2016 Wesleyan Discipline:5785

Prayer for Enduement

5785. (Then the presiding minister (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3091; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:5752) or other appointed minister shall pray an extemporaneous prayer of enduement or use the following:)

Our Father, we beseech You to send upon these Your servants Your heavenly blessings: that they may be clothed with righteousness and with the power of the Holy Spirit, that Your Word spoken in their mouths may have success and that it may never be spoken in vain. Grant also that we may have grace to hear and to receive what they shall deliver out of Your holy Word, as the means of our salvation; and that in all our words and deeds we may seek Your glory, and the increase of Your kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Assist us, O Lord, in all our doings, with Your most gracious favor, and further us with Your continual help, that in all our works begun, continued and ended in You, we may glorify Your holy name, and finally by Your mercy obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.