Dear Friends, 

When we pray weekly your prayer requests, we include the following verses from Scripture and encourage you to include them in your praying also.  First, there is a prayer that you may want to pray before receiving communion.  Author unknown.

Heavenly Father, I thank you for sending your son, Jesus Christ, to redeem mankind.  I thank you that, through Christ's suffering, he purchased a three-fold redemption for my spirit, mind, and body.  Today, I ask you to bless this bread that represents the body of Christ.  Bless the fruit of the vine that represent the precious blood of Christ. (Here pray according to your faith.) 

Father, as you have forgiven me, so I forgive those who have sinned against me. Lord, I forgive and release anyone who has wronged me and I ask you to search my spirit and remove any trace of sin or disobedience from my life.  Today, I release from my mental prison anyone who has hurt me in any way and I ask you to help them spiritually and bless them.

Father, as I receive this communion, I ask you to bring strength and health to me spiritually, emotionally, and physically, because of the New Covenant that was sealed through the sufferings of Christ.  Father, Jesus carried my infirmities; therefore, I ask you to lift from me what Jesus has carried for me.  I receive it by Faith and I give you all glory and honor, in the name of Jesus Christ!  Amen

Prayers from Scripture:

We pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being.  Ephesians 3:16

For the Terrorists we pray that all their attacks would be foiled or found out and that, "You, God make them like whirling dust.  Pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.  Fill their faces with dishonor that they would seek your name, O Lord.  Let them be humiliated and perish.  That they may know that you alone whose name is the Lord are the Most High over all the earth."  Psalm 83:13-18

"Lord, we pray that we all may be filled with the knowledge of your will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that we may walk in a manner worthy of you, to please you in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of you; strengthened with all power, according to your glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to you, Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light."  Colossians 2:9-12