A Prayer about Remembering Redemption Stories
A Prayer about Remembering Redemption Stories
And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. Luke 1:36
Lord God,
Thank you for this wonderful story of redemption.
Even as the angel Gabriel revealed to Mary
an incomprehensible promise:
she would conceive and bear a son,
the Son of God, Jesus our Savior,
who would reign on the throne forever (Luke 1:31-33),
he shares a story of redemption to show her,
“For nothing will be impossible with God” (Luke 1:37).
Father, even today, as we rush
to finish our giving and our buying and our wrapping,
or as we miss the days
when we made all those preparations
for a typical Christmas,
press pause in our hearts.
Help us to sit before you
to remember our own stories of redemption,
of the times you came through with the money
when we didn’t know how we would get through the month,
of the ways you healed a relationship
that we thought was irrevocably broken,
of the baby you brought into our lives
after we had long given up hope of having a family,
of how you burst through suffocating darkness
with the light and hope of Jesus.
As we remember,
may we hope and pray again
that you would do the impossible
in this broken and hurting world.
In Christ’s redeeming name we pray. Amen.
Read Luke 1:31-38.
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![Have you ever felt forsaken?
He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:8
Faithful Father,
In times that we feel forsaken,
whether because of betrayal or abandonment or loss,
may we remember,
“It is the Lord who goes before [us],”
and you will never leave us or forsake us.
You are a God who made a covenant,
a promise of love to your people
that you alone upheld.
Even after Adam and Eve disobeyed you in the garden,
you promised to send your Son to destroy Satan (Gen. 3:15).
You promised Abraham to make him a great nation (Gen. 12:2),
and you continued to love your people, the Israelites,
even though they continued to rebel against you:
“For the mountains may depart,
and the hills may be removed,
but my steadfast love will not depart from you” (Isaiah 54:10).
In your most stunning proof of your commitment
to bring your people back to you,
you allowed your Son to be forsaken on the cross,
to die for our sins,
that we might become your children.
Because you will never leave nor forsake
your children in Christ,
when we feel lonely
or exiled
or forgotten,
we need not “fear or be dismayed” (Deuteronomy 31:8).
In Jesus’ faith-full name we pray. Amen.
Read Deuteronomy 31:8; Isaiah 54.
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