Lord, hear our prayer:
Father we praise you because you stand guard over our hearts and minds so that we dare to speak your name and serve your kingdom. Great and wonderful God, always loving, we praise and honor you. Your majesty is beyond our reach, your fatherly love, so gentle and accepting, is always near. We praise you for your love and truth made known in the word of the prophets, in your Word made flesh in Jesus; in his dying and his rising. We praise you here and will praise you everywhere. We praise you now and will praise you for ever.
Amen.