Invocation - 7/15/07

Heavenly Father, we are in Your presence now, in response to Your call, and You promise to give us rest and gladness in Your Son Jesus Christ. We approach You through Him, claiming no other way to please You. Make this time central to our lives, as You transform our families into Your family. You have adopted us as Your children, and so we go up to Your house with gladness, to give thanks, to repent of our sins, to hear You speak, to eat at Your Table. We enter this Your House, knowing that its foundation was laid at the cost of Your firstborn Son. May our worship transform and shape each of us as we come to Jesus the living stone, as we are fit together perfectly into Your temple, every part each one of us contributing to our corporately declaring Your glory among the nations, Your wonders and Your works among the peoples.