOk

 

BENDICTION

 Expect Jesus to show up.  May the love of God surround you, the peace of Christ fill you and the Holy Spirit guide your way as you take Christ’s love out to all peoples of the world.  Have a blessed week.  In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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