Pastor Zack Randles
Waterfront Church
Washington, DC
Date of Prayer: 04/17/2025
One Minute Speech Given in Recognition of the Guest Chaplain:
Opening Prayer Given by the Guest Chaplain:
Awesome, Almighty God, we come before You on this Thursday of Holy Week, remembering the circumstances of this day 2,000 years ago.
Facing the agony of the cross, while sweating drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed, ‘‘Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me, yet not My will but Yours be done.''
Not wanting to suffer, but knowing what His suffering would produce, Jesus loved us enough to stay in the garden and later go to the cross.
God, on that day, You truly showed us what it means to be selfless, to put the needs of others above our own. Help us to live our lives in service to You, O God, and in service to our fellow man, in our country, in our offices, and in our homes, even when it inconveniences us.
May we seek greatness through servanthood as Jesus did. It is in His mighty name that I pray. Amen.
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