Dear Lord, we are one in the Spirit and one in you. Bind our hearts and hopes together as we seek to know you more and work to spread your Gospel. Grow us together under your headship and strengthen the Body of Christ, the church. Keep us well-oiled with your Word and equipped in every way to share your message of hope and eternal life with truth and love. May we not turn to the right, nor to the left, but follow your ways exactly. I ask these things in the name and authority of Jesus, according to the good and perfect will of the Father.
“Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” (Ephesians 4: 15-16 ESV)