2026 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

Watchword for the Year
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.
Psalm 115:1

We praise, we worship thee, we trust and give thee thanks forever.
O Father, that thy rule is just and wise and changes never; thy boundless pow’r all things reigns, done is whate’er thy will ordains. well for us that thou rulest.

You are worthy to receive glory, honor, and power. You created all
things, and by your will you brought them forth.
The world cannot receive the Spirit because it cannot see or know him.
But we know him, because the Spirit remains with us and is in us.
God’s Spirit joins with our spirits to declare that we are God’s children.
The Holy Spirit is the helper who stays with us forever.

When the Holy Spirit comes upon us, we receive power, and we become
God’s witnesses.
The fruit that the Spirit brings to the lives of those who follow Christ
is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control.

The diverse and empowering gifts of the Spirit are given to each one for
the common good. None of us is useless to God. None of us is sufficient
by ourself. We serve through the body of Christ, and we depend on the
people of Christ.

The Spirit’s gifts are given to equip believers for the work of
ministry, to build up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the
unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.

Lord Jesus Christ, Head of your body the church, we thank you with
humble hearts that to fulfill our heavenly Father’s good will for the
salvation of all, through the power of the Holy Spirit you came upon the
members of our church in years past, to unite them in love and service to
proclaim your name to all the world.

We ask you today that through this same Spirit, you will anoint us to
love you and each other, so that with our words and with our actions,
we may bear true witness to you as Lord and Savior, to the glory of
God the Father. Amen

God our refuge, you hear our cries for mercy. You know our
exhaustion, our cynicism, our sense of defeat. You lift the lowly and
offer hope to the hopeless. But we are quick to lose perspective and
exaggerate critique. We confess the ways we are tempted to give up
on the path of righteousness. We pray for your forgiveness, in the
name of our Redeemer. Amen.

We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer
of life. The Spirit justifies us by grace through faith, sets us free to
accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us
together with all believers.

In the one body of Christ, the Church. The same Spirit who inspired
the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through
Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the
waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of
salvation, and calls us all to the ministries of the Church.

In a broken and fearful world the Spirit gives us courage to pray
without ceasing, to witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and
Savior, to unmask idolatries in Church and culture, to hear the
voices of peoples long silenced, and to work with others for justice,
freedom, and peace.

First Reading: 1 Kings 19:9-18

Second Reading: Romans 10:5-15

Third Reading: Matthew 14: 22-33

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