Prayer: 1 Samuel 3: 1-10

Here’s a prayer of petition and commitment, or an opening prayer of invocation inspired by 1 Samuel 3:1-10. It was posted on the Vanderbilt Divinity Library website.

Prayer
(inspired by 1 Samuel 3:1-10)

Insistent God,
by night and day you summon your slumbering people,
So stir us with your voice
and enlighten our lives with your grace
that we give ourselves fully
to Christ's call to mission and ministry. Amen.

~ posted on Revised Common Lectionary Prayers copyright © 2002 Consultation on Common Texts admin. Augsburg Fortress.  Posted on Thematic, Intercessory and Scripture Prayers for the RCL, Vanderbilt Divinity Library.http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/