The Winds of Change

God of freedom, God of justice, God of all creation, we gather to worship you this day.
Yet the speed and the shape of our lives often alienates us from your presence each day. While we are locked in traffic jams, boxed in houses and offices, strictured in traditions and regulated practices, limited by habit and prejudice, we envy Your Spirit’s freedom to move.
Spirit of God, move in your sovereign freedom amongst us we pray. Through human walls and edifices, over barriers of ignorance, around excuses and faithlessness, you continue to touch and transform.
Spirit of Jesus, help us to be open to the possibilities of life in You, even though we cannot yet see them. Holy Spirit come afresh to us this day:
Let not our time of worship immunise us to the pain of this world, to the needs of our neighbour, to the realities of our existence; Neither let it be a simple reinforcement of the status quo:
Give us the courage to move beyond the present.
The Winds of the Spirit seem to us somehow stilled, O God. Remove the barriers within us which resist the dynamics of His presence.
Come Holy Spirit, renew the work of grace in us, rekindle the flame of passion for you, stir our hearts to your presence, your love, and your grace. Our lives are an open book before you, Lord. Speak to us of what you read there, and of the potential you hold before us as your gift.
Give us new sight, new perception, new hearts, that we might be part of your glorious work, that our lives might speak of your presence and grace. Come alive in our midst, Lord.
Meet us in our time of worship, that you might lead us in the conduct of our whole lives. In the name of the risen Christ. Amen.