| Pastor | O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt God's name together. |
| People | Let us enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. |
| Pastor | Eternal Spirit, from whom stream all things excellent, and in whose sanctuary strength and beauty dwell, we worship You. Lift up our hearts above the harsh confusions of our time, above its din and clamor, and here refresh our souls with harmony and praise. |
| People | Praise God in the sanctuary, praise God with stringed instruments and organ. |
| Pastor | For all makers of melody, who have taught us to rejoice in song and have lifted our spirits in hymns of gratitude and praise, we thank You. Here in this sanctuary may music give our spirits wing, until above life's discords we hear the voices of the heavenly host, singing "Hallelujah. The Lord God Omnipotent reigns." |
| People | Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. |
| Pastor | God of grace, grant that this instrument for Your praise, which we now dedicate, may minister to the strengthening of our faith. Here in this sanctuary may we be reassured that life is not all dissonance and turmoil. Here may the beauty of the Lord, our God, be upon us. |
| People | O sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord, all the earth. |
| Pastor | Upon this congregation of Your people we ask Your blessing. May the outward harmony, with which we worship You, be reflected in our daily lives, in the loveliness of friendship, in the burden bearing community, the Church, and in good will that heals the hurts of men and women and quiets their hostilities. |
| People | In psalms and hymns and spiritual songs may we sing, making melody in our hearts to the Lord. |
| Pastor | Here may the God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing, until we serve the Lord with gladness and come before God's presence with singing. So comfort the sorrowful, lift up the discouraged, renew the faint-hearted, and teach us to say: The Lord is our strength and our song. |
| People | O come, let us sing unto the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before God's presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to God with psalms. |
| Pastor | As we remember our Master and His first disciples, of whom it is written, "When they had sung a hymn, they went out into Mount of Olives," we too, being strengthened by Your Spirit, would be made ready for our difficult tomorrows. Let not our worship here be an escape from life, but a preparation for life. Here may we be so compassed about with songs of deliverance that tomorrow we may be able to do what we ought to do and to stand what we must endure. |
| People | Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and God will strengthen your heart. Wait on the Lord. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen. |
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