“Brought Out, Brought Near” with Guest Minister, Rev. Seyun Hwang

Almighty God, this is Jubilee.

And your scripture says that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

And so God, for these, your people who are gathered here, we pray now in Jesus' name, that for the places where our lives are bound up, God, that you would speak Jubilee.

God, that you would bring freedom, God, to the places within our relationships.

that seem so stuck, God, that they can never change.

But God, you are God of jubilee.

God, for the places in our bodies, God, that seem like they can never heal, God, speak jubilee, for you are God of freedom.

God, for the narratives of our minds that just keep playing on rewind, that keep us from who we are truly called to be, God, you are God of freedom.

Speak jubilee, God.

Lord, for the places and the spaces in our lives where we feel like we will never be provided for enough, God, we pray jubilee.

God, for the ways that we feel like we are not enough, God, we pray for jubilee.

For the ways we depend upon things and people that are not you, God.

Jubilee God that we might be open in our hearts and in our souls and in our spirits to the way that your spirit chooses to deliver us and so God deliver us from the things that keep us from you and God as you speak to your people as you heal your people as you free your people God, then free us to be a witness in this world.

God, free us, Almighty God, to be a witness to Jubilee to those caught in cycles of human trafficking.

God, free us to be a voice of Jubilee, God, to those who are bound and incarcerated, Almighty God.

Lord, speak Jubilee through us, Almighty God, to those who are without the things that they need, God, so much that their hope lost and despair has overtaken God allow us to be a witness to Jubilee in the face of shame God that no one God that encounters us will be able to leave our presence and not feel or see a glimpse of you and your freedom God in this world where spiritual forces in high places move in diabolical and evil ways.

God, allow us to stand in our bodies.

Allow us to stand filled by your spirit.

Allow us to stand and bear witness to a God who is love, to a God who is freedom, to a God who is good, to a God who is just, that the empire God may tremble in the presence of your people who are filled by the power of your spirit.

God, allow our legs and our feet to be planted to be sure in our faith in you.

That nothing, God, nothing we encounter in this world will shake us because we know that there is nothing, nothing that can separate us from your love.

And so, oh God, for the words that you have for us today, your scripture says, beautiful are the feet of those who carry the gospel.

You've brought your son home.

For Pastor Sayoun, God, you've already blessed his heart and anointed, God, his mind, God, as he has communed with you to prepare this word.

Now, Almighty God, allow every place that he sets his feet to be holy ground.